New Plants for 2025

Stunning fresh picks for your beds and containers BY WENDY HELFENBAUM

The Science of Bird Poop

An expert breaks down the complex chemicals of bird waste BY EMILY HANNEMANN

LIGHT LANDSCAPE, LIFE

David Hockney's paintings can be read as his life story. But a new exhibition at Paris's Fondation Louis Vuitton also shows us just how much he taught us to see.

Time's Arrow

An intimate falling-in-and-out-of-love musical, The Last Five Years, arrives on Broadway-with star power to spare.

Soft Side

Louis Vuitton revives a range of early textile designs by French architect Charlotte Perriand as luxe pillows and blankets

SHORTSTOP SUPERNOVAS

Gunnar Henderson, Bobby Witt Jr. and Elly De La Cruz form 'The Threequel' at shortstop, evoking past trios and influencing future generations with their power, athleticism and versatility

MEMBERS ONLY

A new crop of ultracurated wellness clubs is targeting loneliness and longevity in one go.

ANATOMY of a Fall

Inside the first week—and final hours—of the Harris campaign

TRIAL BY FIRE

Los Angeles is said to have no seasons, but what it does have is what Joan Didion called \"the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse.\" Photojournalist STUART PALLEY turned his camera on this year's wildfires and shares his account of devastation and resilience

Style DRIVER

FASHION-FORWARD SIMONE ASHLEY REVS UP FOR A ROLE IN BRAD PITT'S SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER F1

Inside Man

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's newest play on Broadway, Purpose, is another funny, heady, irreverent excavation into the psyche of an American family. Marley Marius meets its creator and cast.

Heart and Soul

Pierce & Ward designs a stellar, sweeping collection for West Elm

IN THE MIX

MINING COOPER HEWITT'S VAST COLLECTION, MUSEUM DIRECTOR MARIA NICANOR FOREGROUNDS 30 CENTURIES OF GREAT DESIGN FOR THE PUBLIC

SECRET GARDEN

LUSHLY PLANTED WITH ROSES, A WALLED SPACE OFFERS REPOSE AMID A SPRAWLING HISTORIC LANDSCAPE ON THE HUDSON RIVER

Good Sport

A humble pine dining chair made for Swedish country houses is today's hottest design trophy

FOLLOWING THE RULES

MLB has tested the ABS challenge system for years, just as it did for every previous rule change

Heralds of Spring

Snapshots of the energetic songbirds that captured readers' hearts

FUN HOUSE

Moschino creative director Adrian Appiolaza is spinning new classics inspired by the brand's provocative and mischievous history. By Chiara Barzini.

THE FAMILY BUSINESS

Together, Oren and Tal Alexander formed one of America's premier real estate teams, with billions of dollars in sales. Alon, Oren's twin, helped run their father's private-security firm. Now they await criminal trial in a Brooklyn jail, facing multiple accusations of rape and assault from women across the country.

TONI COLLETTE

The actor and Mickey 17 star on travel regrets, acupuncture, and jumping into the ocean

SHADOW PLAY

With the help of architect Kazuyo Sejima, a young couple sets up house in a century-old Kyoto machiya

A fine vintage

High above Manhattan, a sophisticated 1920s penthouse gets a sensitive makeover by Markham Roberts

THE LIFE AQUATIC

For designer Charlotte Biltgen and her family,

IN WITH THE OLD

For decades, Kerry Taylor has been auctioning and reiventing—vintage.

SUPER MOMS

Whether they are laid-back layers or helicopter moms, multiple parenting styles emerge among mothers in the bird kingdom.

IN FULL BLOOM

Talented readers share their snapshots of striking florals

This Side of Paradise

As a model, Gigi Hadid is capable of creating fantasias and dreamscapes-like this fashionable ode to the Jazz Age. As a young mother, she's blissfully earthbound. Chloe Schama considers a double life.

Young, RESTLESS

With Beef and now The Last of Us on his résumé, YOUNG MAZINO proves he's up to a challenge

Other WORDS

VIET THANH NGUYEN explores what it means to be an outsider

Gossip GIRLS

Conservative media has feasted on the fight between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. If you're full of hate for Hollywood, what's not to love?