I couldn’t watch the Bears’ kick. I turned away from the screen, put my hands on my son Harry’s shoulders, muttered something about winning or losing together as a family, and prepared for the worst. I watched his face as Read More …
In case you haven’t been tracking the progress of group exhibitions of sound art, a short history would be: they are generally a disaster, with many works either impossible to hear adequately in the situation or impossible not to hear Read More …
Click:GIft ribbon There is great benefit, these days, in having a name unlike any other: you float to the top of Google searches. Bolerium Books, in San Francisco, knows this well, although it wasn’t a consideration when it first opened, Read More …
The Swedish artist Jonas Lund has an exhibition in September, and, like all artists, he wanted to decide what the art should look like. So he gave his shareholders four choices, all variations on a single piece of plywood. The Read More …
The story of Christmas Day, as recounted in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, is fairly radical: a virgin mother gives birth to a son in a remote and frigid barn, while an angel descends to a group of shepherds Read More …
Three years ago, Liu Mama was an unremarkable middle-aged farmer from the Dongbei region, in northeastern China. Then she started presenting her life on the social-media platform Kuaishou. Liu Mama’s son-in-law, who would later assume the role of her trusty Read More …
What is “The Masked Singer,” the new reality-TV competition on Fox? It is David Cronenberg force-feeding “The Voice” a tab of acid. It is a family of zombie Teletubbies, whistling off-key. It is a corruption of a corruption, which perhaps Read More …
Whenever friends tell me they are feeling blue, I tell them to take a weekend, stock up on cold seltzer, and binge “Pose.” The show, which aired on FX last year, takes place in the spangled, sparkling demimonde of the Read More …
Consensus and bipartisanship seem like a distant fantasy in today’s America. “Hamilton,” the musical created by Lin-Manuel Miranda that débuted in 2015 and is well on its way to becoming a billion-dollar production, is a rare source of general accord. Read More …
I first read V. S. Naipaul before knowing anything about him—I came under the spell of his prose before I knew not to like him. In the early eighties, when I was serving in the Peace Corps in West Africa, Read More …