Arts and Entertainment

Drifting With the Current

Drifting With the Current Drifting With the Current

In the Last Days of the City is a richly sensuous film that strives to accommodate the thick, shifting layers of sight and sound that overwhelm verbal descriptions of Cairo.

Apr 23, 2018 / Stuart Klawans

80 Days That Changed America

80 Days That Changed America 80 Days That Changed America

Fifty years later, Bobby Kennedy’s passionate, inspiring, and tragic presidential campaign still fascinates. Two new projects explain why.

Apr 23, 2018 / Joan Walsh

Waste My Life

Waste My Life Waste My Life

sleep, boredom, gossip, cruelty imaginary feuds and small resentments various, complex plans that amount to nothing at some point, every poet has to admit art is just a distraction…

Apr 19, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Hera Lindsay Bird

Ode to the Belt

Ode to the Belt Ode to the Belt

it’s clear the future does not bode well for the living my man wont let me forget where leather comes from the engineered animal bent over in chemical grass the slit thing hanged &…

Apr 19, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Sam Sax

Puzzle No. 3464

Puzzle No. 3464 Puzzle No. 3464

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Momentous heart? (5-10)  9 Essential energy reflected the sound of a cat and the sound of a bird (7) 10 Backslide a…

Apr 19, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Joan Jonas’s Fragments

Joan Jonas’s Fragments Joan Jonas’s Fragments

More than anything else, time itself is the material Jonas works with, manipulating it as a sculptor might mold clay.

Apr 19, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

Jokes on Trump, Joke’s on Us

Jokes on Trump, Joke’s on Us Jokes on Trump, Joke’s on Us

Aside from relieving liberal stress, what can anti-Trump satire accomplish?

Apr 5, 2018 / Leslie Savan

Puzzle No. 3463

Puzzle No. 3463 Puzzle No. 3463

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Objectively, I pester an Indian tribe: It supplies three letters for the wordplay in each remaining Across entry (9…

Apr 5, 2018 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

The Ubiquitous Medium

The Ubiquitous Medium The Ubiquitous Medium

Carissa Rodriguez’s work leads viewers to scrutinize our choices and values as they relate to video—to recording and being recorded.

Mar 30, 2018 / Larissa Pham

Flirtations With Anarchy

Flirtations With Anarchy Flirtations With Anarchy

Two new films take different approaches to Joseph Stalin and Karl Marx, two major figures of modern political history.

Mar 30, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

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