Last Friday, Landon Nordeman photographed the opening of “John Waters: Beverly Hills John” at the Marianne Boesky Gallery, in Chelsea. The assembled onlookers were as idiosyncratic as Waters’s art works. Nordeman told me that the crowd resembled “living examples of Waters’s wry, creative expression—it was as though everyone there had come to audition for a role in his next film.”
Thea Traff is a New York-based photographer and photo editor.
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Our Local Correspondents
Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation
How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out.
By Adam Iscoe
The New Yorker Interview
Jonathan Haidt Wants You to Take Away Your Kid’s Phone
The social psychologist discusses the “great rewiring” of children’s brains, why social-media companies are to blame, and how to reverse course.
By David Remnick
Pop Music
The Tortured Poetry of Taylor Swift’s New Album
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By Amanda Petrusich