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Remembrance: Milton Glaser, 1929–2020
IF THEY’RE TALENTED AND THEY’RE LUCKY, designer-artist-creators get to lob an icon out into the larger culture—the ultrafamiliar shape of Leo Fender’s Stratocaster guitar, say, or Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster. If they’re great, maybe they create two. Milton Glaser, though, operated on another plane—he just kept hitting the bull’s-eye, again and again, throughout his seven decades as an illustrator, graphic designer, art director, and visual philosopher and paterfamilias. He loved New York City and celebrated it in multiple ways: with a magazine, with posters, and (most visibly of all) with the three-letters-and-a-red-heart slogan he created. Almost incidentally, he also changed the way you eat.
THE UNDERGROUND GOURMET - Alternate-Side Dining
With the reopening of New York restaurants, all food is street food.
Peak COMFORT
The triumph of brazenly uncomplicated entertainment.
Cityscape: JUSTIN DAVIDSON - There Are Much Better Ways to House the Old
Why do we Americans sentence ourselves to misery?
41 minutes with … Marc Elias
The Democrats’ top election lawyer warns of a voter-suppression catastrophe in November.
Navigating Hollywood's Creative Police State
Black Lives Matter protests are moving from the streets to the executive suites. This is the story of trying to make my film hashtag—and why I abandoned it in the end.
The City: Pride Was Always a Protest
In a year without a parade, thousands rallied for Black trans lives in Brooklyn.
What Made the Difference?
How one Brooklyn hospital survived its deadliest spring.
The Quiet Storm
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Old Guard is an unlikely superhero film, both patient and intimate. But she’s always been uncompromising.
A Former Garage in Hudson
When the onetime East Village antiques dealer John Eaton returned after a year in Paris, he decided to settle in an industrial space upstate.
Boss of the Beach
For 40 years, the city’s LIFEGUARD CORPS has been mired in controversy—falsified drowning reports, sexual-assault allegations, drugs, and alcohol—and for 40 years it’s been run by one man: PETER STEIN.
Inkwell: Lila Shapiro Critic vs. Critics
Why over half of the board of the National Book Critics Circle just quit.
High Culture Brought Low
The pandemic silenced the city’s symphony halls and grand opera houses. But will the (eventual) restart bring with it a reckoning?
EVERYBODY HATES Bill
Weeks into the George Floyd protests, Mayor de Blasio has alienated his constituents, the police, and even his own staff.
CHEF, INTERRUPTED: Rawlston Williams Grows His Congregation
The Food Sermon chef has a new location, a book deal, and a built-in clientele.
Going Over the Line
In Josephine Decker’s new film, Shirley (and in life generally), being a muse is a trap.
A Leafy Backyard Compound in Clinton Hill
Design Hunting
Inkwell: Lauren Michele Jackson
Keep reading but don’t expect black writers to do the hard work for you.
Haim – Summertime Sadness
Haim returns with an album begging you to sob on the dance floor with it.
The Long View: John Lewis
The congressman and civil-rights legend will never lose hope.
THE UNDERGROUND GOURMET: Ignacio for Dummies
Altro Paradiso’s meal kits are a welcome reprieve from quarantine cooking.
This Can't Be Contained
OVER THE PAST WEEK, protests and riots in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis have been met with increasingly menacing calls to restore order.
CRITICS
Craig Jenkins on Chromatica … Jen Chaney on Space Force … Alison Willmore on The Vast of Night.
95 minutes with … Sarah Feinberg
The woman tasked with saving the city’s public transit is still commuting.
The Slow-Burn Star
With Homecoming and Driveways, Hong Chau is landing roles that match her talent. But the road along the way has been bumpy.
“Whoever's Been President Has Usually Been a Friend”
Martha Bartlett, who introduced JFK to Jackie, doesn’t dwell.
Long Lives
Old people have never been so powerful— or, now, so vulnerable.
“I Said to My Mother, ‘Did You See the Blood?' She Said, ‘I Hoped You Hadn't Noticed.'”
Marga Griesbach was sent to Stutthof concentration camp in 1944. This past February, she left Washington State to take a cruise around the world.
Botticelli's Quarantine
This is the saddest picture I have ever seen.
Cine Phobia
What will make Americans feel comfortable going out to the movies again?