the approval matrix

In the Grimace Seat

Photo: New York Magazine

Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable. Tap or click each image below to enlarge.

Photo: Getty Images (Adams, shooting, Dom Pérignon, Caban, Springfield, Vance, corpses); Associated Press (FDNY); TeamTrump/X (Eras Tour); JoyceMeetsWorld/X (NYPD)
Photo: HarperVia (Almodóvar); La Grenouille; © Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University. Photo by John Lindquist (Ailey); Getty Images (Tilson Thomas; Boston Marathon); Hogarth (Enriquez); Ricco/Maresca, New York (Doi); Paoala Kudacki/Met Opera (Grounded); Penguin Random House (Heath); David Zwirner, Los Angeles (Neel)
Photo: Getty Images (Jane’s Addiction, Lil Wayne, flu, restaurant, Grohl, Kennedy); New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (condoms); Lunchly/Instagram; Facebook (abortion); Pixar (Inside Out 2)
Photo: Troye Sivan/Instagram (Sweat); Getty Images (Shogun, The Bear, Kendrick, Drake); Iconic Candy (Altoids); Facebook (OMNY); Mariah Carey/X (China); shwazinator/Reddit (taggers); SNY Mets/X (Grimace); Nilüfer Yanya/Instagram

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