Film
Howard, a Lackluster Tribute to Beloved Disney Lyricist Howard Ashman
Known for his songs for The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin, Ashman deserves a documentary passionate enough to match his legacy.
Review
Art
Kennedi Carter’s Opulent Portraits of Black Southerners
In Flexing: New Realm, Carter combines visual references to European royalty and nobility with contemporary Black aesthetics.
Film
Exposing Rodrigo Duterte's War on the Free Press
Director Ramona Diaz and journalist Maria Ressa discuss their struggles to make A Thousand Cuts, a film about the autocratic president of the Philippines.
Film
Professional Wrestling Takes a Cinematic Turn Amid the Pandemic
Having to put on shows without crucial audience participation is forcing new evolution within wrestling.
Books
Climbing a Symbolic Mountain With a Surrealist Writer
Long out of print, Mount Analogue, René Daumal's cult classic, offers a tale of renunciation and self-acceptance.
Art
Slavery and the Dehumanization of Modern Life
Through texts and objects, Cameron Rowland illuminates the connection between slavery and the commercial structures that define the global economy today.
Art
A Triennale In Tune With Our Pandemic-Affected Moment
In the face of climate change, economic and political convulsions, and the coronavirus pandemic, it is our modes of living and of occupying our planet that we must urgently modify.
Performance
The Original Forger of Magic
No one was as successful at impersonation and forgery as William Ellsworth Robinson, nor has anyone failed as spectacularly.
Art
The Charm and Conviction of a Christo and Jeanne-Claude Exhibition
The show at the Pompidou Center demonstrates that the artists’ reputation as “ephemeral architects” or “temporary monument” makers is incomplete, if not altogether incorrect.
Books
Peeling Back the Hidden, Colonial Layers of Museum Objects
With her recent book, Alice Procter shows us the things many museums hide, the parts of objects’ histories that aren’t warm and fuzzy (or flattering for the institutions that now hold them).
Books
40 Artists and Writers Respond to 40 Objects “Mistaken” for Guns by the Police
The book This Is Not a Gun collects personal responses to these objects, which include a cell phone, hairbrush, Wii remote, and underwear.
Film
Stream Your Heart Out: Emmy Nominations Are In
Here are a few of our favorites, including Watchmen, Pose, and more.