The Liberation of Alice Neel 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.
Aug 10, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jillian Steinhauer
“Zola” and the Limits of the Internet Movie “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.
Aug 5, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Erin Schwartz
Bourdain’s Wake Bourdain’s Wake
How to tell the story of Anthony Bourdain?
Aug 4, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Jeet Heer
Luchita Hurtado’s Spiritual Modernism Luchita Hurtado’s Spiritual Modernism
Her paintings strove to convey the ways sublime experience could be found in nature and the body.
Aug 4, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Max Pearl
Sell This Book! Sell This Book!
Corporate publishing wants to turn all readers into renters. We’re trying to stop them.
Aug 3, 2021 / Column / Maria Bustillos
Welcome to Washington Square Park, Capital of Woke Bohemia Welcome to Washington Square Park, Capital of Woke Bohemia
A vibrant new youth scene is taking shape in Greenwich Village. Some people want to shut it down.
Jul 30, 2021 / Richard Goldstein
What the Harlem Cultural Festival Represented What the Harlem Cultural Festival Represented
Questlove’s debut as a director, the documentary Summer of Soul, revisits a musical event that encapsulated the energies of Harlem in the 1960s.
Jul 29, 2021 / Books & the Arts / David Hajdu
Barry Jenkins’s American Saga Barry Jenkins’s American Saga
In The Underground Railroad, Jenkins focuses how people survived slavery rather than on its brutality.
Jul 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse
Celebrate Good Times Celebrate Good Times
The regime is having a birthday party, so we turn off the lights and pretend we’re sick. All night, happy americans honk their horns. We did it! they scream into our window. In the…
Jul 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Franny Choi
A Violent End A Violent End
the bears were swiping at the river getting nowhere Look I said to the bears the salmon are all gone because of I pointed that factory upstream What factory they said so I explaine…
Jul 27, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Ben Purkert