Arts & Entertainment

Every June, the Hy-Line ferry from Hyannis unloads onto Nantucket’s Straight Wharf carrying coolers, garment bags and a statistically improbable number of men dressed like undercooked salmon. Their trousers occupy a color spectrum somewhere between faded watermelon and a spectacularly healing sunburn. The initiated call them Nantucket Reds, and they’ll insist the whole point is […]

Slate Auto’s bare-bones EV truck tests demand for ultra-low-cost vehicles built on a new model.”> Last week, Slate Auto, an electric car startup backed by Jeff Bezos and led by a group of former Amazon executives, announced the price tag of the most affordable electric pickup truck in America: $24,950. It’s extremely bare-bones, but its

On the night of July 4, 1776, a Philadelphia printer named John Dunlap was handed a draft of what is arguably the most consequential document in American history and told to get it into print. He set type through the night, printing around 200 broadside copies of the manuscript that would be read aloud at

There’s a constant across NOMAD editions: a spatial storytelling that turns curated showcases of art and design into contextualized narratives. From Monaco to St. Moritz, Capri to Abu Dhabi, NOMAD’s nomadic format has transformed unique historical locations into destinations for art, design and singular creation. Most of the creators exhibiting at the fair resist easy

(Editor’s note: This article was originally published on February 21, 2018.) Defined by motifs that occur throughout his body of work, including targets and numbers, Jasper Johns’s career began with Flag, which sparked a revolution when it appeared in 1958. The art world was nearly a decade deep in Abstract Expressionism when this 3.5-by-5-foot encaustic

Jeff Bezos wearing a black polo shirt against a red background.” width=”970″ height=”630″ data-caption=’After ceding the early spotlight in large language models, Bezos is making a high-stakes play for the next frontier of A.I. <span class=”lazyload media-credit”>Chesnot/Getty Images</span>’> Jeff Bezos may have missed the first wave of A.I., dominated by large language models. But with

The country is hard to read at a distance right now, politically caricatured from afar by algorithm bubbles. The 250th arrives this summer and the official run-up has been mostly conferences and merchandise. Meanwhile, the people who do the actual work of American history—preservationists, archaeologists, descendants and at least one Pulitzer winner—have spent the last

In 1920, it seemed clear to most political observers that Ohio Governor James M. Cox was not going to beat Warren G. Harding in the presidential election. People had had enough of Democrats and were going to vote Republican. Still, a campaign had to be waged, which meant among other things producing buttons with pictures

As America marks its 250th anniversary,  commentary predictably divides between decline and renewal. Is the country fading or entering another period of reinvention? From outside the United States, the answer looks different. Having spent my career allocating capital and building businesses across seventeen countries, I have watched American power the way sailors watch weather: as

Spending the Fourth of July lakeside is quintessential nostalgic Americana, from the smell of SPF while lounging against a lapping shoreline to barbecued bites in between boat rides. Though many travelers like to hit the beach for this holiday, lake getaways often possess a tight-knit, small-town nature that feels fitting for the country’s signature celebration—especially