Life & Love

The New York Philharmonic’s home underwent an extensive renovation that was finished two years ago. But that was only the beginning of the quest for the perfect sound. Source link

A mobile version of movie fans’ favorite stockroom drew hundreds of New York Film Festival visitors eager to experience what celebrities do in popular videos. Source link

The 82,000-square-foot structure on 125th Street will open with a show featuring the artist Tom Lloyd. Source link

The American artist died in 2012, but a new exhibition in London shows how his deadpan-weirdo works continue to resonate today. Source link

At a Bravo-themed brunch, we met some devoted watchers of “Vanderpump Rules,” “Below Deck” and other staples of reality television. Source link

Otobong Nkanga’s installations can seem simultaneously futuristic and primordial, apocalyptic and utopian. Her latest opens at the museum this week. Source link

Her gossipy portrait of singlehood as a celebrity is a sunny contrast to the darker view of her Netflix stablemate Hannah Gadsby. Source link

The fight is over an Egon Schiele drawing held by the Art Institute of Chicago that the Manhattan district attorney’s office seized as Nazi loot. But it has wider implications. Source link

“Generally speaking, if you’re at an event and the host of that event keeps insisting no one is going to leave, it is time to start worrying,” Meyers said on Monday. Source link

As Harvard and a top biographer square off, proponents of a middle path see a tangled life in which the superstar of science was, and was not, a true Communist at the same time. Source link