Who’s to Blame in “The White Lotus”?

In the weeks since the release of Mike White’s latest HBO series, debate has centered on the show’s politics. Is it liberal satire or spectacle? 

Vikram Murthi

Fulton Leroy Washington Was a Prison Painter. Now He’s an Art-World Star.

The 66-year-old wants to use Black art to transform Compton.

Karlos K. Hill

Drowning Creek

Ada Limón

Adam Curtis’s Modern Discontents

In his new eight-hour epic, the British filmmaker offers a globe-trotting chronicle of our times. 

Kevin Lozano

Art and Exile in the Third Republic

James McAuley’s The House of Fragile Things examines the travails of a circle of Jewish art collectors, tracing a history of betrayal and dispossession.

Hannah Stamler

The Liberation of Alice Neel

Her paintings were a site of expression for populist politics and in her art she found something close to freedom from the doldrums of her personal life.

Jillian Steinhauer

“Zola” and the Limits of the Internet Movie

An adaptation of a viral Twitter thread only scratches the surface of how film storytelling might intersect with life online.

Erin Schwartz

Bourdain’s Wake

How to tell the story of Anthony Bourdain? 

Jeet Heer

Luchita Hurtado’s Spiritual Modernism

Her paintings strove to convey the ways sublime experience could be found in nature and the body.  

Max Pearl

Sell This Book!

Corporate publishing wants to turn all readers into renters. We’re trying to stop them.

Maria Bustillos