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Food

Erewhon Is Not A Grocery Store

Barry Petchesky

Arts And Culture

The Eyes Have It

Soraya Roberts

What The Beads Can Tell You

Lauren Theisen

Warhol's 'Ladies And Gentlemen' portraits in the Warhol Museum gallery

Lost At The Warhol

Dan McQuade was a founding member of Defector. He died in January 2026.

Dan McQuade

Two manet paintings with a Pop Art painting crashing over them

Eagles Win Loan Of Manet Painting In Super Bowl Bet, Which Is What This Thing Was About All Along

Megan Greenwell is the author of Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, which will be published in June 2025 and is <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/bad-company-megan-greenwell?variant=43151012757538">available for preorder now</a>.

Megan Greenwell

photo of a corner of the Clevelant Museum of Art

The Wonder Of The Regional Art Museum

A man looks at the oil painting "Beer Garden with A.K." (2009) by Nicole Eisenman

The Beauty Of The Ordinary Is There For The Painting

charismatic megafauna (they/them)

Sabrina Imbler

A yellowish lizard called the Jamaican giant galliwasp curled up in a jar of preservative

Creaturefector

How A 170-Year-Old Lizard Finally Came Home To Jamaica

The messed up basketball court shaped like a parallelogram

They Turned This Museum Into A Basketball Court And It Rules

A woman encourages her child to look at the mummy of young boy during a preview of the 'Ancient lives, new discoveries' exhibition at the British Museum in Central London on May 20, 2014.