Robert Sullivan

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Robert Sullivan

The Federal Aviation Administration’s William J. Hughes Technical Center is a five-thousand-acre campus in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, a few miles from the end of the Atlantic City Expressway. In contrast to the casinos across the bay, where risk is valued, the engineers, mathematicians, and chemists at the tech center work to eliminate risk, testing and researching airplane and airport design and managing safety in what the F.A.A. calls the National Airspace System, or NAS.

1 month ago | vogue.com | Robert Sullivan

While hanging Cecily Brown’s new exhibition, the curators at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia noticed that Brown, the British-born, New York City-based painter, would suddenly slip away, stepping out of the special exhibition space where her show was being installed and into the museum’s storied rooms of paintings.

2 months ago | vogue.com | Robert Sullivan

Products are independently selected by our editors. We may earn an affiliate commission from links. At the center of all the televised festivities for the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live is Lorne Michaels, the dry-humored Canadian who, when Johnny Carson stopped airing reruns of The Tonight Show on Saturday nights (he wanted to run them during the week, in order to take time off), created a live sketch comedy show to fill that 11:30 spot. It was 1975.

Dec 23, 2024 | newyorker.com | Robert Sullivan

The sky started looking unusual in November—first in central Jersey, along the Raritan River, then north, into the Highlands. Then drones were spotted in Monmouth County, where the sheriff told Fox News that he wants the legal authority to “de-drone.” Drones were in the Pine Barrens, inching into Staten Island, and also in the Bronx.

Apr 12, 2024 | vogue.com | Robert Sullivan

In the 1970s, photography took off. It was already vibrant (just see the documentary work of Diane Arbus or Lee Friedlander in the 1950s and ’60s), but by the 1970s, the art form that spent its first century and a half never quite able to prove itself as such was suddenly finding its way into more galleries and museums. It was serving as a site of experimentation—not just with form but also process, and what a photograph or a body of photographs could represent.