The blinds stayed closed. Vivian Panka opened them slightly to make the video, then closed them again. She had not left her house since the trouble started. Fires in the street. Planned protests outside the theatre. The first Black actress to play Regina George in the Mean Girls UK tour, speaking into her phone on […]
The scissors moved before the camera did. A young German woman, 26 years old, bent over a glass plate lit from below. Her hands adjusted jointed cardboard figures—princes, sorcerers, flying horses—one frame at a time. Above her, a camera mounted on a tall scaffold shot downward through multiple layers of glass. On one layer, the […]
The columns do not look like columns. They branch upward like trees, splitting at angles that feel vegetal rather than architectural. Stand in the nave of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família at the right hour—oranges and reds bleeding through the western stained glass—and the weight above you seems to disappear. It does not disappear. Each tree-column carries […]
The columns sat in a shallow pond in the Hudson Valley, murky with local soil and water, pulsing with life too small to see. Acid green. Coffee brown. Layers forming over two years in a heated barn under UV lights. Anicka Yi had not painted them. She had not sculpted them. She had set the […]
Brent crude jumped $2 in minutes. The number on the screen hit $94.16 before settling. The trigger was not a strike. It was a Truth Social post. Donald Trump wrote that the US would hit Iran “very hard tonight” and would “assume total control” of Iran’s oil and gas markets. Then he named the target: […]
The cap went on first. Custom-fitted. Maroon. Yankees. Everything else was built around it: pleated trousers, a slouchy graphic t-shirt, a cropped Chanel tweed jacket in multi-stripe. Teyana Taylor sat onstage at Spring Studios for a conversation about women in film, and the outfit did what her outfits always do. It refused to choose. The […]
The woman stood in the Sky Room for a long time. Not taking photos. Not checking her phone. Just looking out at the South Side, the West Side, the blue blade of Lake Michigan. Above her, Idris Khan’s artwork pulled words from Obama’s Selma speech upward into a rim of light. She didn’t read them. […]
The library at Sunnydale High was never supposed to be sacred. It was a set—shelves of fake books, a cage for vampires in the back, the faint hum of California studio lights where the English damp should have been. But for millions of people who grew up inside “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” that room felt […]
The fireworks detonated above Villa Valguarnera just after midnight. Visible across Palermo. Carl Cox, Martin Garrix, David Guetta, and Peggy Gou played past the villa’s standard curfew. Elton John had already serenaded the couple with “Your Song.” The 18th-century palace—once a mafia hideout, now owned by a writer-princess who translated Tolkien and counts Mick Jagger […]
The dick jokes land first. Then the puppet is doing drugs. Then the runaway train barreling toward a nuclear power plant, a rescue-dog home, Laurie Metcalf’s house, and a group of Make-A-Wish children. Somewhere in there, RuPaul plays the president of the United States. The whole thing cost 19 days to shoot and runs 92 […]
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