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What Makes a Garden a Work of Art? Piet Oudolf Explains.
The noted designer of the High Line has wisdom to share with other gardeners: “I put plants on a stage and let them perform.”
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Newyork
What Survives in the Atacama Desert?
WHEN I RETURNED my rental car at the airport in Calama, I’d driven 1,499 miles through the Atacama Desert, drawing a zigzag through Chile’s far north. The driest place on earth — vying with parts of Antarctica — the Atacama covers an area of 40,000 ...
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Books
Review: In Fosse’s ‘Dancin’,’ a Wiggle Is Worth a Thousand Words
A revival of the 1978 dancical has been substantially revamped to argue for Bob Fosse’s pure dance cred. It’s a joy anyway.
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US
Chris Sununu Eyes the G.O.P.’s ‘Normal’ Lane in 2024. Does It Exist?
MANCHESTER, N.H. — When then-President Donald J. Trump visited New Hampshire in 2018, a typical delegation awaited him: flag-waving superfans, sign-carrying protesters and the sitting Republican governor. Mr. Trump, true to form, seemed most ...
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Newyork
What Happens When an Artist Loses His Sight
A few years ago, I began having trouble with my vision. Shapes became indistinct, colors muted. The world started to look like a grainy 1940s movie mystery, and I was the detective — a clumsy one. I bumped into people. I stumbled over curbs and ...
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World
The Absolute Vermeer, in a Show More Precious Than Pearls
AMSTERDAM — What is a masterpiece? There’s a kind of confidence, generous but wrong, we afford classic works of art. They have passed “the test of time”; they have beaten the suspicions of fashion, revealed some inner greatness no one can dispute. We ...
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Newyork
‘Bad Apples’ or Systemic Issues?
On Wednesday, the city of Memphis remembered the life of Tyre Nichols, a young man who was beaten by at least five Memphis police officers and died three days later. Stories like this are terrible, they’re relentless, and they renew one of the most ...
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World
Your Wednesday Briefing: China Rebounds
Also, Russia’s resilient economy and Sri Lanka’s enduring struggle.
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Newyork
Is ‘Workism’ Dooming Civilization? Notes on the New Pew Parents Study.
This week the Pew Research Center released a study looking at the attitudes of contemporary American parents toward their own lives and those of their kids. Among other things, the survey provides an interesting supplement to the themes of my Sunday ...
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Newyork
The Waffle House Brawl Belongs in a Museum
In video after viral video, fast-food employees keep being forced to punch above their weight. You can find the disquieting energy of these clips in classic art, too.