T Introduces highlights the debut of a singular person, place or thing. When the Canadian artist Ambera Wellmann painted “Strobe” (2021), a Surrealist beach landscape measuring 30 feet in length, she had just moved to New York, where she’d found representation with Company Gallery. Before that, she’d produced relatively small …
Read More »Can the New York Liberty, the Best in the W.N.B.A, Finally Win It All?
Barclays Center in Brooklyn shook with the roar of 17,700 basketball fans, almost all of them rooting for the New York Liberty. They have been waiting years for a team like this one, and on Thursday, with only five minutes left and the Liberty up by 15 points over the …
Read More »50 Years of Broccoli (and Mockery): A Co-op Co-Founder Calls It Quits
For a 74-year-old, Joe Holtz can cover a lot of ground very quickly. The ground he was covering the other day was the three adjoining carriage houses in Brooklyn that were subsumed by the Park Slope Food Co-op as it grew and became the largest, busiest and most argument-inducing single-store …
Read More »‘Suffs’ Won Tony Awards for Best Score and Book. Now It’s Closing.
“Suffs,” a new musical about the American women’s suffrage movement, has a lot going for it: Its producers include Hillary Rodham Clinton and Malala Yousafzai, it won Tony Awards for its score and its book, and its audiences seemed energized by how the show’s themes resonated with the candidacy of …
Read More »A Frustrated Trump Lashes Out Behind Closed Doors Over Money
Donald J. Trump took his seat at the dining table in his triplex penthouse apartment atop Trump Tower on the last Sunday in September, alongside some of the most sought-after and wealthiest figures in the Republican Party. There was Paul Singer, the billionaire hedge fund manager who finances Republican campaigns …
Read More »Joseph H. Reich, Charter School Pioneer, Dies at 89
Joseph H. Reich, a financier and philanthropist who with his wife created one of New York City’s first independently run public schools, proving that impoverished students could outperform expectations in such a setting — and which helped to kick-start the city’s charter-school movement — died on Sept. 29 at his …
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