From the East Village Scene to the Frieze Art Fair—Tabboo! Is a New York Voice Worth Listening to, Now More Than Ever

It’s been a huge week for cultural institutions in New York. Following Monday’s Met Gala, Frieze New York kicked off yesterday at The Shed with a showcase featuring some 65…

I Was Born With a Rare Deformity—And It Made Me Obsessed With Fashion

The Mara Hoffman dress was the moment I knew: I would never again use clothing to hide. I was out and proud and never going back. It was a crisp…

Pattern Drenching Is Your Favorite Interior Designer’s Secret Weapon

Birmingham, Alabama-based interior designer Caroline Gidiere says the technique can both bring down the size of an over-scaled bedroom and also make a very small room seem larger by blurring…

With ‘Poker Face’ Season 2, Natasha Lyonne Gets Philosophical

In reality, Poker Face is nothing if not an opportunity for Lyonne to work with her own good friends. This season, she tapped a cadre of pals for supporting roles,…

For Her First New York Solo Show, Antonia Showering Digs Into the ‘Messy Beauty’ of Life in Flux

In the Alice Neel–esque The Waiting Room (2025), Showering paints a nude woman on a bed with a baby tethered to her by an umbilical cord. The woman’s eyes are…

Pope Leo XIV Offers Us Clues About His Papacy With His First Vestments

The papal conclave came to a close on Thursday when white smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel, and Pope Leo XIV appeared on the balcony of the St. Peter’s Basilica…

The Omnilux Contour Face Mask Is a Red Light Therapy Powerhouse

The most sought-after skin-care product these days isn’t a potent face serum or a collagen face mask, but rather the Omnilux Contour Face Mask. Because while topical formulas can offer…

The Astonishing Clarity of Artist Gunnel Wåhlstrand

From a distance, the ink wash paintings made by Swedish artist Gunnel Wåhlstrand could conceivably be photographs. Even as you step closer and let them pull you in—perhaps with a…

Catchlight reveals the 2025 CatchLight Global Fellows

During the CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit on May 3, the San Francisco–based nonprofit Catchlight revealed this year’s CatchLight Global Fellows, who received a $30,000 grant to develop their project and…

The Promise and Possibility of Cardinal Tagle—Even to a Lapsed Catholic Like Me

The first flurry of texts came through only a few days after the news of Pope Francis’s death: “Are we getting a Filipino in the Vatican?!,” a few friends messaged…