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The Women Come and Go, for Michelangelo Searching
Can you sculpt back the clock?
The WOO WOO Establishment
Crystals, mushrooms, visions, and energy healing have evolved from follies of hemp-wearing hippies into status symbols for the one percent. So rev up your chakras, and don’t forget your credit card
DA VINCI WAS A DOUBLE MAJOR
After a decade of parents rushing to enroll their children in specialized math classes, and university humanities departments in crisis mode, a radical education movement is taking hold. Why not have students study Shakespeare and the quadratic formula? Prepare for a new Renaissance generation
Liar Liar: BRAIN ON FIRE
Welcome to the age of the fabulist. Facts are more accessible than ever, yet charlatans are thriving. Are humans getting more shameless? Or is brain science showing us that we just need something to believe in?
Where It All Begins
Americans’ greatest contribution to fashion is the confidence and ease of our style. Fifty years ago a group of designers, and this model, showed the French how it’s done, and changed how we dress forever
When one 3-star door closes, another opens.
David Kinch’s decision last November to close Manresa, his three-Michelinstarred Bay Area restaurant, didn’t garner much national attention at first, but then, a few weeks later, René Redzepi announced that Noma, his hugely influential restaurant in Copenhagen, would be closing to the public at the end of 2024.
Gods & Gardens
In a land famed for the architecture of the ancients, one man snuck behind the columns and found another Greece.
The Art OF THE Possible
Augusta Savage was a celebrated sculptor who opened a gallery to spotlight the work of Black artists. It lasted three months. Here is what we missed.
THE COLLEGE MONEY GRAB
How did one of the world's largest banks get tripped up by a college financial aid business to the tune of $175 million? Just ask any parent who has jumped through insane hoops to get their kid into good schools and then had to run the most daunting gauntlet of all: paying for it.
If She Builds It
...they will come to Mumbai. Nita Ambani is shaping her city's future one building at a time.
A Seat at the ROUND TABLE
To bring Camelot back to Broadway, the knights weren't the only ones who needed armor.
Bard of the SOIL
Speak to landscape architect Thomas Woltz about outdoor spaces and you will be caught up in a joyful avalanche of history and literature, art and science, aesthetics and ecology. Is it any wonder he oversees some of the most visionary projects in the world?
McMansions on the MOON
Will gazillionaires gentrify the galaxy? With commercial space travel within reach, the masters of the universe are plotting for the next big frontier: starchitecture on the Milky Way.
All About EVA
Eva Longoria was never desperate. She was just playing the long game to become a triple threat: producer, philanthropist, and political powerhouse. Say hello to Hollywood's new stream queen.
The Fresh Cut
Take an old school venue, add a deeply personal touch, and what do you get? A new classic.
You Had to Be THERE
A lover of Paris alights for the first time in Provence and sees how three artists who painted there transformed modern vision and remade Western art. Call it the power of place.
Have We Been Here Before?
A new book welcomes us back to Suzanne Rheinstein's perfect Montecito house, a case study in the California was meant to be.
Skin IN THE GAME
What does the bag you wear on your arm have in common with the perfume you spray on the nape of your neck? We'll let you in on a little secret.
The Radical DIVINE
Don't let the Man Ray portraits and excessive bangles trick you: Nancy Cunard was nobody's fool.
The LIFE of BRIAN
Has being an OG in real life helped Brian Cox play one on TV? On the eve of Succession's new season, the Scottish actor describes the method to his madness.
Why So COLD?
When it comes to the best way to wash your face, maybe your mother did know best.
First to MARKET
Native American legends paved the way in turquoise. Their heirs wrapped it in gold.
HAIL, Caesar!
From Solomeo to Silicon Valley, Brunello Cucinelli came, saw, and conquered. On the eve of a lifetime achievement award, he boils down the secret of his success:
Sotto Voce ELEGANZA
Neutral tones. Straight-cut trousers. The perfect knit. #OldCeline or the subtle cues of the low-key rich bitch wardrobe?
SHUTTER to Think
For Jeanne MoutoussamyAshe, photography and activism are oné an the same.
On the Right TRACK
The fortunate few traversed Europe on trains like this a century ago. It's time for your champagne adventure.
Vital SASSOON
Weary of the Windsors? Meet this season’s new It dynasty.
That's Why She's SMILING
Jackie Kennedy may have brought the Mona Lisa to America, but she didn’t do it alone.
BIG DICKENS Energy
How Great Expectations’s Estella is still breaking hearts after all these years.
Her Mother's DAUGHTER
Pioneering artist Mary Ann Unger died before fame found her. Now her family is taking up her cause.