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06/25/2026

Norman Rockwell art that ignited a lawsuit and a love story is now on public view

So You Want to See The President! depicts a procession of visitors waiting to see Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The original 1943 Rockwell suite of illustrations goes on public view Thursday in D.C.

06/25/2026

June 25, 1942: the French collaborationist press denounced the Zazous - young people who embraced Black American swing and jazz music and style and fought against fascists in the streets.

06/24/2026

Allen Ginsberg on Jack Kerouac, Doing Acid, and the Legacy of Howl

In our December 1989 issue, Gregory Corso reminisces with Allen Ginsberg about poetry, jazz and the people in Ginsberg's book of photographs.

06/24/2026

Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage Opens Applications for Residencies

The former home of artist Derek Jarman has opened for 2027–2028 residencies, with artists, filmmakers, writers and gardeners invited to apply for a two‑week stay on the Kent coast.

The former home of artist Derek Jarman has opened for 2027–2028 residencies, with artists, filmmakers, writers and gardeners invited to apply for a two-week stay on the Kent coast.

06/24/2026

Club Deluxe reopens its doors on Haight Street

Shuttered for several years, a Haight Street institution is reborn.

06/23/2026

On June 23, 1983, famed photographer Richard Avedon visited a Hutterite colony in Harlowton, Montana, to photograph 13-year-old Freida Kleinsasser.

This striking black-and-white portrait became one of the defining images of his acclaimed documentary project, In the American West. The image, which features Kleinsasser wearing a floral dress and a polka-dot headscarf while staring directly into the camera lens, continues to be exhibited in major retrospectives around the world.

06/23/2026

The creative director of Chanel shuns the ‘Wild West’ look: ‘We already have too many cowboys in this world’

EL PAÍS went inside Thomas du Pré de Saint Maur’s headquarters. He is the creative mind behind Chanel’s No. 5 fragrance, which remains timeless. During this interview, he describes how he recruited superstar Jacob Elordi as the new ambassador for Bleu de Chanel L’Exclusif

06/23/2026

The funny and always thought provoking Josh Johnson on U.S. immigration.

06/23/2026

Filmmaker James Spooner has regained the rights to his 2003 documentary "Afro-Punk" after a decades-long legal battle.

Filmmaker and High Desert native James Spooner has regained the rights to his 2003 documentary "Afro-Punk" after a decades-long legal battle.

06/23/2026

Kudos to VJayBombs, ingenious street artists who once emblazoned L.A. with projections of ICE hauling off Jesus, and who just hit D.C. to plaster “Guardians of P**ophiles” on the Kennedy Center’s “literal cover-up” and murky regime minions - bats, worms, turtles - on the besieged Reflecting Pool.

Kudos to VJayBombs, ingenious street artists who once emblazoned L.A. with projections of ICE hauling off Jesus, and who just hit D.C. to plaster “Guardians of P**ophiles" on the Kennedy Center's "literal cover-up" and murky regime minions - bats, worms, turtles - on the besieged Reflecting Pool. ...