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Small enough to hold, large enough to stand beside: that change is part of the point of Yoshitomo Nara’s monumental heads. Their starting forms were modeled in clay. The enlargements are metal, with white paint giving the hard material an unexpectedly soft appearance. A clay prototype is the model for a larger work; the finished … Read more
For 120 years, the Morgan held the end of a book whose beginning was elsewhere. Nine leaves of an Ars moriendi blockbook arrived with the Bennett collection in 1902. In May 2022, the Morgan Library & Museum acquired fifteen more—the missing beginning of that same copy. Together, the two groups account for all 24 leaves. … Read more
You can like rain sounds at bedtime without wanting rain sounds in Discover Weekly. You can also be tired of a perfectly good song without wanting Spotify to conclude that you hate everything like it. Those are different problems, and Spotify gives them confusingly similar controls. To fix Spotify recommendations, first decide whether you want … Read more
The face is familiar enough that you may barely register what’s behind it. A girl turns toward us, her lips parted, a blue-and-yellow headscarf catching the light. Around her is darkness. It seems to leave us alone with her. But that background once had more to show us. Scientific examination of Vermeer’s Girl with a … Read more
Start with Guards! Guards! if you want one recommendation. It gives you a city in trouble, a battered police force and a reason to care what happens next. You can meet Terry Pratchett’s world through a story instead of studying a reading chart. If that doesn’t sound like your kind of evening, choose Mort for … Read more
“It gets good.” That recommendation leaves out the part you need most: good in what way? Does the next episode deepen a relationship you already care about, or does something finally explode after four hours of people looking worried? If you’re deciding whether to keep watching a slow series, give it more time when you … Read more
You live in the same house. You use the same kitchen, argue over the thermostat, and occasionally hear somebody else’s Spotify playlist through a wall. Then Spotify sends an email asking one of you to prove that you live together. It feels as though an app has somehow examined your family arrangements and reached the … Read more
At first, the painting seems easy enough to take in. A wealthy man in a dark hat stands beside a woman in a magnificent green dress. A small dog occupies the floor between them with the calm confidence of an animal that knows it belongs in the family portrait. Then your eye reaches the back … Read more
Revised September 2026. U.S. prices below were checked August 24, 2026, and will change. Menu paths and cancellation guidance were checked against Apple, Google, Amazon, the CFPB, and FTC materials. You sit down to watch something and a small notice appears: your plan is changing. The show is starting, so you tap past it. Then … Read more