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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

    Credit© The Gordon Parks Foundation
    1. 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

      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.

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    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

    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
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  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.

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    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

    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.

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    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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  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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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  18. When Jane Fonda Met Lily Tomlin

    Longtime collaborators on how their partnerships formed and why they’ve endured.

    Interviews by Ella Riley-Adams, Nick Haramis, Nicole Acheampong, Julia Halperin and Coco Romack

     
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  22. How to Begin a Creative Life

    We spoke to 150 artists, some planning retrospectives and others making their debut, to ask about the process of starting something.

     
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  41. T’s Holiday Issue

    How Jewish People Built the American Theater

    It’s a history “based on the necessity of opening up and looking beyond, instead of suffocating in, the small space of the self — not only to avoid being pigeonholed but also to exercise the muscle of sympathy.”

    By Jesse Green

     
  42. Letter from the Editor

    Jewish Theatermakers Are in Good Company

    So many of America’s great plays and musicals have been created and performed by Jews. T’s Holiday issue explores why — and gathers dozens of Jewish actors, writers and directors.

    By Hanya Yanagihara

     
  43. The T Predictor: What We’ll Be Obsessing Over in 2024

    We asked 46 artists, filmmakers, chefs and other creative people to forecast next year’s cultural trends. (Spoiler: We’re all going to be wearing a lot of brown.)

    By Kate Guadagnino, Jameson Montgomery, Juan A. Ramírez, John Wogan and Carmen Winant

     
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  46. arts and letters

    Black Folk Musicians Are Reclaiming the Genre

    In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be.

    By Adam Bradley and Justin French

     
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    This Is Our Music

    The folk musicians Dom Flemons, Kara Jackson, Amythyst Kiah and Tray Wellington discuss the complications of being a Black performer working in a genre now commonly associated with whiteness.

     
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  51. The Greats

    In our 2023 Greats issue, out Oct. 22, T celebrates four talents across music, film, art and fashion whose careers are a master class in curiosity, composure and defiance.

     
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  55. Games People Play

    Inside New York’s Least Competitive Bowling League

    It started with a small group of friends. They invited their friends. Now, 100 or so players, many of whom work in fashion and design, meet for games that are in turn casual and chaotic.

    By Christopher Kuo

     
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  58. Saving Chinatown, While Also Making It Their Own

    A younger generation of Asian Americans are fighting to keep the history and culture of the Manhattan neighborhood alive — and for the very idea of what an ethnic enclave can be.

    By Ligaya Mishan and David Chow

     
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  62. Arts And Letters

    Out West, the Gay Cowboy Roams Free

    The frontier has long been a symbol of American masculinity. Now a rising generation of artists are creating a new queer mythology.

    By Evan Moffitt

     
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