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9+ min ago (168+ words) Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center's Leah Rauch on making sure queer voices are remembered in a museum setting. LGBTQ+ narratives are being stripped from public memory just as attacks on queer and trans people surge. Why some museums refuse to let history repeat itself. Landesarchiv Berlin via Pink Triangle Legacies Project We all must learn to embrace discomfort and engage with history, both our own and that of our ancestors, and the history of those we perceive as far different from ourselves. Uncensored education that looks critically at the past has always been and will always be the core part of the museum's mission and a necessary part of the answer to repairing the world. Exhibition at the Illinois Holocaust Museum Leah Rauch (she/her) is the Director of Education at Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, whose mission…...

9+ min ago (93+ words) For more covers about the holiday season, see below: "December 9, 1933," by Ilonka Karasz "December 19, 1994," by Carter Goodrich Find Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet's covers, cartoons, and more at the Cond" Nast Store. Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

9+ min ago (89+ words) In truth, we just add layers of complexity to everything until it becomes illegible," Harington's Henry said, with dawning insight. Welcome to finance, bro," Minghella's Halberstram shot back. Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

9+ min ago (194+ words) I feel very fortunate that so many people value me enough to want me at their wedding, and while I am happy for my friends who are getting married, I have started to feel intense envy and despair. I want love and commitment so badly. I can put my feelings aside for the duration of the wedding, but without fail, I end up sobbing at home alone when it's over. I don't want to be the bitter single friend. I'm also not naive enough to think that I'm guaranteed to find a partner'I know that it's entirely possible that I won't, so the typical "you'll find love when you least expect it!" advice doesn't work on me. How do I move past these ugly feelings so I can be truly happy for my friends who have found love? 'Always Be…...

9+ min ago (58+ words) Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

9+ min ago (372+ words) Readers respond to Adam Gopnik's piece about the demolition of the East Wing, Jessica Winter's essay about the so-called crisis of men, and Jill Lepore's essay about historical precedents for the Trump era. Adam Gopnik is right that Trump's demolition of Roosevelt's East Wing violates the democratic process (Comment, November 3rd). But the White House building itself is not exactly a paragon of democracy. Gopnik's piece sent me back to John Ruskin, whom he cites as "the greatest of architectural critics." In "The Stones of Venice," Ruskin insists that buildings record not just the ideals of those who commissioned them but also the conditions of those who built them. The East Wing was grafted onto an original structure that was built in part by enslaved people. Its neoclassical form proclaimed republican ideals; its production betrayed them. Trump's wrecking ball is crude,…...

9+ min ago (215+ words) Also in the column of righting historical wrongs? Pubic hair. Why has art history pretended that it doesn't exist? "I could find maybe ten paintings where the artist paints it. Pubic hair was vulgar," Minter said. "So I decided to make pubic-hair paintings that are gorgeous. They're so beautiful you can put them over your living-room couch." "Instead, you got this," Fonda said, extending a middle finger banded in a thick gold ring. "You're a troublemaker," Minter said. "I had no choice. I got so mad at Trump." "What else do you want to do to him?" Kenny Scharf, an artist she has known for decades, asked. It was almost time for the movie to begin. Minter settled into a big red theatre seat next to Fonda. "Would you like some popcorn?" Fonda asked her. "I don't think so," Minter…...

9+ min ago (300+ words) Lupi's interlocutor wasn't unfond of data himself but couldn't help casting his eyes toward the "Missed You" component of her spreadsheet, a compilation of "missed connections" like those found on Craigslist. The video includes two sample laments: We locked eyes for an eternity as you got out at 42nd Street and descended deeper into the subway abyss. I was already late. I got off at Astor Place. You stayed on. When I was leaving the train, you smiled at me, I smiled back. They were slightly generic by design, Lupi explained, adding that anything too funny would distract from the closing message that "we're all part of the same story." In terms of data, the candidates compiled in the spreadsheet skewed heavily in favor of the L and the G'no great surprise. (Lupi lived in Greenpoint when the project began and…...

9+ min ago (58+ words) Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside the office. The pain of perfectionism....

9+ min ago (153+ words) On weekends we'd take the bus into the city'my father, my younger brother, and I. We lived in Brooklyn then, in Flatbush; this was in the late sixties, when I was nine or ten. My father didn't live with us. He'd pick us up late morning on a Saturday, and off we'd head to Manhattan'three explorers in pursuit of discovery. We had to change buses in Williamsburg. Handing our transfers to the driver of the second bus was like making it through passport control: nothing could stop us now. Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, had just given birth when she was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. A holiday gift guide: presents to thank your host. The real housewives of Moscow. What did men do to deserve this? The Prime Minister who tried to have a life outside…...