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The Hamptons Film Festival Opens Tonight With Peter Farrelly's I Play Rocky, Starting an 11-Day Run

The 34th Hamptons International Film Festival begins on Friday with the East Coast premiere of a film about how Sylvester Stallone fought to write and star in Rocky, and runs to 12 October.

Oct 2, 2026/2 min read

Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, a cultural venue in the town that hosts the festival, photographed in March 2012 and not an image from this year's opening night

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The British Museum's New Korea Show Traces 2,000 Years of Art the Institution Had Never Given Its Own Exhibition Before

Korea, which opens 1 October in the Joseph Hotung Great Court Gallery, is the British Museum's first major exhibition devoted to Korean art and history in more than 40 years, drawing partly on the late Samsung chairman's donated collection.

Oct 1, 2026/2 min read

Traditional Korean earthenware storage jars, known as jangdok, photographed in Gangjin, South Korea in May 2015, illustrative of Korean ceramic craft and not an object from the exhibition itself

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David Hartt Turned the Met's Own Versailles Panorama Into a Meditation on Paris's Forgotten Edges

A new site-specific installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art pairs John Vanderlyn's 1819 panorama of Versailles with David Hartt's film of Paris's ring road and margins, scored by musician Jeff Parker.

Sep 29, 2026/2 min read

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Fifth Avenue entrance in New York, home of the Peripheries installation, photographed prior to the exhibition opening

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The New York Times and A24 Joined a Crowded Field Bidding to Buy Letterboxd for More Than $300 Million

The film social network's majority owner Tiny is fielding offers from Sony, Netflix, Paramount, private equity firms and now the Times and A24, a field wide enough that dealmakers are calling the platform a phenomenon.

Sep 27, 2026/2 min read

The IFC Center, an independent movie theatre in New York City, illustrative of the film culture Letterboxd serves and not a party to the sale, photographed in November 2024

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A Paris Exhibition of 350 Objects Traces How 19th-Century Women Used Trousers, Ties and Top Hats to Claim Independence

Opening at the Palais Galliera on 26 September, 'A Wardrobe of One's Own' uses garments once worn by Marie-Antoinette, George Sand and Rosa Bonheur alongside anonymous amateur photographs to show how borrowed menswear became a tool of emancipation.

Sep 27, 2026/2 min read

The Palais Galliera building in Paris, home of the exhibition, photographed in May 2016

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Arthur Jafa's Largest Museum Survey, 'I Am Tony', Opens Across Two Floors of New York's New Museum

The show gathers nearly four decades of the filmmaker and artist's work, including his Golden Lion-winning film The White Album and the widely shown video Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death, alongside new paintings and sculpture.

Sep 26, 2026/2 min read

The stacked, mesh-clad boxes of the New Museum on the Bowery in New York, the building where the exhibition is held, photographed on 10 November 2008, a file photograph of the museum and not of the show

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Swicy, Nostalgia and a Duck Comeback: What Fast Food Chains Are Actually Serving This Autumn

Taco Bell paired with Olivia Rodrigo for a pink Baja Blast, Chick-fil-A launched a chicken and waffle breakfast sandwich, and P.F. Chang's brought duck back after a decade. Chains are chasing sweet-and-spicy flavour and old favourites over pumpkin spice.

Sep 25, 2026/2 min read

A hamburger and French fries, illustrative of the fast food chains covered and not a specific chain's own product, photographed in March 2024

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The Home First Aid Kit: What Belongs in It, What Does Not, and How Often to Check It

A useful kit is small, current and findable. Dressings, a thermometer, tweezers, gloves and a few basic medicines cover most household accidents. The rest is knowing what to do, which a short course teaches better than any box.

Sep 19, 2026/3 min read

Red metal first aid tins marked with plaster crosses, a stand-in for a household kit and not a fully stocked one, photographed in January 2009

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Dinacharya Said Eat Your Largest Meal at Midday, and Chronobiology Spent the Last Decade Agreeing

The Ayurvedic daily routine and modern circadian science reach several of the same conclusions from completely different premises. Where they converge is worth taking seriously, and where they part company is worth being honest about.

Sep 4, 2026/4 min read

Sunrise over tea plantations and layered mountain ridges at Munnar in Kerala, the low early light that the Ayurvedic daily routine is built around

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Forest Bathing Has Real Data and One Awkward Finding About Anticipation

Shinrin-yoku has produced a body of research showing reduced cortisol and blood pressure after time among trees. It has also produced evidence that expecting to go may lower cortisol by itself, which complicates the story usefully.

Sep 4, 2026/3 min read

Sunlight breaking through the canopy of a broadleaf woodland onto dense green undergrowth

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Brahma Muhurta Says Rise Before Dawn, and Roughly Half Your Wake Time Was Decided by Your Genes

The Ayurvedic instruction to wake around ninety minutes before sunrise is good advice for some people and a recipe for chronic sleep debt for others. Chronotype is substantially heritable, and willpower does not move it far.

Sep 4, 2026/3 min read

Mist over a river at first light, the sun still low enough to be diffused by the fog