Over a century ago, J.P. Morgan built a majestic library for his opulent mansion in Midtown Manhattan. After his death, his son, the financier Jack Morgan, opened it to the public in 1924, and it eventually became the Morgan Library & Museum. Last night, crowds of art patrons and well-heeled bibliophiles gathered in that grand…
Frank Popoff, a chief executive and chairman who tried to make Dow Chemical more conciliatory toward regulators and environmentalists in the late 1980s and ’90s, and who prodded the chemical industry to adopt safer practices, died on Feb. 25 at his home in Midland, Mich., where Dow is based. He was 88. A spokesman for…
The F.D.A. will now allow yogurt makers to claim it can — but the evidence is mixed.
An urgent care chain in Ohio may be forced to stop paying rent and other bills to cover salaries. In Florida, a cancer center is racing to find money for chemotherapy drugs to avoid delaying critical treatments for its patients. And in Pennsylvania, a primary care doctor is slashing expenses and pooling all of her…
Louis Vuitton’s watchmaking division has doubled down on its ambitions to sustain rare artisanal handicrafts with the introduction of the Escale Cabinet of Wonders, three upscale métiers d’art watches. They were aesthetically derived from an extensive collection of Japanese tsuba, or sword guards, that were owned by Gaston-Louis Vuitton, the third generation Vuitton, who ran…
Two acts received top billing at MadSoul, a music and arts festival in Florida, on Saturday. The first was Muna, an indie-pop group that opened for Taylor Swift at some Eras Tour stops. The second: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York. She and several elected Democrats shared a stage with musicians like Phoebe Bridgers…
Thaddeus Yan went to Trader Joe’s more than a dozen times last week, but he wasn’t there for groceries. Mr. Yan, a 23-year-old lifestyle content creator in Los Angeles, was searching for a tote bag. Not just any tote bag, though. Trader Joe’s new miniature tote bag, a version of its standard canvas bag that…
Last week, I asked for your favorite brilliant and easy dinners after I shared a new one of mine, Eric Kim’s peanut butter noodles. I got an email from a reader named Lia that was so attuned to the prompt that I’m sharing it here. It’s a no-recipe recipe for roasted salmon, and to me…
Headliner Marc179, the Chef’s Counter at Greywind You’ll be able to dine at this pair of new restaurants about as often as you receive your electric bill. Marc Murphy, who is opening Marc179, his first restaurant since 2019, will serve dinners three nights each month in the TriBeCa building that had housed Landmarc and which…
In the twenty-six years she lived after World War II, Coco Chanel never publicly apologized for her treacherous behavior during the Nazi Occupation of Paris. While living at the Ritz Hotel with a handsome German spy, she had tried to use the Nazi race laws to wrest control of her perfume company from her Jewish…