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Good morning, friendly face.

Warm out there today in New York. Today's high will be 97ºF. So find a way to stay cool. Today: two puffy clouds. Tomorrow: 90ºF, some passing clouds.

The World Cup finalists prepare for Sunday’s championship match. The Tour de France continues.

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New York exhibition explores how the Wiener Werkstätte preserved the human touch of handcraft

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Today (7/16): Celebrating 75 years of The Catcher in the Rye with Matt Salinger and Anika Jade Levy. Strand Rare Book Room. 828 Broadway. 7pm.

Today: Reading with Jack Degenhart, Venus Fischer, Gabriel Morgan, Jake Rothschild and Annika Suderburg, with music by Heading, Doris, Sledding and Violet Beller. Secret Ridgewood location. Queens. 7:30pm.

Tomorrow: Arcane Issue 5 launch with conversations and readings by Sam Anderson, Michel Auder, Hugo Bausch Belbachir, Louis Osmosis and Sam Marion Wilken, plus a reading curated by Nico Lou Monheim Carasquillo. EARTH. 49 Orchard Street. 6–9pm.

Tomorrow: Opening: Wet Trap, a group exhibition organized by Abella D’Adamo. WHAAM! 15 Elizabeth Street. 6–8pm.

Tomorrow: Clanging: Songs from Clanging performed by Emily Allan and her Clanging Band, with special guests Maya Martinez, Carlos the 5th and more. KGB Bar. 85 East 4th Street.

The Spinning Room: New Music No. 2607

Recently clicked: Folk Story, Vai, Under the Sea, It’s My Party, Holidaze.

Air thick

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Recent Notes

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Kazimir Malevich, Rest (Society in Top Hats), 1908. Gouache, watercolor, and ink on paper.

Art History.

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Cassandra Trenary Magnifies the Interior Life of Ballet

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How to Properly Enjoy Florence, with Filippo Fargna and Kim Jansch

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Auctions and the Psychology of Collecting

Paul Signac, La Salute (Venise), 1906. Sold at Koller in Zurich on 26 June 2026 for about $4.4 million.

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Art Heist: Pushkin Editions Stolen From European Libraries

Alexander Pushkin, watercolor attributed to S. G. Chirikov, 1810. Source: Central Museum of A. S. Pushkin / Wikimedia Commons.

A Paris trial traces the theft of rare Russian books from libraries across Europe. Bob Loblaw. Read More