As the city of Atlanta was abuzz with celebrities and awash in lemon-pepper wings in the hours ahead of the Super Bowl, the news broke that the Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage had been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Read More …
This piece was drawn from “Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply,” which is out in September from University of Texas Press. Sometimes he would go to the library and dream. His body was not divisible from the aura of books. Though he Read More …
The first week of September brings an anxious back-to-school energy to the galleries of New York City, heightened, in recent years, by the concurrence of Fashion Week. On Thursday night, art lovers and clothes horses flowed together on the streets Read More …
Within the first minutes of the six-part documentary “Surviving R. Kelly,” one thing was clear: no one—R. Kelly, the music industry, his fans, ourselves—would emerge unscathed. Viewers had been called to bear witness to the stories and pain of black Read More …
The red suit and fur-trimmed hat, the white beard, the sack of toys: these are the trappings of an icon who has been featured on New Yorker covers since the magazine’s inception, in 1925. Of the more than a hundred Read More …
Candytopia, the pop-up exhibit with locations in Manhattan and San Francisco, shares some characteristics with Disneyland—a costumed guide, manufactured fantasy landscapes, giddy kids—but there are no rides. In Candytopia, there’s very little to do but pose, and that’s what everyone’s Read More …
For the third time in eight years, the beleaguered Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles is betting on New York expertise to help solve its problems. This week, MOCA announced that Klaus Biesenbach, the fifty-two-year-old director of MOMA P.S. Read More …
Click:Brown paper bag Many New Englanders who listened to public radio in the late twentieth century fondly remember the patient, gently eccentric classical-music show “Morning Pro Musica,” from WGBH. Its host, Robert J. Lurtsema, was affectionately known in many households Read More …
During the first season of HBO’s “Succession,” which wrapped up on Sunday night, Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) revealed himself to be a savvy courier, an awkward courtier, a stoic whipping boy, a farcical chaperone, a cunning rat, a brilliant mercenary, Read More …
As an avid amateur chess player who often has multiple online games going at once, I love the challenge on the board, puzzling out my next move during quiet moments of the day, and, of course, the thrill of a Read More …