The Year in Micro News
The New York Times
Blink and you might have missed these viral but fleeting moments.
Plenty of big news happened in 2024. A top presidential candidate dropped out of the race late; another survived two assassination attempts; and voters rejected the incumbent administration at the ballot box. This year also included conflicts abroad, the Summer Olympics and two (yes, two) Emmy Award ceremonies.
But between these major flash points were hundreds of smaller moments.
While viral videos like “demure” and beloved animals like Moo Deng were virtually unavoidable — and quickly became part of mainstream culture — it’s possible you didn’t hear about “yapping” or know that another Pygmy hippo, named Haggis, was also born this year.
Maybe you can’t forget that you, in fact, “exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you,” but are you “holding space” for P’Nut the squirrel? (And if you can comprehend that sentence, you might have “brain rot.”)
This is the year in micro news, an attempt to burst your algorithmic bubble and remind you of everything you already forgot about — or maybe never knew about in the first place.
Rachel Handlin is possibly the first person with Down syndrome to receive an M.F.A., and one of just a few to hold a bachelor’s. Her first solo show features her portraits of others like her.
With shirts playing off Chapel Hill’s name and cutoff hoodies, a college town immediately embraced the arrival of Bill Belichick in North Carolina.
A half-million people are on the Ffern wait list hoping to do just that.
By breaking the story into two movies, the emphasis in “Part One” shifts to a nation’s potential decline into authoritarianism. Sound familiar?
For a man who rose to fame in the gilded yuppie era of New York City, today’s ringing the bell to open the stock exchange, and being named Person of the Year by Time, must have a certain appeal.
A visual tour of the show that seems to defy all the rules.
This was a year whose high points included Joan Jonas’s luminous survey, the extravaganza “PST ART,” and the 24-karat beauty of a show “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350.”
This visually inventive adaptation of a Colson Whitehead novel follows two boys at an abusive school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
What happens when violent crimes are overshadowed by appearances?
Between her experience on “Babygirl” and her mother’s death, the star has come to understand a lot about women in unfulfilled lives.
As Elon Musk has become a key player in President-elect Donald J. Trump’s world, Tesla owners are marking their cars to signify where they stand — for or against.