Atlantis

Photo: Don Emmert/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

NYTimes: Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday after its final mission.

1927

From Flowing Data: Map from Paramount Studios, produced in 1927, showed investors locations that would replicate far-off locales without leaving California. I live in Bret Harte, California, just south of Spanish California.

New York City

Béatrice de Géa for The New York Times
NYTimes: Lincoln Center’s new lawn, atop a two-story structure along West 65th Street, curves up on two ends and is adjacent to a extended reflecting pool and a grove of trees.

Photo: Tony Cenicola

For NYTimes: Marijuana Fuels a New Kitchen Culture

White Brick

Linen

Adam Kimmel linen blazer, $1,312 at Barneys; Neil Barrett short-sleeve cotton button-down shirt, $425, and Alexander Olch linen tie, $140, both at Bergdorf Goodman.

Credit: Richard Phibbs for The New York Times

Catskills

Patmos

Photo: Jim Greenberg
The new wall. Building progresses.

Stephen Fry

When I was growing up ‘elitism’ was a word sneered from the lips of the Left, now it is sneered from the lips of the Right. The sneering was ugly then and it is ugly now. Knowledge, science, understanding, literacy and curiosity are absolute goods and to hell with anyone who tries to follow that American habit here and attempts to construct a discourse in which only a despised liberal elite are interested in science, the arts, history and ideas. Such wickedness reminds one of those who opposed Education For All at the end of the nineteenth century. All knowledge should be free and available and all people should be encouraged to acquire it. It will not necessarily lead to liberalism, but it will lead to understanding and a desire for openness and decent, non-tribalist exchanges of the kind that can only enrich our democracy.

bulthaup

Kitchen design

Illustrator: Stina Löfgren

NYTimes:
Book Review
KISSING THE MASK
Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater With Some Thoughts on Muses (Especially Helga Testorf), Transgender Women, Kabuki Goddesses, Porn Queens, Poets, Housewives, Makeup Artists, Geishas, Valkyries and Venus Figurines
By William T. Vollmann