PUBLIC ARTS BRINGS CULTURE TO THE HOTEL

With a performing arts space beneath New York’s most exciting new hotel, nightlife impresarios Carlos Quirarte and Matt Kliegman are bringing a sense of surprise back to the city with concerts, dance, book signings, stand-up comedy, and even club nights.

THE LAST PEOPLE: JORDAN HEMINGWAY'S NEW YORK

The latest edition of The Last People, our ongoing series of fascinating individuals, features photographer Jordan Hemingway’s favorite New York personalities.

THE LAST WORD: MYSTIC

Kate Brittain’s sharp tale about desultory love and lust is the latest edition in our ongoing series of original short fiction.

DAVID ADJAYE'S MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE OPENS

With the opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture this weekend, take a look back at our feature on its architect and his global perspective—and his early sketches of the dazzling new museum.

THE LAST WORD: THE TARRED RAT ON 11TH AND FIRST

A Beat-tinged fever dream makes up the latest edition of our ongoing series of original short fiction.

SO-IL

The architect trio has become an art-world favorite thanks to its sensitive, insightful designs for museums and galleries, as well as its gorgeous models, objects of desire in their own right.

CITY BALLET'S NEW COSTUMES

The designers behind ADEAM, Marques’Almeida, and Opening Ceremony contribute costumes to new works premiering tonight at New York City Ballet’s Fall Gala.

BILL CLEGG'S 'DID YOU EVER HAVE A FAMILY'

The literary agent discovers that fiction can be more revealing than memoir in a début novel about loss, regret, and the impossibility of human connection.

TREE OF CODES

A new collaboration from choreographer Wayne McGregor, musician Jamie xx, and artist Olafur Eliasson adapts Jonathan Safran Foer’s story for the stage.

ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN'S 'YOU TOO CAN HAVE A BODY LIKE MINE'

The Last Word contributor debuts a first novel that is an unnervingly weird reflection of the consumerism, capitalism, and television commercials that surround us.