This Banksy mural of a man scrubbing his back in a bathtub appeared in 2022 on a wall of a destroyed building in the Ukrainian village of Horenka. The mural piqued the interest of a Reuters journalist, setting off an effort to identify and understand the elusive artist. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

In Search of Banksy

The British street artist’s identity has been debated, and closely guarded, for decades. A quest to solve the riddle took Reuters from a bombed-out Ukrainian village to London and downtown Manhattan — and uncovered much more than a name.

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Installation shot of the Sopranos exhibition at the Museum of Moving Image. Photo: Thanassi Karageorgiou/Museum of Moving Image.

Behind the Scenes of ‘The Sopranos’: A New Exhibition Revisits TV’s Favorite Mob Drama

A new show at the Museum of Moving Image (MoMI), “Stories and Set Designs for The Sopranos,” captures the urgent energy channeled by Chase and his team of collaborators as they turned daring pilot into a show that would pave the way for a golden age of television.

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For the Serpentine Pavilion installation, he balanced a light-filtering fiberglass shell on hulking, rough-hewed stones. Credit...Iwan Baan

A Chilean Master of Modest Design Wins Architecture’s Top Prize

Wind. Light. Stone. Timber. Time.

These are some of the essential elements that infuse the work of Smiljan Radic of Santiago, Chile, the winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor.

The announcement of the laureate had been delayed by revelations about the connection between Tom Pritzker, the director of the foundation that awards the prize, and Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier.

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