Sitor Senghor shows him wearing a white button-down shirt and round glasses, standing against a textured grayish wall, looking directly at the camera with a calm and confident expression; the image is credited to photographer Antoine Tempé.” width=”970″ height=”869″ data-caption=’Sitor Senghor has been plans for AKAA and the market for African art in Paris. <span […]
Photo: Todd Rosenberg/Getty Images As I watched the Kansas City Chiefs clinch their third consecutive Super Bowl berth last weekend — their fifth of the Patrick Mahomes era — the immortal words of Howard Beale, the beleaguered anchorman of the 1976 film Network, echoed loudly: “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to
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Photo: Kenny Holston/Getty Images The world’s richest man may now have access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States. According to a New York Times report, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday granted Elon Musk and his minions at the faux-agency DOGE full access to the Treasury’s massive federal payment
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Photo: Thomas Hengge/Anadolu via Getty Images On Friday night, northeast Philadelphia was rocked by the high-speed impact of a medevac jet that nose-dived into a busy avenue shortly after takeoff from North Philadelphia Airport. Having climbed to an altitude of 1650 feet, the plane plummeted nearly vertically at more than 200 mph. Heavily loaded with
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Although French painter Marie Laurencin achieved significant commercial success during her lifetime, her name slipped into relative obscurity after her death in the late 1950s. Deeply embedded in the Parisian cultural scene, she carved out her own space within avant-garde circles, asserting a singular artistic voice amid the city’s most influential movements. From her twenties
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The space industry started off 2025 with a bang. January brought the dual launch of lunar landers from the Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and Japan’s iSpace. Sent into orbit on Jan. 15 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, Firefly is expected to land on the moon by March, while iSpace’s spacecraft
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Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images One of the great anomalies of American politics is that Donald Trump, who has been elected to the presidency twice and came very close to victory a third time, has been pretty regularly unpopular since he first came down that New York escalator in 2015. The day he was elected
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