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Construction Zone

From New York, Charles Bagli laments the roughly 380 miles of scaffolding currently in place throughout the city …

Après Moi, Le Déluge

From Paris, Alessandra Stanley looks past the marches, the strikes, and the uncollected trash at the man behind it all …

A New Hope

From Syracuse, Howard Blum reflects on the exoneration of Anthony Broadwater, who spent 16 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit …

Behind Closed Doors

From Oxford, Sam Bright goes inside the secretive Bullingdon Club, whose members include several disgraced British P.M.’s …

Boiled Egg

From Park City, Guy Kelly reveals the strangest moments from the trial of Gwyneth Paltrow, accused of a skiing hit-and-run …

Social Distancing

From the annals of the Internet, Flora Gill dissects the Hailey Bieber–Selena Gomez feud and what it means for the rest of us …

Writers on Writers

From Los Angeles, Stephanie Danler picks Susanna Moore’s brain …

BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Boujis is back! … the corny new musical lifting Broadway’s spirits … Cecily Brown takes the Met … The Outsiders is 40 and its stars have never looked so young … Mark Bowden picks up where The Wire left off … Can Cannes become cool again? … London’s top dogs … a mechanical engineer turned master puzzler … a rainy-day shopping list … an elephant orphan triumphs … Don’t you dare ignore our Attention-Whore Index! …

But First …
Issue No. 194

The View from Paris There is a reason why Emmanuel Macron is so intent on raising France’s retirement age, and it’s not only about budget deficits

By Alessandra Stanley
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Barry Blitt’s Sketchbook
Crime and Punishment

The Man in the Lineup: Part IV Anthony Broadwater spent 16 years in jail for a rape he didn’t commit. Nearly 40 years later comes a precisely calculated payback

By Howard Blum
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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Power Outage

You Mess with the Buller, You Get the Horns With its dedication to gluttony and vandalism, and its inclusion of two disgraced British P.M.’s, Oxford’s Bullingdon Club has a deservedly bad reputation. But it’s not going anywhere

By Sam Bright
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Air Supply

Rain of Thought

Weather April’s showers in slick, sensible style with AIR SUPPLY’s storm-ready array of waterproof wonders and the trench coat that can be worn rain or shine
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Photo: AFP/Getty Images (Marais, Signoret and Pigaut)
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My Favorite Things Known for his masterful minimalist sensibility, the British architect John Pawson is on a quest to make life simpler. Here, he shares the select pieces he welcomes into his own Notting Hill and Cotswolds homes

By John Pawson
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Photo: Gilbert McCarragher (Pawson)
Adding Insult to Injury

Kamikaze in Cashmere She won the case. The mystery is why Gwyneth Paltrow went to court over $300,000. That’s less than the cost of 500 Goop vaginal jade eggs

By Guy Kelly
Photo Illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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Beauty and Wellness

Eye of the Beholder The founders of SoulCycle revolutionized the group workout. Now they’re taking on group therapy. Our brave beauty-and-wellness columnist dares to open up in front of an audience

By Linda Wells
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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index You can’t keep a good blowhard down. Some old familiars are back competing for your attention, but which one is worthy of your vote? You decide!

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Air Mail Jr.

Animal Magic How a baby African elephant, orphaned at just three days old, found refuge in the companionship of older elephants with similar backgrounds

By Clara Molot
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Best
Read Royals Extra Sally Bedell Smith is the author of books on everything from the Kennedy White House to the life of William S. Paley, the CBS… Dine La Residence Twelve floors above Crosby Street, Yann Nury has created a fine-dining haven with the feel of your most stylish friend’s living room… Sparkle Ippolita Jewelry While creating her new Madison Avenue flagship, artist and jeweler Ippolita Rostagno wanted shoppers to feel like they were entering… Moisturize Shani Darden As the weather becomes more temperate, a new moisturizer is in order. Shani Darden’s just-released Hydration Peptide Cream… Carry Marni At Marni, Francesco Risso’s hits just keep on coming. His spring bags have arrived in stores to addictive effect. How are we expected to resist… Savor Layla Bagels In the last decade, Los Angeles went from having zero adequate bagel shops to a handful of delicious ones (Courage and Maury’s… Read Royals Extra Sally Bedell Smith is the author of books on everything from the Kennedy White House to the life of William S. Paley, the CBS… Dine La Residence Twelve floors above Crosby Street, Yann Nury has created a fine-dining haven with the feel of your most stylish friend’s living room… Sparkle Ippolita Jewelry While creating her new Madison Avenue flagship, artist and jeweler Ippolita Rostagno wanted shoppers to feel like they were entering… Moisturize Shani Darden As the weather becomes more temperate, a new moisturizer is in order. Shani Darden’s just-released Hydration Peptide Cream… Carry Marni At Marni, Francesco Risso’s hits just keep on coming. His spring bags have arrived in stores to addictive effect. How are we expected to resist… Savor Layla Bagels In the last decade, Los Angeles went from having zero adequate bagel shops to a handful of delicious ones (Courage and Maury’s…
Anatomy of a Scandal

The Beef That Broke the Internet How the flames of a tiny feud between Justin Bieber’s ex, Selena Gomez, and his wife, Hailey Bieber, were fanned to absurd proportions

By Flora Gill
Photo Illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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Modern Times

City of Sheds How more than 300 miles of scaffolding ate New York City

By Charles V. Bagli
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Small Talk
After Hours

Boujis 2.0 After closing, in 2016, the London nightclub dubbed “Studio 54 for aristocrats and It girls” is back

By Katie Glass
Photo illustration by Chop Choppish Shop
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Artistic License

Fake It Till You Make It Two exhibitions open featuring works by Johannes Vermeer. There’s just one catch—the paintings aren’t real

By Bruno Waterfield
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Small Talk
“Ooh, I think I know who this is from.”
“Ooh, I think I know who this is from.”
The Art World

Bidding Wars Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips are scrambling to dominate Hong Kong’s art market. But are cafés and handbag sales the answer?

