Since the mass shooting on Valentine’s Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, in which a former student of the school killed seventeen students and staff with a legally acquired semiautomatic rifle, several of the survivors have Read More …
In the film “Day’s End,” the artist Gordon Matta-Clark rides a whale-size piece of corrugated metal as it is hoisted away from the wall from which he just cut it. He’s a young man, age thirty-two. The feat was filmed Read More …
Enjoyed the Oscars last night, in particular perhaps Jimmy Kimmel; the lively back-and-forth between Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph; and Eva Marie Saint, comfortably at ease, comfortably herself, and still beautiful at ninety-three. But the Academy Awards event doesn’t hold Read More …
“Movies are the dream models by which multiple generations have codified, altered, and pushed the boundaries of their behavior,” the artist Chris Ware says about his latest New Yorker cover, his twenty-fourth. Arriving on newsstands six days before the Academy Read More …
When Jamali Maddix was twenty-four, he decided that he wanted to talk to neo-Nazis. Maddix is a British comedian who is brown-skinned (half of his family comes from Jamaica) and bearded and too tall to go anywhere unnoticed, so, in Read More …
In July of 1981, an estimated seven hundred and fifty million people around the world tuned in to watch the televised wedding of Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles. It was called a “fairy-tale wedding,” and the ceremony looked Read More …
The concept album is an extravagant obfuscation of what we imagine as the artist’s “self”—think of Pink Floyd’s comments on sanity in “The Dark Side of the Moon”; David Bowie adopting the costume of the alien androgyne Ziggy Stardust; George Read More …
With the influx of coverage for the twentieth anniversary of “Sex and the City” coinciding with our ongoing grifter season—recently extended by the release of “Ocean’s 8” and the news of an upcoming Netflix series based on Anna Delvey—I’ve found Read More …
My first experience of cinema was watching “Battle of Neretva” (“Bitka na Neretvi”), a Yugoslav-liberation-war spectacle starring Yul Brynner, Franco Nero, and Orson Welles, as well as domestic actors known to Yugoslav viewers by their first names (Milena, Bata, Boris, Read More …
For nearly three seasons, the Showtime drama “Billions” has been structured as a classic cat-and-mouse tale, a story of attack and defense between the impossibly powerful U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) and his nemesis, the impossibly powerful hedge-fund billionaire Read More …