admin Relics of the Not-So-Distant Past
Stephen Raaka humorously illustrates relics from the youth of millennials.
Can Mozart and Salieri Work It Out?
At the Morgan Library’s Mozart exhibition, Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany dish about playing classical music’s most notorious rivals, on…
Shaggy’s Boombastic Pilates Session
In town to talk about his new album, “Lottery,” and en route to a collaboration with Sting, the Grammy-winning reggae…
Baseball’s Magna Carta Finds a New Home
In 1999, Frank Murray bid in a Sotheby’s auction and nabbed the “Laws of Base Ball,” a nineteenth-century document detailing…
Where the Met Gala Really Begins
Every year, the Mark Hotel is transformed into a chaotic celebrity holding pen, Jane Bua writes.
Péter Magyar Led Hungarians out of Autocracy. Where Will He Take Them Now?
Andrew Marantz talks with the Hungarian Prime Minister about the rewriting of Hungary’s constitution, the implications of his victory, and…
Biking Outside the Lines in New York City
Diego Lasarte on Brian Finke’s photography book “Bike Life,” documenting riders breaking through the constraints of the city’s crowded landscape.
Chaya Czernowin Gives Voice to a Wounded World
The Israeli-born composer’s work, featured at this year’s Witten Days for Chamber Music, in Witten, Germany, includes a howling denunciation…
The Redemption of “Vanessa,” a Neglected Operatic Masterpiece
The American composer Samuel Barber’s 1958 opera was in disrepute for decades. A remarkable new production by Heartbeat Opera is…
Why the Best Writing Advice Is Often the Weirdest
David O’Neill on “three six five,” a new collection of writing exercises by the writer Lucy Ives, and the venerable…