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How Robert Rauschenberg Made the Real Realer
Rauschenberg returned to Black Mountain for the summer of 1951. By then, the photographers Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan were teaching at the school, along with Hazel Larsen Archer,...
“The Drama” Struggles to Justify Its Combustible Premise
Does the movie itself know who she is? I’m not so sure. Emma is a literary editor, though the specifics are awfully vague—a late subplot involving challenges on the...
Broadway’s “Dog Day Afternoon” Is a Dog
Sidney Lumet’s kinetic, emotionally complex film has been transformed into a hokey sitcom with gunshots. Source link
The Sci-Fi Novelist Who Disappeared for Decades
In “What We Are Seeking,” the cult author Cameron Reed returns to show us a strange, totally alien world that somehow feels like our own. Source link
The New Museum Returns, but Humans Are Left Behind
The New Museum knows that most viewers will be of two minds about “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” a blockbuster exhibition meant to crown the museum’s reopening after...
Kanye West Makes a Record for the A.I. Era
Over the years, Ye has amassed perhaps the most obsessive fan base in all of hip-hop, and some of them have carefully charted the evolution of the tracks on...
How Arsenio Hall Captured the Culture
“The audience went crazy,” Hank Moorehouse says.Later, a fire at Hall’s grandmother’s house would destroy most of his magic act. But Moorehouse proved prescient: Hall followed his advice all...
Growing Up as the Child of Radical Revolutionaries
I was born underground and spent my early years on the run. By 1980, though, my parents had finally decided to turn themselves in. A plea deal awaited us...