Nicole Eisenman’s Path to Genius Nicole Eisenman’s Path to Genius
In the early 2000s, the painter rediscovered a strain of modernism that doesn’t aspire to purity or certainty, but rather is willing to remain, as de Kooning once put it, “wrapped ...
Jul 14, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Lies After the War Lies After the War
We went to Bull Run, or was it Manassas, one of those, past Battlefield Ford, past Glory Days bar in the strip mall, or was it before the mall was built, or was it after the mall…
Jul 14, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Miller Oberman
Puzzle No. 3403 Puzzle No. 3403
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Block Pat’s construction with asphalt (8) 6 Some fakirs cherish alcoholic drink (6) 9 An embankment for a legenda…
Jul 14, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Drumpf: The Musical Drumpf: The Musical
The story of the real-estate mogul’s rise through the 2016 Republican primary slog.
Jul 11, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
How the US and Israel Almost Caused Global Computer Catastrophe How the US and Israel Almost Caused Global Computer Catastrophe
In Zero Days, Alex Gibney examines the terrifying potential of cyberwarfare.
Jul 8, 2016 / Margaret Spillane
The Liberal Catechism The Liberal Catechism
The allegory in the latest installment of The Purge is pretty clear: Election 2016.
Jul 8, 2016 / Joshua Clover
Puzzle No. 3402 Puzzle No. 3402
Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS 1 Legume enthusiast catches Gardner with bare shoulders (4,4) 5 Love to sail to Washington with Native American (6)…
Jun 30, 2016 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto
Instagram and the Fantasy of Mastery Instagram and the Fantasy of Mastery
A “look” is a kind of instant style: quickly executed and dispatched, immediately understood and overcharged with incident. It is time for a new view.
Jun 29, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ricky D’Ambrose
The Big Friendly Director The Big Friendly Director
Steven Spielberg, who has never shown much interest in human-scaled cinema, makes his self-portrait three stories tall in The BFG.
Jun 28, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Seeing Appalachia Through the Eyes of Appalachians Seeing Appalachia Through the Eyes of Appalachians
Several new media projects are re-envisioning a region long stereotyped as backward and ignorant.
Jun 25, 2016 / Photo Essay / Layne Amerikaner