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1 Rebecca Traister’s profile of Kirsten Gillibrand raised plenty of eyebrows—especially for the junior U.S. senator from New York’s liberal use of the word fuck (“Kirsten Gillibrand Is an Enthusiastic No,” April 3–16 ). “This Senate is rated ‘M,’ for ‘mature,’” tweeted Carl Quintanilla. But Upworthy’s Parker Molloy argued that Gillibrand’s language choice was getting far more attention than another aspect of Traister’s article: Susan Collins’s and Gilli-brand’s support for each other. Molloy wrote, “Gillibrand and Collins represent something important in any profession: what it looks like when women have each other’s backs.” Some journalists raised questions about different aspects of the piece, though. The Times’ Maggie Haberman tweeted, “Gillibrand has more in common with Sanders than Clinton? Seriously?” (For the record, Traister wrote that she has much in common…

I’M SO CONFUSED, because I was in Fire Island last summer and I was like, When the fuck did they film that?” Andrew Rannells says. We’re talking about gay representation on TV, and I’ve just asked him if he’s watched the trailer for Fire Island, the new reality-TV show on Logo that follows six friends as they summer in “gay Disneyland.” The Girls actor—who gets to unleash his 20-something id as Elijah Krantz, Hannah Horvath’s ex-boyfriend turned gay best friend and roommate—is more interested in the logistics of the shoot than anything else. “Do they go to Tea?” He’s talking about the big party—the party—that starts every afternoon in the Pines at a bar near the ferry dock. I confess that I’ve never been to Fire Island. “Oh, it’s the…

New York City receives $7 billion in federal funds annually, less than 9 percent of its total budget. President Trump has proposed a budget that, if passed by Congress, could cut up to $1 billion of that funding, including: $571 MILLION IN HUD GRANTS, which fund everything from affordable and public housing to safety measures for senior citizens; $40 MILLION IN HHS GRANTS, which fund heating subsidies for 700,000 households earning less than $50,000 a year for a family of four; $190 MILLION IN DHS GRANTS, most of which the NYPD has used for “vapor wake” dogs trained to sniff for body-worn explosives, radiological equipment, training and equipment for the bomb squad, and the Domain Awareness System that placed thousands of security cameras across the city; $58 MILLION IN DOT…

THE PLAYERS ONE MONDAY LAST MONTH, Thomas P. Campbell, the departing director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, stooped silently over a burial suit of jade tiles threaded with gold, circa 100 B.C. In this private moment, he had his back to reporters gathering for a first look at the Met’s landmark China survey “Age of Empires.” A moment later, Ken Weine, the new communications chief, tapped him on the shoulder, and Campbell pivoted, summoned up his British charm, and shook my hand. At 54, sandy hair parted in the middle, looking like he’d just exchanged safari khakis for a headmaster’s suit, he wore a trace of the uncomplicated pride he might have felt if journalists weren’t just then dissecting his eight-year tenure and the snowballing crisis of confidence that…

EARLIER THIS SPRING, we asked dozens of artists and curators and critics to tell us which works of protest art they’d found most powerful in the current climate—and which works from the past they felt were inspiring in new ways. Some of the choices were unexpected: Rashid Johnson cited Dave Chappelle’s SNL monologue (“That for me nailed it”); Lizzi Bougatsos picked a #NoDAPL banner suspended from the rafters of a Vikings game; Daniel J. Martinez pointed to the cell-phone game Trump Dump. And Anton Vidokle chose the president himself: “Unfortunately there is nothing that comes even near the kind of a performance that Trump and his administration are staging,” he said. Here are a few of the other choices. SCOTT ROTHKOPF WHITNEY CURATOR NEW RAGE CAULEEN SMITH, IN THE WAKE,…

