Talk
Takashi Murakami on Making Art After the Tsunami
Interview by JAY CASPIAN KANG
The artist known for his pop-culture-inspired pieces and collaborations with Louis Vuitton and Kanye West is exhibiting a new, more serious kind of work.
Diverse Holiday Feasts From Five New York Families
By SAM SIFTON and MALIA WOLLAN
Hannah Whitaker for The New York Times. Prop stylist: Theo Vamvounakis.
The Vergaras making tamales verdes.
From tamales to Persian chicken stew, from shrimp and grits to okonomi-latkes, five holiday feasts as multicultural as the New Yorkers who make them.
Radio-Free Syria
By ELIZA GRISWOLD
Luca Locatelli for The New York Times
Raed Fares at a radio station in Turkey.
Raed Fares, a Syrian activist whose video protests skewer ISIS and President Bashar al-Assad alike, is dodging the threat of death from both sides.
The Strandbeests Arrive at Art Basel
By LAWRENCE WESCHLER
The filmmaker Bill Morrison tries to capture the uncanny aliveness of Theo Jansen’s strandbeests, set loose on Miami Beach for the first time.
My Great-Great-Aunt Discovered Francium. And It Killed Her.
By VERONIQUE GREENWOOD
Musée Curie/ACJC Collection
Sonia Cotelle (left) and Marguerite Perey (second from left) at the Curie laboratory in 1930. Each died from radiation exposure.
75 years ago, Marguerite Perey unearthed an element on the periodic table while working as a technician in Marie Curie’s lab. Her achievement came at a great cost.
Cyrus Vance Jr.’s ‘Moneyball’ Approach to Crime
By CHIP BROWN
Lee Friedlander for The New York Times
Cyrus Vance Jr.
The district attorney of New York County believes you can get crime rates to zero — if you just look hard enough at the numbers.
Columns
Eureka
Hunting for the Origins of Symbolic Thought
By FERRIS JABR
Archaeologists are discovering Paleolithic art outside Europe, rewriting the history of human creativity.
The Ethicist
A Survey Course in Campus Ethics
By CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
Educating foreign students, orchestrating group discussions and a professor’s error on the final exam.
Essay
Are We Missing the Big Picture on Climate Change?
By REBECCA SOLNIT
Stories about smaller environmental problems can distract us from the slow-motion calamity that will eventually threaten every living being.
From The Archive
Holiday Meat-and-Greet
Sam Sifton’s holiday feast in 2013 centered on roasts — “a big piece of protein.”
The Secret Life of Passwords
By IAN URBINA
We despise them – yet we imbue them with our hopes and dreams, our dearest memories, our deepest meanings. They unlock much more than our accounts.
Old Masters at the Top of Their Game
Photographs by ERIK MADIGAN HECK
After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign.
What Happens When Second Graders Are Treated to a Seven-Course, $220 Tasting Meal
By JEFFREY BLITZ
Students from P.S. 295 in Brooklyn learn the fine points of French cuisine at one of New York’s poshest restaurants.
Photo Essay
Rise and Shine
Photographs by HANNAH WHITAKER
What do kids around the world eat for breakfast? It’s as likely to be coffee or kimchi as it is a sugary cereal.
Forty Portraits in Forty Years
Photographs by NICHOLAS NIXON
The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest image in the series is published here for the first time.
Look
Let a Hundred McMansions Bloom
Photographs by GEORGE STEINMETZ
Converting Chinese rice fields into luxury villas.
Photo Essay
The Women of West Point
Few collegians work as hard as the U.S. Military Academy’s 786 female cadets.
Photo Essay
On the Ground in Israel and Gaza
Photographs by PAOLO PELLEGRIN and PETER VAN AGTMAEL; TEXT by JODI RUDOREN
Two photographers capture scenes from the most recent outbreak of war.
Look
How a Pair of Twins Redrew an Iconic Photograph With Camera-Like Precision
Photographs by DAVID LA SPINA
With the help of a 30-pound “concave easel,” Trevor and Ryan Oakes are creating a handmade version of an Edward Steichen original.
Look
Staking Out the Great White Shark
Photographs by MICHAEL MULLER
A rare photograph of a nighttime breach.
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