A homage to a predigital era has popped up, as a crowdsourced art project that lives, paradoxically, on Instagram. To Matthew Atkatz, the college snapshots he kept in shoe boxes in his closet for years raised a koan-like question: “If they are sitting in a box,” Mr. Atkatz, ...
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A homage to a predigital era has popped up, as a crowdsourced art project that lives, paradoxically, on Instagram. To Matthew Atkatz, the college snapshots he kept in shoe boxes in his closet for years raised a koan-like question: “If they are sitting in a box,” Mr. Atkatz, ...
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Retailers, keen to cash in on a Hallmark holiday, have been selling pink plastic trees and oversized conversation hearts to adorn them. Now they’re popping up on crafty corners of the internet.Sandra Di Carlo Valdez looked at her Christmas tree in January and felt a wave of sadness ...
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The “Crime Junkie” co-host, who oversees a network of popular podcasts, has a new show coming, aimed at heating up the “coldest of cases.”Late last month, Ashley Flowers, 33, the producer of more than a dozen true crime podcasts, was racing between her home and her office in ...
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A new Hulu series starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan is a picaresque romp through the history of the stolen sex tape that changed pop culture.Back when 1995 was young, Pamela Anderson and her new husband, Tommy Lee, the drummer for the flashy metal combo Mötley Crüe, were ...
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On March 9, join David Leonhardt for a live-streamed edition of the newsletter as we explore what Omicron signals about the state of the pandemic, and watch Modern Love editors share their favorite reader-submitted Tiny Love Stories. Live Event The Morning at Night Wednesday, March 9 7 p.m ...
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Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.The Mystery of His Words“I love you, sweetheart. I’ll never forget you.” For years, I puzzled over my grandfather’s last words to my grandmother. He wasn’t a religious man, and it was he who was dying ...
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LOS ANGELES — Of course the fireplace is lit at Jennifer Lopez’s house. It’s a rainy day just a week before Christmas, and her Spanish-style Bel-Air estate is decorated as you would expect: pine garland strewn around the mantle, orange roses on the coffee table, a professionally trimmed ...
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In his latest works, the artist Troy Lamarr Chew II has embedded references to the Bart Simpson, the Shopping Cart and many other familiar moves.Last year, Troy Lamarr Chew II spent countless hours in the studio. If he weren’t an artist, though, he might be a linguist, a ...
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Commonly used to describe that extra something added to almost anything, the slang term has a centuries-long history.When you fluff up pillows on your well-worn sofa, or turn your shirt sleeves up just-so, or sprinkle some spices over your morning eggs, you may be engaging in the art ...
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The designer, who died on Jan. 23, simply knew what he wanted, and how he wanted it.Manfred Thierry Mugler, the French designer who died Jan. 23 at the age of 73, was nothing if not exacting.“A complete perfectionist,” said the model Naomi Campbell. “You couldn’t be one centimeter ...
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The film festival went virtual again this year. But that didn’t stop some veteran attendees from having a good time in Park City anyway.When the Sundance Film Festival announced that it was canceling all in-person events because of the pandemic two weeks before it began, festival goers could ...
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It wasn’t until the outset of the pandemic that Sarah O’Dell fully awakened to the allure of the group chat. Stuck at home in Redding, Conn., with her husband and two children, she came to see how a nonstop conversation on her phone could provide welcome distraction, exchange ...
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Otherworldly Beauty at Paris Couture WeekJessica Testa��Reporting from ParisValerio Mezzanotti for The New York TimesWatching the couture shows this week, it seemed to me like every designer had escape on the mind. (Who doesn’t?) That yearning was as apparent in the makeup as in the clothes.Here are beauty ...
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