HOW DO ARTISTS—and people whose lives revolve around art—live? That’s the question we set out to answer for our twice-yearly celebration of design. We looked to gallerist Nina Johnson-Milewski and her husband, artist Daniel Milewski, whose Miami Craftsman (pictured here) became a work of art in and of itself after they had their way with it. And also collector Adam Lindemann’s David Adjaye–designed Montauk house high above the ocean—a soothing backdrop for his rotating roster of art pieces. Back in New York City, artists Eric Boman and Peter Schlesinger’s treasure-filled loft tells the story of their four decades in the city. And in Bushwick, there’s the basement studio where Whitney Biennialist Raúl de Nieves spends his days in a bead-covered dreamscape. FIRST LOOK On June 15, London-based home store…

NYCxDESIGN is taking over New York in May and in preparation of this citywide event, we’ve curated a select list of not-to-be-missed vendors and happenings. UNION SQUARE/FLATIRON/NOMAD 1 | ABC Carpet & Home 888/881 Broadway abchome.com Design with Intention: How Color, Light + Space Create Wellbeing May 2; 6:30-8pm Handmade Change: Women Craft Entrepreneurs Transform Communities May 23; 6:30-8pm 2 | Moooi 36 East 31st St.moooi.com ‘A Life Extraordinary’ May 19; 6–9pm Features photography by Levon Biss, newly released novelties, and the latest carpet designs. 3 | New York Design Center 200 Lexington Ave.nydc.com Gallery After Dark: Rochelle Udell Talk (and tour following) May 4; 5:30–7:30pm, 1stdibs Gallery at 200 Lex Contemporary Design Open House Visit nydc.com  for a schedule of events. 4 | Milano Smart Living 200…

LEGION, WHICH ENDED its first season on FX last month, has been praised for both its narrative experimentation and its punctilious aesthetic. Case in point: the hair. The show—which is, roughly, about a man named David Haller who has godlike telekinetic abilities and is constantly falling into and out of parallel realities, and also there are elaborate dance sequences—features the most distinctive hairdos on television, nodding to influences ranging from The Mod Squad to Keith Moon of the Who. So which Legion look is most suited to you? We spoke to Sanna Seppanen, Legion’s head hairstylist, about the considerations behind the coiffures. The Lovestruck Bardot When we first meet the haphephobic Syd Barrett (Rachel Keller), she’s residing in a mental hospital. “The wide, Brigitte Bardot headband holds her together in…

KATHRYN HAHN HAS spent 15 years portraying funny friends, sympathetic wives, and, occasionally, sex maniacs. (See Step Brothers.) But Hahn’s role in the Amazon series I Love Dick—and her ongoing collaboration with Transparent creator Jill Soloway—has finally given the Yale Drama graduate a moment to, in her words, “feel fearless.” Given all that, there’s a good chance you think you know Kathryn Hahn pretty well. You do not. Stacey Wilson Hunt spoke with Hahn in order to rectify your many misconceptions. TRUE OR FALSE? Kathryn Hahn has been totally happy playing supporting roles as wacky pals and loving wives for 15 years. FALSE: “It certainly wasn’t a choice to be supporting all those years. There was a disconnect between the work I was asked to do and the work I…

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All That Room Living in a loft—as the New Yorkers on page 90 of this design issue do—is so ubiquitous now that it’s easy to forget that it had to be invented, and the place where it was invented was downtown New York. By the 1960s, the factory floors and warehouses of the 19th century were no longer the nation’s main source of shirts and bouillon cubes and leather goods; they were too small for contemporary manufacturing, and it was a lot easier to truck everything out from an elevatorless shed next to a suburban highway. But those old buildings turned out to be great places to make art and live life, albeit sometimes only semi-legally. By 1970, the loft boom was on, and real-estate pressure was already increasing on…

LIGHTNING ROUND Lives: Between New York, Mexico City, and Paris. Scarf: “I have about 25, some of which I got at a shop in Soho that doesn’t exist anymore.” Hat: “I have a guy in Tucumán who makes them for me.” Favorite New York spot: Lucky Strike. Last good movie seen: Moonlight. MIGUEL ANGEL RÍOS Artist What kind of art do you make? I make maps, drawings, and videos about borders, violence, immigration. I am a political refugee—I came to New York from Argentina during the military dictatorship in 1975—so I find Trump very disturbing. I touch on political things, but my job is to make art. If I become too political, I will stop being an artist and start being a…

