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House of DelftJust to the east of the City of London is the district called Spitalfields. It was always a place of exile. Once the habitat of Huguenot weavers...
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Invitation to a Dance“Lygia Pape: Tecelares” at the Art Institute of Chicago is an endlessly surprising exhibition, lyrical, frisky, and stealthily profound—which is a...
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The Gilder AgeThe American Museum of Natural History’s new Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation completes that venerable teaching and...
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Name the Lost!A public memorial requires, at minimum, a shared memory—a consensus that something significant happened, if not necessarily what that something...
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The Art of Feminine Injury and ExcessLast weekend the NYR Online published “Wages for Housewives,” an essay by the scholar and critic Anna Shechtman on the reality TV series The Real...
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A Sea of FormsIn the mid-twentieth century the early Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca was reappraised by Anglophone artists and art historians who...
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Unwanted ThoughtsIn the beginning was the Word. The trouble came afterward. How to teach the Word of God, how to translate Scripture, how to gloss and explain it:...
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Ideal DetachmentsThe interiors of Andy Warhol’s Factory, at 231 East 47th Street, were famously all silver: silver foil on the walls, silver paint on the pipes and...
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Journey to the NorthBack in the early 2010s, when I was writing my first dispatches from the US–Mexico border and volunteering as a humanitarian worker, I would stand...
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The Creation of NigeriaLast February, with countries in many parts of Africa rigging constitutions to allow incumbent leaders to remain in office indefinitely or...
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The Price of CryptoNone of this had to happen. In the fall of 2008, amid the great shipwreck of the international financial order, an anonymous person or group of...
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Talking to the Sun in Washington SquareLooking after children means simultaneously building a field hospital,a hedge school, a diner, and an open-air...
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Surviving by AccidentIn 1925 a girl named Marina was born in Riga, the capital city of Latvia, to a Jewish Latvian father and a Protestant Italian mother. Ten years...
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The Second WarthogsI saw them from the canal, nosingtheir way through a spare enclosure behindthe zoo. Dusk gray, two of a kind,and utterly unimposing, they were...
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Getting Sacagawea RightWhen spring came in 1805, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark left their winter camp near Mandan and Hidatsa villages on the Upper Missouri River...
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‘Autopsies of Many Kinds’One hundred and fifty years ago, the magazine Popular Science launched its first issue, edited by the optimistic polymath Edward Youmans. Youmans,...
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The Two ConstitutionsHistorians can and do change their minds about interpretations of events and the uses of evidence. We may be dead certain, or even mildly sure,...
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A Life of Sheer WillParis in November. The rain was unrelenting, people huddled in cafés, and umbrellas knocked heads in the cramped streets. Scooters, bikes, and...
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Best GuessesTo the Editors: Fintan O’Toole is a brilliant writer, and usually a sharp-eyed observer of things cultural and political, here and abroad. In his...
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Don’t Blame the SouthernersTo the Editors: Praising the Hulu version of the 1619 Project, Adam Hochschild [NYR, May 25] writes: We hear about the powerful southern...
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Words into ImagesI began reading pieces for our May 25 issue while in London visiting family and friends. This included a trip to Charleston, the country home in...
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‘The Real World Is Not Here’George Balanchine, the great choreographer and cofounder of New York City Ballet, who arrived in the United States in 1933, almost always had a...
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What Is Wildness?Blood doesn’t flow through our arteries and veins by gravity or magic or the force of our personalities. It is pushed. What pushes it is an...
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Wages for HousewivesHousewifery is hard work: taxing, by all accounts; isolating, by default; unwaged, by design. That is until 2006, when five women in Orange County...
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Kelly Akashi’s Ecology of CraftAt the height of the shelter-in-place mandates in 2020, the Los Angeles–based artist Kelly Akashi began learning stone carving. It was partly a...
