Celebrity Memorabilia Becomes the Star of Auction Season
As the art market wobbles, estate sales are filling holes in the auction calendar.
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Review: Some Problems With Contemporary Ballet
Philadelphia’s BalletX, a company dedicated to presenting new works, falters with a triple bill at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan.
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Gifts, Gadgets and Greece: Inside a Huawei Lobbying Campaign
Leaked internal messages detail efforts by the Chinese tech giant to court Greek officials and fight an American-led effort against its technology.
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Review: ‘Purlie Victorious’ Throws a Comic Funeral for Racism
Ossie Davis’s 1961 play is no period piece, as a blazing and hilarious revival starring Leslie Odom Jr. testifies.
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A Tasting Room for Black Currant Liquor in Upstate New York
Plus: a new seasonal restaurant in Brooklyn, a Marisol retrospective — and more recommendations from T Magazine.
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An Aristocrat’s Grandson, a Precious Desk and a Storage Unit in Queens
The 18th-century French writing desk that once belonged to Ulrich von Hassell, a German diplomat executed on the orders of Adolf Hitler, had sat for 12 years in a self-storage unit in Queens. The desk had been passed down five generations to …
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Where the Migrants Who Came to New York Are Living Now
From every corner of the world to every corner of New York City, newcomers are carving out communities in unexpected — and sometimes hostile — places.
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How Libraries Are Fighting Book Banning
Banned Books Week begins on Sunday, and the city’s library systems are mobilizing to support the freedom to read.
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M. S. Swaminathan, Scientist Who Helped Conquer Famine in India, Dies at 98
Called the father of India’s Green Revolution, he served on agencies and boards around the world and developed a system of ecologically safe food production.
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With a Love Poem and Acid Beat, a Grand Space Feels the Heat
Bucking the rules, and the canon, Jacolby Satterwhite remakes the Met’s Great Hall with his multimedia “A Metta Prayer.” It draws on Titian and video games.
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