Monday, June 30, 2025

Culture

The Met’s Renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Reviewed

It may be the most impressive of the recently modernized colonial collections, far surpassing Berlin’s much criticized Humboldt Forum. One laudable shift is the variety of media exhibited—not just sculpture, which was the first so-called primitive art to...

How Eva Victor Reimagined the Trauma Plot

At one point in “Sorry, Baby,” a new film written, directed, and starring the actor and comedian Eva Victor, the main character, an English professor named Agnes, has an anxiety attack while driving. She pulls over into the...

An Enduring Archive of Queer Writers’ Portraits

Giard grew up in a working-class family in Hartford, Connecticut. When he entered public high school, he was shunted onto the remedial track, because, as he wrote, “it was simply assumed that most kids coming out of my...

The Mesmerizing, Hard-Edge Paintings of Fanny Sanín

Also: Staffers’ favorite Brad Pitt movies, Carnegie Hall performances in the parks, the stargazing rap of Ab-Soul, and more. Source link

“M3GAN 2.0” Is a Victim of Inflation

The sequel, which adds more A.I.-endowed robots and increases their powers, diminishes its dramatic impact. Source link

The Shrewdly Regenerative Apocalypse of “28 Years Later”

Perhaps because cannibalism comes with the territory, the zombie movie has proved uncommonly immune to a certain strain of critical attack: the kind that instinctively finds fault with the derivative. This is a subset of splatter cinema that...

Glory and Gore in “Afternoons of Solitude”

You don’t have to like bullfighting to watch “Afternoons of Solitude” with fascination, any more than you have to like crime to enjoy a film noir. Full disclosure: I squeamishly watch horror films through my fingers and, in...

Are Young People Having Enough Sex?

The virgin allegations emerged about a decade ago. Young people “are so sexually inactive that it practically boggles the mind,” a writer for Bustle proclaimed, in 2016, invoking a then recent study that suggested that celibacy had lately...

Han Ong on Partisan Passions and Life Affirmation in the Theatre

Your story “Happy Days” revolves around an unorthodox staging of Samuel Beckett’s play “Happy Days,” by an Off Off Broadway theatre company, in the East Village. As the story explains, the Beckett estate is notoriously opposed to any...

The Magic of Daylight in a Land of Sun Worship

With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and Indigenous Andean beliefs. Source link
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