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Iggy Pop annotates a song from his new album, Post Pop Depression.
A Tribeca family lives inside their own museum of contemporary art — and opens it to the rest of us each March.
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An inexplicably starry cast elevates the potboiler heist movie Triple 9.
Embrace of the Serpent wobbles, but finds real stories in its detours.
Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo is a brilliant work-in-progress.
The entropic, liberating power of Peter Fischli and David Weiss.
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Fashion critic Cathy Horyn breaks down the biggest shows, from the Row to Yeezy Season 3.
Readers sound off on a Trump Republican nomination, Saoirse Ronan, and more.
Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
A drone store, tie-dye shop, and more new stuff in New York stores.
The pescatarian vintage buyer who wears fur.
Five novelists meet their neighbors for the first time, and nine New Yorkers share their fantasies about the ones they’ve never met.
Llama Inn is all about New Brooklyn Peruvian.
Del Posto’s five-cheeses-and-Swiss-chard manicotti.
Café Altro Paradiso is a contemporary New York version of a classic Italian restaurant.
A first look at La Sirena, the latest from Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich.
The Meat Hook is moving to a butcher-cum-grocery of their own.
The bagel’s unboiled, center-smooshed, oniony cousin is stepping into the spotlight.