Arts and Entertainment

International Solidarity With Palestine

International Solidarity With Palestine International Solidarity With Palestine

Street mural, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain.

Jul 17, 2024 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Anya Taylor-Joy in “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.”

Why Did “Furiosa” Flop? Why Did “Furiosa” Flop?

A web of interconnected reasons might explain why George Miller’s long-awaited new entry to his Mad Max series failed in the box office.

Jul 10, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Vikram Murthi

Watch while you can: The Daily Show's stage set in New York

How Comedy Central Fell Into Paramount’s Corporate Memory Hole How Comedy Central Fell Into Paramount’s Corporate Memory Hole

The entertainment behemoth deleted 25 years of the groundbreaking network's content prior to its new merger with Skydance—and things are likely to get much worse.

Jul 9, 2024 / Ben Schwartz

Screenshot of CGI image in proposal titled “From Crisis to Prosperity.”

The Awful Plan to Turn Gaza Into the Next Dubai The Awful Plan to Turn Gaza Into the Next Dubai

The Netanyahu administration seems to have learned from neighboring petrostates that spectacle can distract from ethnic cleansing.

Jul 9, 2024 / Column / Kate Wagner

In Poetry’s Church

In Poetry’s Church In Poetry’s Church

More than a half century of the Poetry Project

Jul 8, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Sasha Frere-Jones

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s “Zion, Her Mother Shea, and Her Grandfather Mr. Smiley Riding on Their Tennessee Walking Horses, Mares, P.T. (P.T.’s Miss One of a Kind), Dolly (Secretly), and Blue (Blue’s Royal Threat), Newton, Mississippi.”

LaToya Ruby Frazier Rewrites the Rules of Documentary Photography LaToya Ruby Frazier Rewrites the Rules of Documentary Photography

A new career survey at the MoMA is a perfect illustration of the photographer's mission: to reframe how viewers see the working-class and low-income people whom she counts as kin....

Jul 3, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Jillian Steinhauer

Dear Ron Klain: We Need To Talk About Joe

Dear Ron Klain: We Need To Talk About Joe Dear Ron Klain: We Need To Talk About Joe

To preserve President Biden’s legacy, the party has to find another candidate

Jul 1, 2024 / Jeet Heer

Taylor Swift, Poet

Taylor Swift, Poet Taylor Swift, Poet

Country singer, globetrotting pop star, and now melancholic poet—Taylor Swift has offered her listeners almost everything.

Jul 1, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Stephanie Burt

Time, Space, and Annie Baker

Time, Space, and Annie Baker Time, Space, and Annie Baker

The playwright's remarkable debut film, Janet Planet, immerses the viewer in the sounds and sorrow of a middle-schooler's endless summer.

Jun 24, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Nora Caplan-Bricker

Joe Biden spaeaks during a campaign rally at Pearson Community Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on February 4, 2024.

How the Academy Flubbed Its Moguls Memorial How the Academy Flubbed Its Moguls Memorial

The Academy's film museum, seeking to placate critics who decried its earlier omission of Jewish moguls, rushes to fix its clumsy handling of a sensitive subject. 

Jun 21, 2024 / Ben Schwartz

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