Arts and Entertainment

Luchita Hurtado, 1940 / Untitled (1971) Courtesy The Estate of Luchita Hurtado and Hauser & Wirth

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

Phone

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

Washington Square Park protest

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 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 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

Nation Poetry

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

Nation Poetry

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

In My Own Private Utopia, There Is No Rain—or Republicans

In My Own Private Utopia, There Is No Rain—or Republicans In My Own Private Utopia, There Is No Rain—or Republicans

In The Sims, one of my favorite video games, my goal is for everyone to be as happy as possible.

Jul 16, 2021 / Feature / Elie Mystal

Gattaca

Which Is the More Prescient Dystopia? ‘Gattaca’ or ‘Parable of the Sower’ Which Is the More Prescient Dystopia? ‘Gattaca’ or ‘Parable of the Sower’

Is it the 1997 film starring Ethan Hawke or is it Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 novel?

Jul 16, 2021 / The Debate / David M. Perry and Niela Orr

In Utopia, I Never Have to Write About Immigration Again

In Utopia, I Never Have to Write About Immigration Again In Utopia, I Never Have to Write About Immigration Again

In a world without borders, migrants can be people—and migrant artists can, perhaps, be free.

Jul 15, 2021 / Feature / Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

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