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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.
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.
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 filmmaker Bill Morrison tries to capture the uncanny aliveness of Theo Jansen’s strandbeests, set loose on Miami Beach for the first time.
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.
The district attorney of New York County believes you can get crime rates to zero — if you just look hard enough at the numbers.
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.
Archaeologists are discovering Paleolithic art outside Europe, rewriting the history of human creativity.
Educating foreign students, orchestrating group discussions and a professor’s error on the final exam.
Stories about smaller environmental problems can distract us from the slow-motion calamity that will eventually threaten every living being.
Sam Sifton’s holiday feast in 2013 centered on roasts — “a big piece of protein.”
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.
After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign.
Students from P.S. 295 in Brooklyn learn the fine points of French cuisine at one of New York’s poshest restaurants.
What do kids around the world eat for breakfast? It’s as likely to be coffee or kimchi as it is a sugary cereal.
The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest image in the series is published here for the first time.
Converting Chinese rice fields into luxury villas.
Few collegians work as hard as the U.S. Military Academy’s 786 female cadets.
Two photographers capture scenes from the most recent outbreak of war.
With the help of a 30-pound “concave easel,” Trevor and Ryan Oakes are creating a handmade version of an Edward Steichen original.
A rare photograph of a nighttime breach.
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