IN THE EARLY 2000S, when I. M. Pei was well into his 80s, he went on a tour of the Middle East to bone up on Islamic architecture before designing one of its major monuments. His mission was to erect a museum that did not yet exist in a city that had recently been built from scratch. He selected a site on an island that had to be made and paid homage to a tradition he didn’t know and a religion with which he had no prior relationship. Somehow all that foreignness produced a late-period masterpiece, the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. Over the course of his career, the aristocrat of American architects, who turns 100 on April 26, has drawn on a dazzling range of influences, from…

“I don’t know how to have a long career. But I know how to have an interesting life.” GREAT NEWS premieres April 25 on NBC. ANDREA MARTIN is the funniest woman alive. Before you offer a counterargument, let’s establish a few ground rules. First, we’ll award extra points for longevity—and, at age 70, Martin has been professionally funny for almost 50 years. Second, there’s versatility. Many comedians are funny, but they are always funny in more or less the same way. If you revisit some of Martin’s classic characters on the TV show SCTV, you’ll be hard-pressed to believe these are all played by the same woman. Plus, Martin stood out even in that rarefied crowd. The initial cast of SCTV is, I’d argue, the single greatest collection of comedic…

RECALL Robert Pattinson in 2012, the year of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part 2, the fifth Twilight movie and a knotty exercise in punctuation. That film capped a franchise that had grossed some $3.3 billion worldwide. Pattinson was as familiar a matinee-idol name as any male actor in the world—and seemingly trapped forever in his role as the sullen vampire Edward. Five years later, Pattinson’s magically gone from Rob Lowe to Robert Mitchum. How did the teen idol reinvent himself as character actor? Here, we take a look at the method behind his makeover. 1 Work With Weirdos Post-Twilight, the obvious route would’ve been prestige-TV roles and the tutelage of Academy-approved directors. Instead, Pattinson starred in Cosmopolis, adapted from a Don DeLillo book by David Cronenberg, the Canadian maestro of…

Judith Livingston has long been considered one of the most successful plaintiff’s attorneys in the United States, with clients and peers alike praising her determined advocacy and significant recoveries. Among her results, Livingston has won 33 trials with verdicts in excess of $1 million (more than any other female litigator in the country) and has also negotiated almost a half-billion dollars in settlements for her clients. In addition, her firm, Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore, recently achieved the largest automobile accident verdict in New York history and a ground-breaking $172 million verdict for a botched 911-EMS response. “The most important advice I can give anyone is to find purpose in the law; purpose that is bigger than yourself,” says Livingston of her success. “This can be a noble profession. And…

THE SO-CALLED sanctuary movement began in the mid-1980s, when hundreds of thousands of refugees from the U.S.-funded civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala began crossing the border into Arizona and Texas (in 1984, less than 3 percent were granted asylum, compared with 60 percent of Iranians and 40 percent of Afghans). Following the lead of a Presbyterian minister in Tucson, hundreds of churches, synagogues, and college campuses across the U.S. proclaimed themselves “sanctuaries” and began sheltering and transporting thousands of refugees. In 1989, San Francisco became the first city to label itself a “sanctuary city” and banned the use of city resources to assist federal immigration authorities. Today, there’s still no set definition of a “sanctuary city,” though they all limit their cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in…

“WHAT ARE THEY DEBATING, REALLY? MY RIGHT TO EXIST?” AT THE TIME of the debut of her most recent public-art project, which was also her first public-art project, Kara Walker would clandestinely ride her bike from her home in Fort Greene to the then-defunct Williamsburg Domino Sugar factory, in which her massive sculpture was housed. The sugar Sphinx was raised in the summer of 2014; crowds as big as 10,000 people gathered to visually consume, and to Instagram, the monumental sculpture. Back then, Walker had dyed the top of her cropped Afro blonde, and her vague purpose in visiting Domino, she tells me, involved evaluating the people who had come to evaluate her work: She wanted to see how the moment of encounter with the colossus could change their faces.…

