A somber gathering of artists and illustrators took place at a gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan on a recent Friday evening. They were there for a Wright auction preview of the drawings and personal belongings of Jason Polan, the celebrated New York street artist who died ...
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The actress will return to the event for the first time in five years, this time as a host.“The designers must fight to the death to dress you,” Kelly Ripa told Zendaya, the 27-year-old actress, as they discussed her preparation for this year’s Met Gala on a recent ...
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The tiny cabin, one of the few extant examples of a popular 1970s design, had no heat or toilet. But it was theirs for $65,000.One weekend in 2021, Gemma Warren was doing what she did every weekend: sitting over coffee in her home in Tulum, Mexico, combing through ...
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Wiktor Freifeld lived in Tusia Dabrowska’s apartment when she left Warsaw for New York. A deep friendship soon followed.While living in Warsaw in 2009, Tusia Dabrowska was always on the hunt for potential creative collaborators. Friends suggested that she meet Wiktor Maria Freifeld, who, like her, was Polish ...
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Maddie Whittle and Charles Bramesco met through the New York film scene, connecting over a shared sensibility (and an affinity for the horror genre).Madeline Claire Whittle and Charles Norton Bramesco first hit it off over a horror movie — not as theatergoers, but as judges serving on a ...
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My daughter and I looked at a book together, posed for a picture, and then she left. Forever.Last December, a couple of weeks before Christmas, I left my water bottle at the gym. As we drove home, my husband said, “Do you want to go back?”“No,” I said ...
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The writers behind Hate Reads, a pop-up newsletter for airing grievances and pet peeves, got up on their soap boxes.“What’s Hate Reads?” a patron at The River, a bar on Bayard Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown, asked early on Wednesday evening. She and a friend had no idea they ...
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Vanessa Williams’s many ensembles in a music video for her new song, “Legs (Keep Dancing),” evoke her knack for portraying a diva with style.It might not come as a surprise that Vanessa Williams, in the music video for her new single, “Legs (Keep Dancing),” can be seen showing ...
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Tactics to convince people to buy less aren’t working. A quirky new documentary by Patagonia takes a different approach.Here is an inconvenient truth. For all the noise made by activists, journalists, politicians and even celebrities about the clothing industry destroying the planet, shoppers aren’t listening.The information is out ...
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Which brother is Chris Hemsworth, again? Meet the co-chairs of the party of the year.Each spring a handful of attractive celebrities who do not seem as if they would hang out in any other situation are selected as co-chairs of the Met Gala, the black-tie blowout that is ...
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Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Reva Goldberg, Emily Lang and Dan Powell, Diane Wong, Pat McCusker, Rowan Niemisto and Listen and follow Modern Love
Apple Podcasts | Spotify| Amazon Music“I think that was a mistake I made in past relationships, where I was like, I’ve got it. Then this tender ...
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As fans and collectors clamor for autographs, Major League Baseball players have built a network — and an etiquette — for signing things for each other.One recent morning in Phoenix, Juan Soto, a star outfielder for the New York Yankees, was watching TV in the visiting clubhouse when ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Fortunes ToldMy wife died in 1991. Her best friend and I grew close in mourning. That blossomed into love. But was it a good match? And so soon, just months later? After a Chinese dinner, we ...
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With the help of Joe Rogan, a social media trend with staying power emerged from a 2018 book, “The Carnivore Diet.”“Girl dinner” this is not.In a social media trend that won’t stop, ravenous meat eaters, mostly men, show themselves chomping on rib-eye steaks, bacon and innards.In a recent ...
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