World
A Long, Hard Look at America
One of the strangest works of art in the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam, is a painting by Jan Jansz Mostaert, who was born in Haarlem. It dates from around 1535...
The Show Can’t Go On
Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support system for the performing arts. Source link
“Drop Dead City” Spotlights a Lost Era of Liberal Government
At a time when the very function of government is being destroyed from within, an extraordinary historical documentary, “Drop Dead City,” puts the workings and responsibilities of government front...
Renzo Piano’s Light Touch
The world-renowned architect Renzo Piano grew up in Italy watching his father, a local builder, work on construction sites, and he was fascinated by his father’s gravitation toward cumbersome...
The Torment of a Neighbor’s Noise in “Beeps”
Kirk Johnson’s documentary short follows two young men, one of whom is driven to distraction by a nearby dying smoke alarm, on their quest to make things right. ...
Was the Civil War Inevitable?
Out of guilt or amnesia, we tend to treat wars, in retrospect, as natural disasters: terrible but somehow inevitable, beyond anyone’s control. Shaking your fist at the fools who...
Adrian Tomine’s “Lucky Dogs”
Moving around the city this spring, one can’t help but sense that many people seem to have succumbed to a generalized anxiety. For the cover of the April 28,...
Who Wants a Second Helping of “The Wedding Banquet”?
It takes a while for “The Wedding Banquet,” Ang Lee’s 1993 hit romantic comedy, to get to the big event of the title, but it’s worth the wait. The...
Pictures from Where the Senses Encounter the World
Against this cultural backdrop, Cig Harvey’s work captures a lesser-understood—or even displaced—beauty. While others take photographs, Harvey, I’m convinced, takes something else. This “something else” can be defined by...
The Powerful Films of the L.A. Rebellion
In the nineteen-seventies, U.C.L.A.’s Ethno-Communications program, founded to increase minority enrollment, attracted a critical mass of young Black filmmakers. They quickly began to make a widely varied range of...
