A âBlue Bloodsâ Regular on the Importance of âYesâ
For the actor Vanessa Ray, what makes a one-bedroom near Lincoln Center home are a few essentials: Bill Nye, blankets and one three-letter word.
Published April 13, 2021Updated April 15, 2021, 12:01 p.m. ET
Vanessa Ray has lived in New York City on and off for the past decade, renting or subletting in the theater district, on the far reaches of the Upper West Side, in Brooklyn and, more than once, in Lincoln Square.
âI had always watched the Macyâs Thanksgiving Day Parade on television, and when I was starting to pursue being an actor, I was like, âIâm going to shoot my shot in New York,ââ said Ms. Ray, 39, who plays the feisty police officer Eddie Janko, now a regular around the Reagan dinner table, on the long-running CBS police procedural âBlue Bloods.â (The Season 11 finale airs May 14.)
Art Institute of Chicago Names Its Next Board Chief
Denise Gardner, who will start in the post in November, is believed to be the country’s first Black woman to lead a major museum board.
Denise Gardner, who has championed Black artists, as well as art accessibility and education for underrepresented audiences. “In this role, I can help the museum accelerate their progress,” she said.Credit.Lori Sapio, via Art Institute of Chicago
April 13, 2021, 1:32 p.m. ET
The longtime art collector and marketing executive Denise Gardner will become the chairwoman of the Art Institute of Chicago in November, perhaps the country’s first Black woman to hold that position on a major museum board.
This Heroin-Using Professor Wants to Change How We Think About Drugs
Prof. Carl Hart saw drugs as destroyers of communities. Then he saw the positive side. “We have miseducated the public,” he said.
Carl Hart of Columbia University says that most of the millions of Americans who use illegal drugs have overwhelmingly positive experiences.Credit.Simbarashe Cha for The New York Times
April 10, 2021
Carl L. Hart, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, fielded questions the other day about his new book, which makes an unconventional case for drug use.
Dr. Hart, are you on anything now?
“No. I’m in interview season now,” he said on a recent afternoon. “Why would you waste your substance on an interview? You have to concentrate and focus.”
20 Years. 100 Watches, and Counting.
The British watchmaker Roger W. Smith considers the future.
Roger W. Smith in his workshop on the Isle of Man, in Britain. The waiting time for a new R.W. Smith watch is now five years.Credit.Stephen Daniels
By Simon De Burton
April 6, 2021
Rolex does not release its production figures, but those who have tried to calculate them say they believe that the big beast of Swiss horology churns out at least 800,000 units annually from its Geneva headquarters. Divided by 365 days, that equates to an average of 2,191 watches every 24 hours.
About 900 miles away on the Isle of Man, a relative dot that the local ferry service says is just 33 miles long by 13 miles wide in the Irish Sea, the independent maker Roger W. Smith hopes this year to celebrate his 20 years in business during which time he has completed precisely 100 watches.