FEW ARTISTS ARE as closely associated with Lower Manhattan as Jack Whitten, the subject of a major retrospective opening this month at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In 1962, as a student at Cooper Union, he became one of the first artists to settle below Canal Street, at an address on the corner of…
Our 52 Places to Go Lists Show How Travel Has Changed Over 20 Years
Those dark days began almost five years ago. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic, and four days later, U.S. states began to order shutdowns and travel restrictions. By the end of the month, the European Union had barred nonessential travel from outside the bloc, cruise ships were under a…
Before the deadly plane crash on Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan National Airport, there were at least 10 close calls at the Washington airport in the last three years that were documented in government records reviewed by The New York Times. One of the most alarming came last April, when a Southwest Airlines flight was…
Icon of a wilting palm tree Fighting the crowds The popular use of the word “overtourism” can be traced to a 2016 article about Iceland in Skift, a travel-industry publication. But it’s been a theme on the list since at least 2006, when we suggested Istria, in northern Croatia, as an alternative for “foodies weary…