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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.
By Arimeta Diop
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.
By Arimeta Diop
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.”
By Charlotte Klein
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Fashion
Jessica Chastain, Kerry Washington, Morgan Spector, Glenn Close, and More Have a Well-Tailored Night With Ralph Lauren
The stars came out en masse to celebrate the quintessential designer’s fall/holiday 2024 collection in New York City.
By Kase Wickman
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.
By Brett Berk
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.
By Kase Wickman
gridworthy
Selena Gomez Promotes Benny Blanco to the Grid
The singer shared another snap of rumored boyfriend Benny Blanco.
By Kase Wickman
my crib
Reese Witherspoon’s Kid’s College Apartment Is Pretty Nice
Occupation: Student. Parents: Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe.
By Kase Wickman
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.
By Jack McCordick
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.
By Kase Wickman
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.
By Nate Freeman
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FROM THE MAGAZINE
A Tour of Daniel Boulud’s Upper East Side
In celebration of his namesake restaurant’s 30th anniversary, the chef shares his go-to spots in NYC.
By Kayla Holliday
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.
By Nate Freeman
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.
By Chris Smith
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.
By Tressie McMillan Cottom
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.
By Nate Freeman
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.
By Chris Smith
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.
By Kase Wickman
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.
By Nate Freeman
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.
By Charlotte Klein