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The Artist’s WAY • Multitalented ESTHER McGREGOR finds her footing in front of the camera

In the CUT • The Costume Institute’s spring exhibition, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” explores the Black dandy through history, from 18th-century expectations to contemporary transformations, while spotlighting the importance of sartorialism

FLORALS for Spring • MoMA presents HILMA af KLINT’s abstract botanical pieces, which juxtapose watercolor blossoms with precise drawings, suggesting the human spirit’s union with nature

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Feeling THIS • In a full-hearted new memoir, Blink-182’s MARK HOPPUS confronts friendship breakups and a cancer diagnosis

SIX PACK • Poetic novels and lyric memoirs plumb grief and longing By Keziah Weir

Good TROUBLE • In the era of Trump 2.0, acts of defiance, big and small, have gotten creative

Poetic HARMONY • With “A Poem for Deep Thinkers” at the Guggenheim Museum, RASHID JOHNSON revisits his archive

Working THROUGH IT • VF’s royals correspondent reveals how she fought her own battle with cancer—while reporting on the Windsors’ diagnoses

THE BARRON Identity • The world’s most famous college freshman is as mysterious a presence at NYU as he is in the American psyche

UNITED WE STAN • FROM MARVEL ANTI-HERO TO TRUMP AND TOMMY LEE, SEBASTIAN STAN HAS EMERGED—SLOWLY AND NOW SEEMINGLY ALL AT ONCE—AS ONE OF THE MORE FEARLESS ACTORS OF OUR TIME

CHANGE AGENT • Ex-CIA analyst ELISSA SLOTKIN, the moderate freshman senator from Michigan, is a rising Democratic star in a party that desperately needs them

FLIGHT RISK • IT’S SUSPECTED THAT A RECENT SPATE OF GLOBAL AVIATION INCIDENTS INVOLVING EXPLODING CARGO, HACKED GPS SYSTEMS, OR SPOOFED COORDINATES TRACES BACK TO RUSSIAN AGGRESSORS. THE SOPHISTICATION OF THE ATTACKS ONLY RIVALS RUSSIA’S PENCHANT FOR BRUTALITY, SO WHAT’S NEXT? THE SKY’S THE LIMIT

ROMAN EMPIRE • JOEANOA’I SLAMMED HIS WAY TO WWE STARDOM AS “ROMAN REIGNS.” NOW THE BRAWNY BRAWLER IS LOOKING TO HOLLYWOOD FOR HIS NEXT STARRING ROLE

IN GOOD COMPANY • AS THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL KICKS OFF ITS PLAN TO GO TUITION-FREE, VF GATHERED SOME AUGUST ALUMNI TO TALK ABOUT MEMORIES AND DREAMS

OPEN ROAD • F1 ACADEMY, THE ALL-WOMEN RACING LEAGUE LAUNCHED IN 2023, IS AIMING ITS DRIVERS AT THE SPORT’S HIGHEST ECHELON

BERNADETTE PETERS • The Broadway legend talks high-maintenance dogs, Chinese philosophy, and her love for Stephen Sondheim