The Art World’s Next Big Thing: Tiny Paintings
In 2016, Jennifer J. Lee, 47, was one of 10 artists assisting the abstract painter Julie Mehretu on a large-scale commission for the lobby of the San Francisco Museum of...
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What We Know About the Unrest in Syria
Violence has erupted in Syria’s coastal region, a longtime bastion of support for Bashar al-Assad, the ousted president. At least 70 people have been killed in clashes between government security...
‘Housewife of the Year’: Contestants Look Back in Dismay
There’s a temptation, when making a documentary about some obviously retrograde practice from the past, for filmmakers to treat their subject like something to gawk at. Can you believe how...
5 Children’s Movies to Stream Now
‘Flow’ During his acceptance speech at the Oscars on Sunday, the Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis (“Away”) spoke about overcoming our differences, a central theme of his movie and a lesson...
Unemployment rate ticks up as job growth falls short of expectations
The U.S. added 151,000 jobs last month, fewer than the 160,000 economists had projected on average but an increase from the downwardly revised 125,000 in January, according to government payrolls...
Trump Signs Order to Create a ‘Crypto Reserve’
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to create a national stockpile of Bitcoin and other digital currencies, an audacious idea that has been widely criticized as a scheme...
Climb aboard Olympia, the oldest steel warship still afloat in the world
Commissioned in 1895, the USS Olympia boasts several claims to fame. The heavily armed US Navy warship helped win a decisive victory in the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898...
Walgreens to Be Bought by Private Equity Firm in $10 Billion Deal
Walgreens Boots Alliance said on Thursday that it had agreed to be acquired by Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm, in a $10 billion deal that will take the struggling...
An Advocate for Women of the Middle East — and Herself
Growing up in Beirut, Lebanon, Lina Abou-Habib regularly faced discrimination because of her gender and witnessed inequality for women, she said. “People think of Lebanon as a contemporary, open country,...
Bright Lights, Bot City: Having A.I. Plan a Dream Trip to New York
A “Friday evening matinee?” To quote the Gershwins, it ain’t necessarily so. But that’s how modern artificial intelligence suggested I hit Broadway. When I was asked to see what A.I....
