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Getting Things Done Together

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A few years ago, advertisements for a software service named Monday.com seemed to be suddenly everywhere online. This ubiquity didn’t come cheap. An S.E.C. filing revealed that the product’s developers had…

Mark Ulriksen’s “Spooky Spiral”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Some people take a softer approach to Halloween: their celebrations begin and end with carving pumpkins and stringing up skeleton decorations, or consist of sipping mugs of apple cider and wandering…

Spooky Season Is Here

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Rachel SymeStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. It is…

José Andrés Puts On a Show

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. The Spanish-born chef José Andrés has, in recent…

How the Camera Re-Taught an Artist to See

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Even before Jay DeFeo’s death, at the age of sixty, in 1989, her reputation as an artist rested almost entirely on a single work, a massive painting called “The Rose.” Built…

The Beautiful, Unpredictable Life of Ryuichi Sakamoto

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In late March, Ryuichi Sakamoto, who was hailed as “arguably the best-known and most successful Japanese musician in the world,” died at the age of seventy-one. The cause was complications from…

Class, Care, and Transitions in “Nauha”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The director Pratham Khurana wanted to tell the protagonist’s coming-of-age story in a way that shows how proximity to death can change the people who go on living. The work of…

These People Used to Live Here?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Tony Notarberardino, a photographer from Melbourne, first arrived at the Chelsea Hotel in 1994. He was in his mid-thirties, and he had lived in Paris and London before deciding to try…