A skirt from the “Lilith” collection, inspired by the biblical tale of Adam’s demonic first wife. “Ballerina Motorbike” was the fusion of tutus and tire tracks. “Body Meets Dress—Dress Meets Body” was so abstract it barely resembled clothing. Above, a skirt. Hairstylist Julien d’Ys’s sketch for “Wonderland.” In “Broken Bride,” she deconstructed wedding gowns to evoke unhappy marriages. Traditional blankets reimagined as clothing in “Wonderland.” She experimented with intricately twisted fabrics, like this robe jacket. Julien d’Ys’s sketch for “Monster.” Her high-low span has included collabs with the likes of Converse. “Blood and Roses” challenged avant-garde coldness with visceral reds. Kawakubo loves to deconstruct uniforms, like the school plaids she tweaked for “Modern Sweetness.” And she’s attracted to the punk-meets-traditional spirit of tartan, using it for “Inside Decoration.” “2 Dimensions”…

Jean-Georges Vongerichten is no stranger to sauerkraut. The chef grew up in Alsace—“the sauerkraut capital of the world,” he says. “In the winter we had it once a week.” But his mother’s choucroute garnie, the classic preparation cooked with goose fat and garnished with smoked and fresh pork, is a far cry from what he’s serving at his new vegetarian restaurant, abcV. Even as awareness grows about the connection between fermented foods and a healthy gut, sauerkraut’s journey from Sabrett hot-dog cart to star chef ’s menu is nothing short of groundbreaking. Vongerichten suggests sharing an order for the table, though he has his own routine: “I eat it with eggs for breakfast.” On the menu at abcV ; $10; 38 E. 19th St., nr. Park Ave. S.; 212-475-5829 SCRATCHPAD…

LET IT FALL: LOS ANGELES 1982–1992 will air on April 28 on ABC. I HAD A VERY DISTINCT plan for my career,” says John Ridley, nursing a cup of tea while sitting at a table in an atrium at Lincoln Center. “I was going to start as a comedian,” he continues, outlining a life that never was, “and by the mid-phase of my career, I’d be the biggest stand-up on the planet. Then by the time I was 50, I’d retire into a comfortable existence as a novelist.” Ridley did become a stand-up comedian, peaking with a performance of his gently pointed material on The Late Show in 1994. (Sample joke: “The only way people would ever stop taking drugs is if you made them legal, but to get them,…

Dash Shaw Dash Shaw is an artist and filmmaker best known for the celebrated 2008 graphic novel Bottomless Belly Button. Born in Hollywood, Shaw is the director of the new animated film My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, a comedy about a high-school student named Dash. Dash Snow Dashiell “Dash” Snow was an artist who lived in New York until his death in 2009. He was the great-grandson of French aristocrat Dominique de Menil and the grandson of Robert Thurman, a renowned Buddhist. His work is now part of the Whitney’s permanent collection. Dash Parr Dashiell Robert “Dash” Parr is the 10-year-old son of Bob and Helen Parr. Along with two more siblings, the family is featured in Pixar’s The Incredibles. Dash’s superpower is speed—his parents initially forbid…

The Divine Order Premieres 4/21 Petra Volpe’s story of Swiss women still trying to get the right to vote in 1970—against men who say that violates the title concept. The Departure Premieres 4/21 Lana Wilson (After Tiller) profiles a Buddhist priest bent on “saving the souls” of suicidal people. Blame Premieres 4/22 Quinn Shephard writes, directs, and plays a girl playing Abigail in a high-school production of The Crucible. Expect lots of real-life parallels. The Boy Downstairs Premieres 4/23 Zosia Mamet finally finds a New York City apartment. The catch is that the ex whose heart she broke lives downstairs. Of course she takes it anyway. City of Ghosts Premieres 4/26 Matthew Heineman’s ravaging, essential doc profiles citizen journalists’ attempt to blow the whistle on Islamic State atrocities in Syria.…