By Eric Wilson
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The French Coast

Rethinking the Riviera After decades as a convention town, Cannes is trying to reclaim its cool

By Alexander Lobrano
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Small Talk
“With an average vote of 3.5 stars, the legislation is passed.”
“With an average vote of 3.5 stars, the legislation is passed.”
The Italian Coast

The Genoa Revival The port city on Italy’s northwest coast has a stunning, fresco-clad history, and big plans for the future

By Sheila Pierce
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Art

Death Becomes Her Classic Hollywood movies have played a central, if ambiguous, role in the paintings of Cecily Brown

By Patrick Monahan
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Theater

Hoedown on Broadway An unheralded new musical is bringing crowds flocking back to New York’s theaterland

By Michael Riedel
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Books

Susanna Moore Isn’t Done Running Away The author has never been one to stay put. Her new book is no exception

By Stephanie Danler
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The Wiener Way

London’s Top Dog The goldendoodle moment has passed. Now it’s all about the chocolate dapple dachshund

By Daisy Dawnay
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Listen

Where to Go This Summer On this week’s podcast, Alexander Lobrano reveals a new jewel on the French Riviera

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Close-up

Sam Ezersky The twentysomething mechanical engineer behind The New York Times’s Letter Boxed word game wants the solutions to “feel fun and human”

By Matthew Gurewitsch
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Open Book

Staying Gold A new book of rare and previously unseen photos marks the 40th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders, based on the 1967 novel and starring Hollywood stars in their early years, from Tom Cruise to Diane Lane to Patrick Swayze

By Elena Clavarino
Photographs by David Burnett
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The cast of 1983’s The Outsiders, photographed by David Burnett. Clockwise from top left, Tom Cruise, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, and Matt Dillon.
Scenes from the film set, March 1982.
Top, Diane Lane, who starred as Cherry Valance in the film; above, Lowe and Howell in between scenes.
Howell as Ponyboy Curtis.
Cruise as Steve Randle.
Top, Lane and Howell; above, Lowe as Sodapop Curtis.
“For most of them, it was their first movie, and they were feeling their way around,” says photographer David Burnett of the young actors. “Yet in the pictures, they look like they belong—they have attitude.”
Director Francis Ford Coppola on set with Howell.
Lane was 18 when she was cast in the film.
Swayze on set. Four years later, he’d star in Dirty Dancing.
Dillon and Cruise were 19 and 21 when the film was shot.
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Towering Talent

Sight Majeure On the centenary of his death, the French engineer behind the Eiffel Tower is finally receiving an honor befitting his accomplishments

By Adam Sage
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Photography

Creative Matriarchs Far from rock ’n’ roll, a new exhibition of Mary McCartney’s photographs in London is innocent and intimate

By Joseph Bullmore
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Small Talk
“Women! Am I right?”
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Don’t Miss
London

Meet the Rossettis: Tate Britain takes a closer look at the radicalism and myths surrounding the Rossetti generation … …

Paris

Hair to the throne: the Musée des Arts Décoratifs explores the icons and iconography of hair in history, from the Carita sisters and Alexandre de Paris to Alexander McQueen and Martin Margiela …

Düsseldorf

All things Adnan: the work of the late Lebanese painter and poet Etel Adnan goes on view at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen …

Washington, D.C.

On point: the Kennedy Center celebrates the return of the Joffrey with a new ballet based on Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina … …

Online

Rach to Rach: Yuja Wang’s Rachmaninoff marathon at the L.A. Philharmonic streams on Stage+ …

Highlight
The V&A Dundee’s new exhibition tells the history of tartan through 300 objects, including a dress from Scottish designer Charles Jeffrey Loverboy’s 2022 spring collection, left, and a table dressed with a kilt.

All Tarted Up

With Scotland’s position inside the U.K. increasingly uncertain, could the opening of “Tartan,” at the V&A Dundee, be more timely? Is the museum consciously blowing on the coals of the “Good Old Cause”? This monumental exhibition, on view through January 14, 2024, brings together more than 300 objects from over 80 lenders worldwide, including a wonderful Hillman Imp Caledonian car. Poetic and political, this textile has clout. READ ON

The V&A Dundee’s new exhibition tells the history of tartan through 300 objects, including a dress from Scottish designer Charles Jeffrey Loverboy’s 2022 spring collection, left, and a table dressed with a kilt. Read On
Book Reviews
Juli Weiner On

Romantic Comedy

by Curtis Sittenfeld
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Malcolm Mackay On

Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader

by Mark Bowden
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The Perfect Ending

Carine Roitfeld

The editor of CR Fashion Book answers 44 of life’s most pressing questions
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Andrea Ferolla’s Sketchbook
Spring is contagious.
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