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Matt Damon on working with friend Casey Affleck in 'The Instigators': 'Abandon your ego at the door'

Casey Affleck and Matt Damon ar♔e thieves stealing from a corrupt politician in the AppleTV+ action comedy “The Instigators.”

NYC's best new selfie spots include 'Alice in Wonderland' garden, historic theater

The city is ready for its close-up. ⛎  ⛎

Sip cocktails amid orchids, take a helicopter to see Drake and other NYC events this w✤eek

From the New York Botanical Garden show to exclusive Blade helicopter rides to Drake's concert tour, we've rounded up the best things to do and not-to-miss luxury e🐲vents in NYC...

The Orchid Show: Florals in Fashion at The New York Botanical Garden 𒐪

The Orchid Show, ti💝tl��ed Florals in Fashion," kicked off Friday, Feb. 16, at the New York Botanical Garden.

Rare 'corpse flower' to stink up NYC for first time in years

 Officially known as the Amorphophallus Titanum or Titan-arum, the flower 🌜can grow up to a jaw-dropping 12 feet tall and take as long as seven to 10 years to bloom...

Artist Yayoi Kus𒆙ama believed  Andy Warhol was copying her work

Yayoi Kusama's exhibitions sell out museums around🌟 the world. But the artist's years in NYC — including, she says, getting ripped off by Warhol — left her suicidal. ܫ

Inside artist Yayoi Kusama's trippy New York Botanical Garden exhibit

Yayoi Kusama grew up around flowers and plants, carrying♊ her sketchbook to her family’s♛ seed nursery in rural Japan and drawing the violets and peonies. When she was 11, her...

NYC's yellow ribbon of 8 million daffodils a living memorial to 9/11

The yellow ribbon of some 8 million daffodils wrapping itsel𒁏f around New York City this week, born as a gift of Dutch flower merchants 𝓰in the aftermath of 9/11, has...

NYC's richest cultural institutions received federal bailouts: records

Dozens of the city’s richest cultural organizations scored mill🌠ions in federal bailouts meant for small businesses struggling with the coronavirus pandemic. The Guggenheim Museum, Carnegie Hall, the Whitney Mus꧟eum of...

Orchids are blooming in The Bronx's New York Botanical Garden

Jeff Leatham runs with a rarefied crowd of one-named wonders. Cher, Oprah, Dolly. He lives in the star-studded Benedict Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles. H🃏e's designed floral arrangements for these...

Rare 'corpse flower' returns to stink up NYC this weekend

As ephemeral as life itself, the "corpse flower" is back in full — albeit brief — bloom. The giant, foul-smelling plant only reaches pea💦k flowering for a fleeting 24🌼-to-36-hour period....

Cops pull body from Bronx River in New York Bot✱anical Gardens

 Police pulled t🍃he body of an elderly man out of the Bronx River Saturday afternoon, officials said. The man, who has yet to be identified, was found floating face down...

There's a new Awkwafina in town and it's gorgeous

The 17th annual Orchid Show at the New York Botanica🐎l Garden has a Singapore theme — and a celebrity twist. Makin♈g its colorful debut is a new hybrid orchid, Vanda...

This rarওe flower is making NYC stink even more this summer 

It’s a smell that’s to die for. A corpse fl✨ower, one of the world’s largest and rarest flowers, finally bloomed this week at the New York Botanical Garden inꦿ The...

See the real-life flowers that inspired O'Keeffe's tropical period

In 1939, Georgia O’K🌸eeffe flew to Hawaii to paint pictures ... for a pineapple-juice ad. Then 51 and famed for her flower paintings, she was offered an all-expenses-paid trip to...

Spring's here at NYC's orchid show

An 18-foot-tall orchid sculpture (left) by Belgian floral designer Daniel Ost is a highlight of The Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden. O𒅌ther beauties among the hundreds of...

💮 Botanical Garden blocked min𒆙ority kids from seeing exhibit: suit

Bigotry bloomed during a field trip to the New York B🧜otജanical Gardens, where a group of minority public-school students were allegedly kept out of an exhibit while white kids were...

These stunning orchids will blow your mind 🍎

๊ Patches of bright snow remind you that we are still in the depths of winter, but inside the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden,💞 spring is...