While the architect’s approach to restoring France’s medieval buildings remains controversial, his many and varied talents are still utterly awe-inspiring
Finishing the Sagrada Família
Antonio Gaudi’s masterpiece is nearing completion a century after the architect’s death
When it comes to views of Venice, Canaletto is still master of all he surveys
Demand for the best paintings of the city shows no sign of sinking, but some artists have a more buoyant market than others
Should museums be making spectacles of themselves?
If galleries and institutions want to grow their visitor numbers, they need to add style to their substance
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE:The 12.28.25 Issue remembers some of the artists, thinkers and innovators who we lost this year, including: Jane Goodall, Marcia Marcus, George Foreman, Anna Ornstein, Diane Keaton, Assata Shakur, and more.
Paul Wick of Seligman Investments has piloted his winning fund through numerous technology cycles. How he is playing AI, and why he is skeptical of quantum computing stocks.
The event’s host, the musician Chuck Redd, called off the annual Christmas Eve performances in protest of the site’s new name, the Trump-Kennedy Center.
The attack came after President Trump had ordered the Defense Department to prepare to intervene in Nigeria to protect Christians from Islamic militants.
Zelensky Says He Will Meet President Soon
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Friday that he would meet soon with President Trump, as Ukraine and the United States try to keep momentum going in American-led efforts to end the war with Russia.
The first draft essentially called for Ukraine’s surrender. This version includes the security guarantees Kyiv wants to prevent future Russian aggression.
Jonathan Self recalls the ‘railway mania’ that gripped the nation after the inaugural 26-mile run of Stephenson’s Locomotion No.1 from Shildon to Stockton
Mind the (hungry) gap!
Starched tablecloths and wood panelling have Emma Hughes dreaming of a return to the golden age of railway dining
Nature on track
The 20,000 miles of railway lines criss-crossing the country are welcome ‘green corridors’ for wildlife, finds Vicky Liddell
Small, but mighty
Octavia Pollock marvels at the magic of miniature railways tracing small-gauge tracks across the British countryside
Rhythm of the night
There is a wonderful sense of romance and adventure in over-night rail travel. Mary Miers revels in the sleeper-train experience
All signals green
From Suffolk to Scotland, via the Settle-Carlisle line, blooming station gardens are a sight to behold for Andrew Martin
Picking up steam
All aboard! Octavia Pollock hails the heroes of heritage railways who ensure our fascination with the age of steam rolls on and on
Drawing tracks
Carla Passino explores art’s love affair with the railway, seen in the bustle of Earl’s platforms and the serenity of a Ravilious carriage
Why don’t we ask the next train to take our love to Daddy?
The much-loved locomotives of literature reveal the softening of our attitudes to steam travel, suggests Deborah Nicholls-Lee
Rail travel
Emma Love lets the train take the strain as she rounds up the latest in luxury journeys, calling at stations from Rome to Rajasthan
The missing lynx in the food chain?
Roger Morgan-Grenville weighs up the pros and cons of calls to reintroduce an apex predator — the lynx — to the British Isles
Properties of the week
Julie Harding gets the party started with a quintet of homes boasting entertaining spaces
Sacred grounds
Tim Richardson applauds Paulo Pejrone’s revival of the 16th-century monastic gardens of Il Redentore in Venice, Italy
The offer was the closest President Volodymyr Zelensky has come to addressing the territorial disputes in Donetsk that have repeatedly derailed peace talks.
At the last minute, CBS News held a segment about Venezuelan men who were deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador. It surfaced anyway.
Weary of war and staring down the likelihood of an unjust peace, Ukrainian intellectuals are plotting out a road map for the future.
East Side Story
Josh Safdie’s new film, starring Timothée Chalamet, is both a character study of monomania and a moving fable of how the American century of table tennis was lost.
L’Affaire Carlson
Concern over antisemitism on the right has split the conservative world in two—and GOP gatekeepers have lost the ability to contain it.
‘They Killed Our People’
More than a century after white mobs in Elaine, Arkansas, murdered hundreds of black sharecroppers in 1919, the massacre’s memory remains contested.
‘The Ancient and Long-Forgotten Language of Cinematography’
If the movies are dead, why does Bi Gan’s Resurrection feel so alive?
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