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Fab 5 Freddy, Antwaun Sargent, Nicola Vassell, and More Celebrate the Kitchen at Their Annual Spring Gala

With a centennial tribute to jazz legend Max Roach, a performance by Eartheater, and appearances by art world darlings, the evening captured the institution’s singular presence in New York.
CULTURE

Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, Colin Kaepernick, Usher, and More Gather to Celebrate Art and Activism at the Annual Gordon Parks Foundation Gala

Held in honor of Gordon Parks’s continued legacy through the Foundation, the glittering event included a historic auction, awards, and star-studded crossovers.
Politics

“Everything Felt Really Dystopian”: Columbia Student Journalists on the Front Lines of Gaza Protests

They’ve gotten a crash course in breaking news, capturing the Hamilton Hall occupation and the NYPD’s crackdown, while surviving on pizza and operating on little sleep. The students, says one professor, have “become professional journalists reporting on the biggest story right now, not only in the city, but in the nation.”
DEEP CURRENTS

“The Art Was My Escape”: Lee Quiñones, Subway Graffiti Pioneer, Gets the Mega-Monograph Treatment

A new book offers a full-color celebration of a five-decade career that exploded out of the underground to encompass gallery shows with Fab 5 Freddy and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a starring role in the cult film Wild Style, and more.
a swiftly tilting planet

Taylor Swift Spotted Sliding Into Recording Studio: Is New Music Coming?

This isn’t her first time at Electric Lady Studios in recent months, either. 
gridworthy

Selena Gomez Promotes Benny Blanco to the Grid

The singer shared another snap of rumored boyfriend Benny Blanco.
my crib

Reese Witherspoon’s Kid’s College Apartment Is Pretty Nice

Occupation: Student. Parents: Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe.
BIG APPLE CIRCUS

FBI Seizes Eric Adams’s Phones, iPad As 2021 Campaign Fundraising Investigation Escalates

Federal investigators are digging to see if the NYC mayor’s campaign received illegal foreign donations from Turkey courtesy of a Brooklyn construction company.
paws for reflection

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Hold Hands, World's Attention

You've got to hand it to them, they seemed to have fun in New York this weekend.
True Colors

Jay Jopling’s White Cube Opens in New York. What Took Him So Long?

The normally press-shy gallerist, who has been synonymous with the London art market since he helped usher in the Young British Artists in the 1990s, talks about his new Upper East Side outpost. 
True Colors

The Armory Show Enters a New Era in an Uncertain Art Market

The New York standby, under new ownership, was one of several stops on a packed art world calendar as galleries continued to weather an up-and-down season for sellers.
Politics

The Political Wrangling Behind the Tragic Images of Migrants Stranded in Manhattan

Eric Adams is dialing up the pressure on Washington as New York City scrambles to address an influx of migrants.
It’s Like That

Fifty Years of Hip-Hop in a World That Could Not Exist Without It

The musical genre of sociopolitical change, cultural transformation, excess, and fabulousness enters its next half century.
true colors

The Tribeca Festival Was the Eric Adams and Robert De Niro Show—Whatever the Air Quality

What we learned watching the mayor watching the celebs amid air quality alerts and amber atmospheres at the annual (and evolving) rite of downtown spring. Plus, word from the sales at OG Art Basel, the fate of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s marital bed, and more in this week’s column.
Politics

Colliding Crises Are Testing Mayor Eric Adams’s Law-and-Order Agenda

This month, New York City’s mayor has been faced with Jordan Neely’s killing and the migrant crisis. Adams’s response has delivered Republicans with a juicy sound bite, and may make him politically vulnerable.
screamin' and sheeran

Ed Sheeran Celebrates Court Win In NYC By Stomping on a Volvo

The British singer played a mini-concert in the streets of SoHo on Friday. 
True Colors

Hamilton Leithauser on the Walkmen Reunion and Doing His Best Songwriting in Museums

As the erstwhile anti-nostalgist and his bandmates gear up for a tour none of them saw coming, Leithauser was ready to reflect on middle age and a bygone New York over cocktails at The Carlyle. Plus, inside The Met’s Lagerfeld exhibit and more in this week’s column.
Media

The Trump Arraignment Media Circus Is Underway 

As satellite trucks clog Lower Manhattan and the press corps parachute in, veteran court reporters talk to Vanity Fair about coverage concerns, from nabbing a seat to accessing documents, and the historic nature of the proceedings. “It’s the biggest case in my career,” says one.