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  1. T 25

    The 25 Photos That Defined the Modern Age

    A group of experts met to discuss the images that have best captured — and changed — the world since 1955.

     By M.H. Miller, Brendan Embser, Emmanuel Iduma and Lucy McKeon

    Credit© The Gordon Parks Foundation
    2. Second Life

      How a Novelist Became a Pop Star

      In fiction, Ali Sethi wrote about being queer in Pakistan. Now he’s singing his story.

       By Emily Lordi and Philip Cheung

      The musician and writer Ali Sethi, photographed at 64 Sound recording studio in Los Angeles on Mar. 11, 2024.
      The musician and writer Ali Sethi, photographed at 64 Sound recording studio in Los Angeles on Mar. 11, 2024.
      CreditPhilip Cheung

  1. Why ‘Uncle Vanya’ Is the Play for Our Anxious Era

    Despite debuting 125 years ago, Anton Chekhov’s drama of claustrophobia, resentment and despair feels perfectly suited to present day America.

     By Jon Robin Baitz

    A production last June of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” (1897), directed by Jack Serio and featuring, from left, David Cromer as Vanya and Julia Chan as Yelena. The setting was a private loft in New York’s Flatiron district, where an audience of 40 gathered to watch.
    CreditEmilio Madrid
    Arts and Letters

  2. Missing the Gay Best Friend

    In film and on TV, he was a sign of cultural progress. Then he was a tired stereotype. Then he disappeared. So why do we want him back?

     By Mark Harris and RF. Alvarez

    To accompany this essay, the painter RF. Alvarez, who’s based in Austin, Texas, created two works exclusively for T, including “A Bit of Gossip” (2023). “My mind immediately went to a photograph I took of my husband giggling with his best friend,” the artist says. “I cast them in dramatic, colorful lighting and, of course, had to give them some martinis.”
    CreditRF. Alvarez
    notes on the culture

  3. A Night With New York’s Lesbian and Bisexual Backgammon League

    At the invitation-only art world games evenings, painters, gallerists, collectors and assistants mingle and compete on a level playing field.

     By Julia Halperin

    Games underway at the Valentine’s Day edition of the Lesbian and Bisexual Backgammon League, or L.B.B.L., held at Bortolami Gallery in New York’s TriBeCa neighborhood.
    CreditDeSean McClinton-Holland
    Games People Play

  4. What if Mom’s Not to Blame?

    In a recent crop of films and television shows, grown men are obsessed with their mothers — even if they’re not the monsters audiences expect them to be.

     By Mark Harris and Keita Morimoto

    To accompany this essay, the Tokyo-based artist Keita Morimoto created a pair of gouaches exclusively for T, including “The Manchurian Candidate” (2024), based on the 1962 film, featuring, from left, Angela Lansbury and Laurence Harvey. “What was going through my mind while I was painting them was how a contemporary mother-and-son relationship feels a lot more distant compared to in the past,” Morimoto says, “when family ties were probably closer but could have been more suffocating.”
    CreditArtwork by Keita Morimoto. Courtesy of the artist and Night Gallery

  5. In London, a Rare Space Where Musicians, Artists and Curators Work Side by Side

    A look at a creative incubator where the singer Sampha rubs shoulders with the fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner.

     By Jameson Montgomery

    Caius Pawson (fourth from left, leaning against the wall), the founder of the record label Young, photographed with the residents of Young Space in northeast London on Nov. 30, 2023.
    CreditSiân Davey
    The Building Where It Happens

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Notes on the Culture

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  1. We’re Entering a Joyful New Era of Lesbian Fashion

    Pairing silky garments with butch suiting, women are pushing back against stereotypical ideas about dressing, on the red carpet and beyond.

     By Colleen Hamilton

    The actress Kristen Stewart photographed in early 2024.
    CreditFrom left: Cassidy Sparrow/Getty Images for Ketel One; Isa Foltin/Getty Images; MediaPunch/Bauer-Griffin, via Getty Images

  2. How Female Bodybuilders Became Fashion’s Latest Muses

    An industry long known for revering willowy bodies is taking a new interest in muscle.

     By Evan Nicole Brown

    A look from Collina Strada’s fall 2024 collection.
    CreditCharlie Engman

  3. How Contemporary Artists Are Taking Papier-Mâché Out of the Classroom

    A new wave of self-taught craftspeople are using the medium to make playful, thought-provoking works.

     By Alexa Brazilian

    From left: an urn by Mark Gagnon; a fig medallion by Casa Gusto; “Madonna Inn” by Emmely Elgersma; Bernie Kaminski’s rendering of a medicine cabinet; an urn by Corrie Beth Hogg; a peacock figure by Stray Dog Designs; “Julio” by Joel Hernandez; a vase by Jacqueline de la Fuente; and “We Have the Tools We Need to Get Free,” by Betty Turbo.
    CreditSharon Radisch

  4. When a Job Becomes a Literal Hell

    In an era of continual burnout, artists and filmmakers are now imagining what it looks like when workers finally explode.

     By Beatrice Loayza

    An installation view from Candice Lin’s recent show, “Lithium Sex Demons in the Factory” (2023) at Canal Projects in New York City.
    CreditCourtesy of the artist and François Ghebaly Gallery. Photo: Izzy Leung/Courtesy of Canal Projects

  5. Why Wellness Culture Has Cozied Up to Leeches

    The bloodsucking worms might conjure an era of vampiric pseudoscience, but their powerful jaws are inspiring new applications.

     By Zoey Poll

    An illustration depicting the use of leeches from a 15th-century French manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio’s “The Decameron.”
    Credit© Archives Charmet/Bridgeman Images

  1. 30 L.G.B.T.Q. Artists Look Back on the Pleasures and Pain of Being 30

    For Pride Month, we asked people ranging in age from 34 to 93 to share an indelible memory. Together, they offer a personal history of queer life as we know it today.

    By Nicole Acheampong, Max Berlinger, Jason Chen, Kate Guadagnino, Colleen Hamilton, Mark Harris, Juan A. Ramírez, Coco Romack, Michael Snyder and John Wogan

     
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  5. The Age of Brooke Shields

    The model and actress has three new titles: Netflix rom-com star, union boss and C.E.O. of a beauty brand aimed at women over 40.

    By Jessica Testa

     
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