Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.
highbrow The Met Museum sold Portrait of a Young Girl in 2013, thinking it wasn’t a Rubens— but now it turns out it is.
The New York State budget doesn’t include a raise in the minimum wage but does include a tax break for yacht buyers.
Cooper Union considering an “overload charge” for students who take more than 19.5 hours of credits.
If the developers of a 915-foot-tall Long Island City apartment tower start building by summer, they will qualify for tax breaks without having to include affordable housing.
The preemptive Twitter inquisition of Trevor Noah. Someone hired a PI to investigate the prof who criticized the treatment of migrant workers building NYU’s Abu Dhabi campus and the Times reporter who wrote about it.
Pharrell is adorable and all, but why does he keep dressing like he’s a bellhop from the Grand Budapest Hotel? The century-old Caffe Dante damned by the trendy smallplate-restaurant inferno.
Until Jeb’s flip-flop, not a single Republican presidential contender opposed the Indiana “religious freedom” law …
Good-bye, Don Draper (whoever you are) …
Looking, HBO’s low-key gay show that refused to exploit gay men, is canceled.
What kind of crackhead show is Better Call Saul?
Yes, pain is inevitable: For Buddhists with a taste for megaclubs, a new Tao is opening on the Bowery. Are you stoned enough to buy White Castle sneakers? The Atlanta Falcons were caught piping crowd noise into the Georgia Dome over the past two seasons.
A jury-rigged gas-siphoning plan may have destroyed half a city block in the East Village …
… Which Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven deservedly wins.
Carey Mulligan is rivetingly, radically transparent in David Hare’s Skylight.
… But Walmart stood up against Arkansas’s version.
Martha Stewart bawdily, fearlessly steals the show at the roast of Justin Bieber. Hey, Cumberbitches! You can buy an Enigma machine at the April 13 auction at Bonhams New York (est. $140,000 to $180,000).
Janelle Monáe’s “Yoga” should inspire everyone to downward-facing doggy style.
Justice at last! McDonald’s is not only raising wages but testing ending the arbitrary 10:30 breakfast cutoff.
The Cherry Grove hotel on Fire Island burned down …
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Thanks to 3-D printing, Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia should be finally completed by 2026.
Artist Mac Premo’s skateboards made of garbage for a World Wildlife Fund fund-raiser.
… Welcome back, Littlefinger.
Jay Z’s new (and very expensive) hi-fi streaming service, Tidal.
“Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks” at the Brooklyn Museum.
Sam I Am’s transfixing solo dances at FLEXN at the Park Avenue Armory. The crazyambitious ReThinkNYC proposal to expand La Guardia by subsuming Rikers Island.
Actually, we were kind of hoping that things might work out better in Alexandria on The Walking Dead.
… Meanwhile, it could cost $26 billion to replace all the old gas mains in NYC.
Tracee Chimo lands and sticks four different characters in The Heidi Chronicles.
… But the adjacent Ice Palace club survived, which means the weekly gay underwear dance parties will go on this summer.
lowbrow
Future’s “Fuck Up Some Commas” video is how kids should be taught grammar and the value of money and hard work.
Rihanna, furry leprechaun (and Jimmy Kimmel tormentor).
brilliant
despicable
Robert Menendez is indicted for getting by with a little too much help from his friends.
Because they describe gang rape (which he describes as “exhaustingly unpleasant”), Stephin Merritt knocks two contenders for the Dallas Morning News’ annual Tournament of Books …
Lisa Batiashvili and Paul Lewis’s violinand-piano recital at Alice Tully Hall was a quiet marvel.
Alex Da Corte’s haunted decorator show house at Luxembourg & Dayan gallery.
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