Werner Herzog’s Curious Love Letter to Mikhail Gorbachev Werner Herzog’s Curious Love Letter to Mikhail Gorbachev
In Herzog’s latest film, Meeting Gorbachev, we end up learning a lot more about the director than about his subject.
May 24, 2019 / Elena Goukassian
On the Passing of Former WWE ‘Diva’ and Whistle-Blower Ashley Massaro On the Passing of Former WWE ‘Diva’ and Whistle-Blower Ashley Massaro
She will be remembered for her courageous truth-telling.
May 23, 2019 / Dave Zirin
Lincoln Kirstein’s Intimate Modernism Lincoln Kirstein’s Intimate Modernism
A new show at the MoMA illustrates how one of New York’s great cultural impresarios and writers espoused a more magical realist vision of modern art history.
May 23, 2019 / Barry Schwabsky
The Shed Sucks: A Dispatch From New York’s Latest Cultural Megaspace The Shed Sucks: A Dispatch From New York’s Latest Cultural Megaspace
The Hudson Yards cultural center proves—yet again—that art is inseparable from commerce.
May 23, 2019 / Tiana Reid
Morgan Bassichis’s Haunted American Songbook Morgan Bassichis’s Haunted American Songbook
The performer’s work presents a riotous vision of what an intergenerational left might look like.
May 23, 2019 / Ari M. Brostoff
Mange Meat Mange Meat
We’re so late-stage that we trade our storm-wet cash for synthetic fuzz, as if fleece wasn’t the shorn warmth of a bleating thing. There is a new wolf in me this winter and I can’t…
May 21, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Alicia Mountain
Eurovision’s Muddled DNA Eurovision’s Muddled DNA
Pop genetics don’t belong in a musical event—or its marketing.
May 16, 2019 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Faith and Change in ‘Amazing Grace’ and ‘The Silence of Others’ Faith and Change in ‘Amazing Grace’ and ‘The Silence of Others’
How two new films confront the different ways communities handle religion and forgiveness.
May 16, 2019 / Stuart Klawans
Puzzle No. 3500 Puzzle No. 3500
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Alert: Spanish uncle vanished with slip of the lip over my dead body (3,2,1,3,4,2) 9 Fed reorganized, amid loud ca…
May 16, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
The Legend of the Spider Woman: Imagining the Mind of Louise Bourgeois The Legend of the Spider Woman: Imagining the Mind of Louise Bourgeois
Jean Frémon’s book about her life and art is a perceptive but flawed attempt to understand the inner workings and inspirations of the brilliant artist.
May 15, 2019 / Jillian Steinhauer