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JUST SAY NO

Ask and ye shall receive. But even major donors have their limits. A guide to the polite decline.

PANIC at the House Museum!

Can today's tame tastes satisfy the public's appetite for historical homes?

IS IT TIME...

...to reconsider what high jewelry should be? Or could be? A new collection answers with opals, tanzanite, and a history of the world.

Move in with Ralph

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, an American original recalls in his own words his family's first real home, the one that set the tone for all that followed.

What's Her Story?

She knows a great coat is more than the skeleton key to a fall wardrobe. It can also unlock your best self.

FRIENDS WITH MONEY

It may be the world's fastest growing profession: \"advisor\" to a rich pal. But the pitfalls are vast just ask the main characters from the New York art world's latest cautionary tale.

The New Creative ARISTOCRACY

Artificial intelligence is calling into question the legitimacy, and economics, of human ingenuity. The talent in these pages is keeping it regally, outrageously alive.

What Happens Now?

COLLEGE ADMISSIONS was turned on its head by the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action and a fiery ongoing debate about legacies. Everyone including the White House-has opinions. How to apply to college during the most confusing year ever.

Friends & Enemies

When Truman Capote published the secrets of his closest confidantes, the betrayal ignited a scandal that's still smoldering 50 years later. Now a new series explores why we should still be careful what we wish for.

The Body Is The New Face

The lines on our faces have been frozen, the dark spots faded, the flaky cells blasted away, the collagen revived with retinol. Our faces, it's safe to say, are in a good place. But what of our knees?

Reinvention for $1,000

THE QUIZ MASTER

A Manderley for Today

THE HAUNTED HOUSE

It Only Took 60 Years

THE ART WORLD ICON

Vincent Will See You Now

Van Gogh's final works go on display in Paris.

You Aren't Getting Any Younger...or Are You?

Forget anti-aging, we have entered the era of de-aging. Meet the test that has become the new 23andMe.

Ka-ching, Ka-ching...

Went the chain mail. In a sea of quiet luxury, the cognoscenti hear Julien Dossena's Paco Rabanne loud and clear.

[DRINK TO] The Champagne-Sake Continuum

\"The future of sake is the wine audience, Richard Geoffroy tells me over dinner at Joji, George Ruan's omakase restaurant in midtown Manhattan.

[CHECK IN] And Look Down in Venice

While the Vanderbilts of the Gilded Age are best known for expertise in railroads and social climbing, they aren't often credited for their contributions to design.

[SPEND TIME] Alone in a Room with Rothko

When the Rothko Room-which houses four of the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko's works in a snug, serene space-opened in 1960 at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, the artist's wishes were considered when it came to hanging his pieces and planning the lighting.

The New Face at the Frick

The days of the Breuer Building as a museum are waning.

Silicon Valley at Sea

The tech industry is navigating uncharted waters. As anxiety sinks in, Bitcoin billionaires look for their next life raft.

VENUS de Meisel

Back in 1988, New York Fashion Week was the last stop on the international ready-to-wear collections circuit.

Imagine This City

There's a certain fantasy of how to live in New York. Here's what it looks like.

Are You There Rock? It's Me, EMERALD.

The dialogue between the earth and your brooch is the subject of a new exhibit. Listen carefully.

Social Climb...BUT KEEP IT CLASSY

One man's quest to make friends in high places. All in the name of great literature, of course.

MAY THE ROSE BE WITH YOU

George Lucas and Mellody Hobson found respite from Hollywood by restoring a vineyard in the south of France with designer Michael S. Smith. Then they opened the doors to their hidden cinema paradiso. Will the next Jedi rise in Provence?

NOW YOU SEE THEM, NOW YOU DON'T

An elite squad of criminals was convicted for the theft of $130 million in jewels. Was getting caught the cost of doing business or just the beginning of the Great Green Vault Grift?

Duke, Baruch, or BUST

Where you get into college has become a winner-take-all proposition. At least, that's what certain schools would like you to think. But now some families are choosing to defy conventional wisdom and take their chips off the table.

QUEEN of the TIKTOKRACY

As you read this, countless aspiring It girls are striving to capture that perfect alchemy of style, taste, charm, and fizz that creates fame and fortune seemingly overnight. Sofia Richie Grainge shows them how it's done.

Camp Friend CABAL

As one nepo baby recently demonstrated, the connections forged in cabins are intense, mysterious, and totally worth getting grounded over.