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Why Nefertiti still inspires, 3,300 years after she reigned

One hundred years ago, in a courtyard at the Neues Museum in Berlin, the world came face to face for the first time with one of its most enduring beauty icons: Queen Nefertiti. Discovered in Egypt ...
by SMM ALIPAYUS Dec 26, 2024

Divisive royal portraits and a $6.2-million banana: 2024’s biggest...

Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients for a juicy controversy. This may be why eye-rolling and schadenfreude emerge so virulently whenev...
by SMM ALIPAYUS Dec 25, 2024

Lying down and vomiting between courses: This is how Ancient Roman...

Imagine, if you will, the most glorious festive feast, with an oversize turkey, stuffing two ways, holiday ham, the requisite fixings and at least half a dozen pies and cakes. That may all sound gr...
by SMM ALIPAYUS Dec 24, 2024

‘I became fluent in Bob’: How the costume designer of ‘A Complete ...

If fashion is a language, Arianne Phillips, costume designer on James Mangold’s latest film “A Complete Unknown,” is a polyglot. In 2005, she mastered the visual lexicon of Johnny Ca...
by SMM ALIPAYUS Dec 24, 2024

Why ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ almost didn’t air — and why it end...

It’s hard to imagine a holiday season without “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” The 1965 broadcast has become a staple — etched into traditions across generations like decorating the tree or sipping hot...
by SMM ALIPAYUS Dec 23, 2024

Dress Codes: Why Santa Claus wears a red and white suit

Editor’s Note: Examining clothes through the ages, Dress Codes is a new series investigating how the rules of fashion have influenced different cultural arenas — and your closet. Red vel...
by SMM ALIPAYUS Dec 22, 2024

Looks of the Year: The most stylish people of 2024

Editor’s Note: Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. Each week of 2...
by SMM ALIPAYUS Dec 21, 2024

How ‘The Brutalist’ built architect László Tóth — inside and out

In a dark corner of a mansion in mid-century Pennsylvania, Erzsébet, a Hungarian immigrant rebuilding her life in America, pores over the contents of a desk. Scattered across it are sketches and te...
by SMM ALIPAYUS Dec 19, 2024

Barry Jenkins on why ‘Mufasa’ contains the ‘voice of Africa’

Mufasa’s death in Disney’s original “The Lion King” (1994) is, for many children of the ’90s, a traumatic moment in cinema history. When Scar threw his brother off the cliff, his goodbye — “Long li...
by SMM ALIPAYUS Dec 19, 2024

A cozy history of the ugly Christmas sweater

Move over twinkling fir trees and wreaths, eggnog, stockings and the office secret Santa — there’s a new kid in town. Over the last decade the ugly Christmas sweater has firmly embedded itself in y...
by SMM ALIPAYUS Dec 18, 2024