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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. Stan Douglas is a remarkable, singular artist…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Even if Mozart’s name and the quotation from Beaumarchais’s play The Marriage of Figaro had not appeared in the credits of The Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir’s 1939 film would…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The year is 2018. I am in a classroom for the first time at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York, a maximum-security prison for men. There are sixteen students…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I believe that sometimes, when we look at works of art, we long to recapture lost moments of the past – a golden age when we experienced a profound and unforgettable…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Satire, as George S. Kaufman aptly observed, is what closes on Saturday night. This implies that its circulation is limited because of its low initial interest. Another principle might be added:…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On the cover of the August 4, 2025, issue, artist Victoria Tentler-Krylova imagined the view in front of the Met on a typical summer day. “The Met can serve as a…

Save this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading Food Scene, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where and how to eat. Sign up to get it sent to your inbox. One of the most appealing things about Le Chêne, the new,…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A few hours after Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s death was announced, I received a call from one of my closest friends. I knew before I answered that he wanted to discuss Warner. We…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s a legal concept known as the “small penis” rule, in which a writer who creates a character based on a real person can potentially avoid a defamation lawsuit by giving…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Charles Frederick Worth, the 19th-century fashion designer widely considered the founder of haute couture, was not a modest man. “Madame, who advised you to come to me?” he wondered, addressing a…