Category Culture

Blackpink’s Sophisticated Kitsch

Save this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to and doing this week. Sign up to get it sent to your inbox. In the mid-twenties, the flamboyant girl group…

Light and Faith by Beauford Delaney

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s so much going on in “In the Environment of Life: The Drawings of Beauford Delaney” (at the Drawing Center through September 14) that you might come away wishing it could…

Gentle Parenting: My Smartphone Addiction

Save this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading Infinite Scroll , a weekly column by Kyle Chayka about how technology shapes culture. The other day, on a weekday, I sent an Instagram message to a friend of mine, a New…

On America’s Birthday, Consider ‘Old Things in Heaven’

The demise of Washington, D.C.’s oldest tree invites contemplation on the lifespan of America itself. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Getty Images Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Nearly a year ago, the most ancient tree in Washington, D.C., toppled unexpectedly.…

Memories of past scents

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In August of this year, Tasha Marks was organizing her own unique version of time travel in a windowless room at the British Library in London. Marks is a perfumer who…

Distant local gems

Save this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to and doing this week. Sign up to get it sent to your inbox. In anticipation of summer travel, we asked…

The Lorde stripped down to start all over again

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Lorde is modern pop’s greatest debunker and its greatest mystic. It’s a contradiction that’s permeated her work from the start. “We’re not dependent on your love,” she declared on 2013’s Royals,…