Week 12: Lime Week 12: Lime
the face looks unquestionably human, the update tells you, eyes have moved from sides to front of the head, ears right where they should be and you wander your fingers along their…
Jun 18, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Julia Kochinsky Dasbach
Gretchen Bender’s Video Art Predicted the Bleak Future of Mass Media Gretchen Bender’s Video Art Predicted the Bleak Future of Mass Media
A retrospective of her art looks at the Pandora's box television unleashed and how we continue to reckon with the effects of an unrelenting, 24/7 visual culture.
Jun 17, 2019 / Hannah Stamler
Photographing the Otherworldly and the Abject Photographing the Otherworldly and the Abject
Barbara Ess’s lo-fi photos, which pluck scenes from our culture’s surveillance regime, make the banal seem terrifying and mystical.
Jun 14, 2019 / Barry Schwabsky
Puzzle No. 3502 Puzzle No. 3502
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Jerry and Carol translated Spanish poet (6,5) 7 and 27 Exclude that subatomic particle (6) 9 Split part of simple…
Jun 13, 2019 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
A Short History of Country Music’s Multicultural Mishmash A Short History of Country Music’s Multicultural Mishmash
Or everything that came before Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus walked down that “Old Town Road.”
Jun 7, 2019 / David Hajdu
‘The Sopranos’ Is the Id of New Jersey ‘The Sopranos’ Is the Id of New Jersey
How the Garden State’s surreal political culture made its most famous television show.
Jun 6, 2019 / Erin Schwartz
Bill Moyers Is Still the Best President We Never Had Bill Moyers Is Still the Best President We Never Had
Many years ago, Molly Ivins tried to get a fellow Texan to make an unlikely bid for the White House.
Jun 5, 2019 / John Nichols
Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five Film Captures Every Injustice in Vivid Detail Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five Film Captures Every Injustice in Vivid Detail
When They See Us, Ava DuVernay’s four-part dramatization of the story, goes farther than any of her previous work.
Jun 5, 2019 / Stuart Klawans
‘Blood,’ the Anthem of Sudan’s Revolution, Takes on New Meaning Amid Violent Repression ‘Blood,’ the Anthem of Sudan’s Revolution, Takes on New Meaning Amid Violent Repression
A new generation of musicians and artists has been inspired by—and is inspiring—the uprising.
Jun 4, 2019 / Isma’il Kushkush
