New York Magazine - USA (2019-11-25)

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THE APPROVAL MATRIX Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.

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The $1,250

Basquiat-themed

watch.

Disney is demolishing

an entire block of

historic buildings in

West Soho for its big,

new, meh HQ.

AI-generated art by

Paris-based collective

Obvious doesn’t do well

at auction. Obviously.

Venice

sinks.

Prince Andrew’s

attempt to explain his

royal self on the BBC.

Mike Bloomberg’s

curiously timed

apology for

stop and frisk.

Theeditorof the Atlanta

Journal-Constitution fact-

checkstheportrayal ofthe

pressin Clint Eastwood’s

RichardJewell, says it “often

differsfrom reality.”

Collegestudents

demandcollege

journalists stop

makingjournalism.

The slow-cook

impeachment.

(Sondland has

the receipts.)

President Obama’s

side-eye at

“certain left-leaning

Twitter feeds.”

Lydia Davis’s

Essays One: proof that

books are still the

best mobile devices.

The well-named Brice

Marden show at

Gagosian: “It reminds

me of something, and

I don’t know what it is.”

Flea’smemoir

and child-rearing

guide,Acidfor

theChildren.

PeterDinklage’s

swashbucklingreturnto

the stageinthemoody,

musicalCyranoat

the Daryl Roth Theatre.

DianaVr eeland’sgreat-

granddaughterCaroline

sings,withPomeranians

intheaudience,

attheTopoftheStandard.

BabyYoda.

Someonedyesthe

fountaininfront

of 1251 SixthAvenue

green...

ThenewMilkBar

flagshipattheAce

Hotel.Mooooo!

Nowthatyourhouseis

decluttered, Marie

Kondo wants to sell

you “joyful” objects via

her online store.

Soonon sale: Spot,

theterrifying

robo-dog! (Laser

gunsnot included.)

Tr yingtowatchthe

brutalefficiencyof

theHoustonRockets.

Thewaytoa single

guy’sheartis through

chickenparm,the

NewYorkPostreports.

Trumpsourson

e-cigbanforfear

oflosingthe

vapervote.

TwoArkansaschemistry

professorsare

accusedofcookingmeth

ina schoollab...

... And whoever thought

of South Dakota’s

“Meth. We’re on It” PSA

definitely was.

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wer t

and ing

thecoldweather.

HannahCullen’s

YoungDanceCollective’s

teen-angstpiece

EverythingI Was

NeverTaughtatNew

YorkLive Arts.

Elon Musk’s Starlink

satellites are blocking

astronomers’view of

thestars.

Stephen Miller revealed

to be a ... white

nationalist? For real?

Famous author Sarah

Dessen and her

famous-author pals drag

a former Northern State

University student

for snobbish comments

about her YA work.

Cruisyholidayart

giftbook:Peter

Berlin:Icon,Artist,

Photosexual.

The decadent

blitheness and high-

minded spectacle

of the Met’s Akhnaten.

Netflixhires

RobertTowne

toco-write

a prequelseries

toChinatown.

The red-panda

babies at Prospect

Park Zoo!

... Pr obablyunrelated:

KermittheFrog

pivotstofashion

influencer.

TWAHotelis

opening a jet-fuel-

scented runway

ice-skating rink.

The meticulous, beautiful,

and oh-so-very

experimental History

of Violence at

St. Ann’s Warehouse.

The churro

vendor is now a

public menace?

PeteDavidsonis

datingCindy

Crawford’s18-year-

olddaughter,

KaiaGerber?

Joe Biden is too worried

that pot is a gateway

drug to sign

on to legalize it.

Vogue bleeps out

Cardi B saying the word

fart in a video

interview. Censorship!