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The Art of Getting Lost in Minnie Evans

There comes a moment, looking at the artist’s dense worlds, in a new exhibit at the Whitney, when the eye stops decoding and the mind begins to surrender.

The Anti-A.I.-Ad Ad Campaign

The comedians Harris Alterman and Dave Ross have been putting up posters for fake tech products across the city, including a wearable grandpa, underwear that thinks, and A.I. cutlery.

The Netflix Show That Airs from the Great Beyond

The promise of “Famous Last Words”—which just released its Gloria Steinem episode—is that the show’s subjects can finally speak freely, knowing that the interview won’t come out until they’ve died.

The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long Journey Home

It’s perhaps the most famous textile in the world. But getting it to England required years of diplomacy, a horde of engineers, and a touch of kindness from the French.

The Path to the Lindsay Clancy Mistrial

Both the prosecution and the defense tried to tell tidy stories. But, in the end, five weeks of testimony from more than eighty witnesses couldn’t resolve the central mystery of Clancy’s state of mind.

Donald Trump’s Capital Makeover

A coterie of advisers, planners, and architects is enabling the President’s passion project—renovating D.C. in his own image.

The Principled Cynicism of “By Any Means”

Elegance Bratton’s second feature, starring Mark Wahlberg and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, brings a gangland perspective to the legal battle for civil rights in the nineteen-sixties.

Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay

When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have done, your role is to remind us how far we have come.

Welcome to Career Day

I spend two-ish hours messing around with an A.I. chatbot, as per the company’s new mandate, teaching it how to do my job so that it can replace me. Any questions?

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