4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (107+ words) The Atlantic After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year. Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch plans to announce his retirement from the institution at the end of this year,…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (661+ words) His paintings evoked an American innocence that didn’t exist—and that the nation couldn’t live up to. Early in Lynch’s masterpiece Mulholland Drive, which turns 25 this year, is a scene that doubles as one of Lynch’s many loving homages to…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (198+ words) His life as a writer and farmer was informed by a simple, clarifying idea: Forget tomorrow, and work toward what is good today. I knew this already, of course. Berry, who died on Monday at the age of 92, lived a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (24+ words) The activist and writer, who died yesterday at the age of 92, steadfastly fought for her belief that women could change the world together....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (130+ words) Maybe museums shouldn’t be showcasing living fashion designers. Read: Yet another wasted Met Gala Those efforts did little to assuage wider public opinion. Museum donors threatened to pull funding; the speaker of the New York City Council called the choice…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (76+ words) The Atlantic A renewed threat underscores the museum complex’s isolation—and the limits of Trump’s pressure campaign. The Trump administration’s latest strategy to control the Smithsonian has the logic of lunchroom bullying; the Department of Interior is channeling “you can’t…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (259+ words) A service run from Latvia offers payment for short, social-media-friendly clips designed to look like grassroots GOP support. The man, who goes by Serviuos, is promoting a campaign called Elephant Clipping, run by his company, ClipIt. The company pays subcontractors,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1288+ words) Welcome to Girlie-Pop Woodstock The Atlantic Early Saturday afternoon at the Daisy Chain Fields festival, in Irvine, California, the 25-year-old singer Eli twirled in a tank top emblazoned with a cartoon guitar while singing songs whose plasticky violins recalled the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (90+ words) The Atlantic Dominican Sisters Open Mic has gone viral, in part because of its hosts’ unabashed joy. At a convent in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the bell chimes every day at 5 a.m. Then the 40 or so women who live there year-round…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago   (376+ words) A board of Trump loyalists keeps dragging out a legal fight over the center’s future. To put the legal fight over the Kennedy Center in operatic terms, it has become more than a little Wagnerian. After another hearing this week…...