This is the first Art Diary of 2025. Viewing art, as with its making, involves paying attention. As Simone Weil once pointed out, paying attention equates to prayer. is a watershed in 20th-century ...

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The hemline index correlates the strength of the economy with women’s skirt lengths—minis in a bull market, midis in bear. In our sociopolitical moment, it could make more sense to consider ...