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The Puzzle of Putting Video Games in a Museum

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At some point in my childhood, I persuaded my parents to buy me a computer game at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Obsessed, like many kids, with ancient Egypt, I’d spent…

Kelly Clarkson’s Captivating Divorce Album

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Kelly Clarkson’s voice was always wasted on saccharine ballads such as “A Moment Like This,” the début single that she released, in 2002, after winning the inaugural season of “American Idol.”…

Climate and Conflict Converge in “The Fire Brigade”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “In these parts of the world, where people live in extremely rough circumstances, they’re able to put aside [their] differences in the name of protecting their environment,” the director David Alexander…

Turner Classic Movies Is a National Treasure

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The gutting of Turner Classic Movies by its parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, is a grim omen for the future of the channel. Much of its leadership team was pushed out,…

Paris Reborn and Destroyed

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story 1 / 10ChevronChevronPlace Saint-André-des-Arts. c. 1865. © Charles Marville Marville/Musée Carnavalet/Roger-Viollet/The Image Works. The Paris we know is shaded white and gray, a city of zinc roofs and pale stone façades…

Kadir Nelson’s “Declaration of Independence”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Instead of hosting back-yard barbecues for the Fourth of July, many New Yorkers gather in crowds throughout the city, to watch fireworks burst over the East River or to celebrate under…