the approval matrix

Where Will We Pee Now?

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 (Trump, Adams, de Blasio, Bezos); Yohann Ndoye Brouard/X (Olympic medal); Fox5 (Barzini’s); FreedomnewsTV (MTA); MELANIATRUMP/X ($MELANIA)
Photo: Getty Images (Flaco, Ragbir, Peck); oscardelarenta/Instagram; ©Young Do Jeong, Courtesy of Chart gallery, New York; queenmerylofhollywood/Instagram (Streep); Kino Lorber/YouTube (The Annihilation of Fish); Giorgio Morandi, Natura morta (Still Life), 1942/ © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome Collection of Fondazione Magnani-Rocca, Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma), Italy/Courtesy David Zwirner
Photo: Getty Images (TikTok, Starbucks, Cars, Vance, Musk, Snoop Dogg, Kelces); A24 (Brutalist); Keith Srakocic/AP (Cellphone ban); Shutterstock (Netflix)
Photo: Getty Images (Whitmer, Kele, Mogwai, Soccer Mommy); Warrick Page/Max (The Pitt); Courtesy the publisher (Dare I Say It); Deep Silver/Rock Paper Shotgun (Kingdom Come); TriStar Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection (One of Them Days); Disney/Jim McCambridge (Roy Wood Jr.)

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