Arts & Entertainment

In a radical collision of high art and leather-bound taboo, a cache of never-before-seen Robert Mapplethorpe S&M photographs has surfaced in New York City, bringing with it all the swagger and controversy that defined the photographer’s boundary-shattering legacy. Made public for the first time by the Kinsey Institute, the trove of test prints offers a […]

The small color TV that graced the Bank Street apartment John Lennon and Yoko Ono shared in Greenwich Village from 1971 to 1973 was perched at the end of the bed, a few inches from their toes. We know this not just from historical photographs but because in the new documentary One to One: John & Yoko, the

There’s a shift happening in the world of luxury. The wealthiest individuals—those who’ve spent decades accumulating everything money can buy—are no longer interested in more. What they want now is better. More refined, more personal, more rare. And nowhere is this more evident than in the rise of the high-design game room. We’ve seen it

Opera at the Met may mean expensively lavish stagings with the world’s biggest stars, but that’s not all you’ll find at Lincoln Center. Running there now concurrently are revivals of two Mozart masterpieces that amply demonstrate that the Met can also deliver wonderfully entertaining ensemble operas. That shouldn’t suggest that their casts don’t include superior

Despite mounting economic and geopolitical turbulence, this year’s just-released Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report delivered a cautiously optimistic message: the global art market might be recalibrating, but it’s not collapsing. While overall figures reflect a period of correction, the sector is broadening its base at the lower and mid-price tiers and drawing in

Wall Street titans had been oddly silent about Trump tariffs—until they became real. Amid market turmoil brought on by the President’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, a growing trickle of prominent bank CEOs and investors are raising the alarm on how these levies could cause irreparable harm to the global economy. Even established Trump supporters, such as

Over the past week, the “Ghiblification” trend has swept the internet, with celebrities, tech leaders, and even the White House generating images in the style of Japan’s Studio Ghibli using OpenAI’s latest tool. Hayao Miyazaki, the reclusive mastermind behind the iconic animation style, has yet to comment publicly on this A.I.-driven development. But based on

London-based Iranian artist Fa Razavi paints astonishing sculptural bodies and a desire to interrogate the gaze and limitations we impose on them. “Opera Rose,” now on at Palo Gallery and curated by Kollectiv Collective, includes a succession of narrative images contained behind a chromatic veil of haunting hues. These include baby pink and eerie viridian

With concerns around climate change growing rapidly, sustainability has begun to—finally—take up more space in the thoughts of both consumers and producers across the culinary industry. Though greenwashing has become all too common in hospitality, SoCal is home to a handful of pioneering restaurants who pride themselves on being eco-conscious, despite the added costs that

Materials, media and their modes of presentation are inherently embedded with political and cultural values shaped by traditions and ideologies that have accumulated over time. These values are, in turn, infused within the systems of production and circulation in which such materials and media participate. The choice of materials, the techniques employed in their creation