Arts and Entertainment

Common

Common and the New Aesthetics of Blackness Common and the New Aesthetics of Blackness

Rap music’s nice guy plays it safe on his new album Black America Again.

Nov 5, 2016 / Marcus J. Moore

Julliard Students Protest

New York City Students Tell Westboro Baptist Church That ‘God Loves Jazz’ New York City Students Tell Westboro Baptist Church That ‘God Loves Jazz’

Students countered a hateful Westboro protest with a spirited, impromptu concert.

Nov 4, 2016 / StudentNation / Peter Rothberg

Puzzle No. 3414

Puzzle No. 3414 Puzzle No. 3414

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Father is someone expressing regret aloud (4)  3 Dutchcummerbund who was the first European to reach New Zealand (4…

Nov 3, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Donald Glover’s Show About Nothing

Donald Glover’s Show About Nothing Donald Glover’s Show About Nothing

Atlanta’s surreal comedy and steady stream of reality checks.

Nov 2, 2016 / K. Leander Williams

Cosmopolitan Pop

Cosmopolitan Pop Cosmopolitan Pop

DJ /rupture and MIA capture the new global spirit of pop music.

Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

Domino Effect

Domino Effect Domino Effect

For an erection lasting more than four hours tell him you don’t agree with him. The most desirable of her pots authored a vast intelligence. Don’t make me sick of this, followed ev…

Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / John Ashbery

The Overhead

The Overhead The Overhead

For two decades we kept Mum in the attic. Finally, one hubba hubba day in spring we let her out to walk in the park. She was never seen again. The police refused to inspect the par…

Nov 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / John Ashbery

Puzzle No. 3413

Puzzle No. 3413 Puzzle No. 3413

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 An English seductress might know what makes this something for your lips (9)  6 One radical restrains really, reall…

Oct 27, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Twenty-Four Hours From Home

Twenty-Four Hours From Home Twenty-Four Hours From Home

Where, Ms. Bishop, should the boy and I be today? All precedent’s out of the question, the question out of something like itself but lacking answer. What we have here’s here as if…

Oct 27, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Graham Foust

The Brilliance of Lines

The Brilliance of Lines The Brilliance of Lines

Agnes Martin at the Guggenheim and Carmen Herrera at the Whitney.

Oct 26, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky

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