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Julie Brener Davich
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May 1, 2024
Gehry’s Boy From Biloxi
Unheralded during his lifetime, ceramicist George Ohr later drew praise from museum curators (and Warhol and Johns) for his abstract expressionist teapots and vases. This week, several of his works from the Donald Hecht collection are up for auction.
Leigh Ann Caldwell
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May 1, 2024
Johnson Loses the Epstein Caucus
The House speaker’s strategy to bury the Epstein drama by sending Congress home for the summer has only delayed a reckoning that Trump himself set into motion. The defection of a few key Republican members shows the problem isn’t going away.
William D. Cohan
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May 1, 2024
The Epstein Files Backdoor
While Republicans have fled Washington for the summer in the hopes that the Epstein scandal goes away, attorney Dan Novack’s FOIA battle with the F.B.I. has been wending its way through the courts. This fall, we may finally get some answers.
Sarah Shapiro
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May 1, 2024
The Row’s Scarcity Strategy & A Nightgown Renaissance
News and notes on why the internet lost its marbles over The Row’s $620 Ama slides; the brands reinventing the nightwear market; the latest store openings, collabs, and launches worth tracking; and much more.
Dylan Byers
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May 1, 2024
Dirty Skydancing
While the media universe overanalyzes the free speech implications of the tediously drawn out Paramount-Skydance merger—the Colbert-Carr-‘South Park’ of it all—CBS rank and file are pondering a simpler question: Who’s gonna fix the evening news?
Sarah Shapiro
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May 1, 2024
The Week in Shopping: The Claire’s Conundrum
The nostalgic mall brand had every advantage to capitalize on the exploding tchotchke market and maintain its ear piercing dominance. Instead, it’s teetering on the verge of bankruptcy.
Marion Maneker
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May 1, 2024
Paris Is Turning
The French art world is checked out for the summer, and its attention has already turned toward the fall, where Paris has a lineup of exhibitions—from George Condo to Richter—and a new home for the Fondation Cartier in time for October’s Art Basel.
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Matthew Belloni
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May 1, 2024
David Ellison and the Penis Politics of ‘South Park’
The would-be owner of Paramount scores the F.C.C. greenlight and survives the latest threat to the deal via Trey Parker and Matt Stone, whose outrageous (and nude) parody of Trump comes days after one of the most contentious talent negotiations I’ve covered.
John Ourand
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May 1, 2024
The ESPN-NFL Media Deal Is Happening
The NFL is finally close to a deal with ESPN that would give the league an equity stake in the network, and offer ESPN total control over NFL Network and NFL RedZone. I know regular readers of The Varsity have been reading that sentence for the past 18 months now. But, really, the two sides are closer than ever.
Julia Ioffe
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May 1, 2024
Operation Midnight Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard has been on the outs with Trump ever since their clash over Iran. But through the conspiracy alchemy of Epstein and Russiagate, she’s seizing her chance to come in from the cold.
Lauren Sherman
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May 1, 2024
Vogue’s Eva Chen Murmurs & Netflix’s Harry-Meghan Separation
A roundup of the latest fashion world intel: The chatter that Anna Wintour protégé Eva Chen has emerged as a leading candidate to take over American Vogue; the first-half report from LVMH and what it portends for luxury’s ongoing slump; and why Netflix decided against renewing Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s overall deal.
Lauren Sherman
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May 1, 2024
Fashion’s Celebrity Snooze Cruise
Fashion brands are more beholden than ever to big-ticket celebrities and their stylists, even though consumers care less and less about the culture’s predictable parade of interchangeable stars.
Ian Krietzberg
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May 1, 2024
Trump’s Big, Beautiful L.L.M.
The president’s grandly displayed A.I. Action Plan is long on frameworks but notably short on policy—a Rorschach test for fans and critics alike, revealing what researchers, scientists, and Big Tech companies want this young trillion-dollar industry to become (or avoid) as it matures at warp speed.
Leigh Ann Caldwell
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May 1, 2024
House Republicans’ Cruel Summer
G.O.P. members were hoping to spend the August recess focused on selling the (unpopular) Big Beautiful Bill to their constituents, and messaging about extended tax cuts. But the Epstein drama has consumed everything.