Sunken ‘Jungle Cruise’ Sales Reflect Hollywood’s Delta Variant Troubles
LOS ANGELES — As Disney’s pun-filled “Jungle Cruise” demonstrated over the weekend, moviegoing remains disrupted, with the Delta variant, immediate...
ARTS ‘N’ INVENTIONS
Review: In Carl Hancock Rux’s ‘Vs.,’ the Jury Is Out
Since the pandemic began, American courts have moved millions of hearings online, a development known as “virtual justice.” Carl Hancock...
Reynold Ruffins, Push Pin Studios Graphic Artist, Dies at 90
Reynold Ruffins, an illustrator, graphic designer and artist who was an early member of Push Pin Studios, the impish and...
Lollapalooza Drops DaBaby From Lineup After His Homophobic Remarks
DaBaby’s scheduled performance at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago was canceled on Sunday after the rapper made homophobic comments...
A World War II Spy Didn’t Live to Tell Her Tale. Her Great-Great-Niece Will.
Every year when Rebecca Donner visited her great-grandmother’s home in Chevy Chase, Md., she and her brother would stand against...
Can Paramount+ Succeed? One Producer Hopes to Make It So.
Like so many other writer-directors, Alex Kurtzman grew up worshiping film.But he is adaptable — and in the streaming era,...
Think Sustainability Is Simple? This Sheep Farmer Would Like a Word.
PASTORAL SONGA Farmer’s JourneyBy James RebanksFar too little of the ink spilled on the ethics of food production has come...
2 Dead in Random Shooting at ‘Purge’ Movie, Officials Say
A second person died on Saturday after being shot during a screening of “The Forever Purge,” a movie about anarchy...
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Not at Opus 40.
SAUGERTIES, N.Y. — The 6.5-acre bluestone labyrinth rising out of a quarry here is one of the marvels of the...
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Not at Opus 40.
SAUGERTIES, N.Y. — The 6.5-acre bluestone labyrinth rising out of a quarry here is one of the marvels of the...
A Brief History of Summer Reading
When the days get longer and the mercury begins to rise, the books appear. Sunscreen-dappled paperbacks are tucked into beach...
Cults, College Dropouts and the Art of Control in Two New Story Collections
Ohlin’s sly irony leavens the aching plights of characters for whom closure is unattainable. In “FMK,” Sonia happens upon a...
Chuck E. Weiss, Musician Who, in Love, Inspired a Hit Song, Dies at 76
Chuck E. Weiss, blues musician, club owner and outsize Los Angeles character immortalized in Rickie Lee Jones’s breakout hit song,...
Timothy Rub Will Step Down at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Timothy Rub, 69, the director and chief executive officer of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on Friday announced that he...
Roberto Calasso, Renaissance Man of Letters, Dies at 80
“Calasso carved out a new space as an intellectual, retelling myth as true, certainly as true as science,” Tim Parks,...
Echoes of a Fairy Tale in a Devastating Novel
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to ListenOmar El Akkad’s new novel, “What Strange Paradise,” uses some...
Broadway Audiences Will Need Proof of Vaccination and Masks
Deciding what to do about young children has proved particularly vexing, given that no vaccine has yet been approved for...
What to Do This Weekend
Welcome. August begins on Sunday, a new month, a good time to set an intention for the coming weeks. There’s...
Guggenheim Museum Curators Move to Join a Union
For decades there were no unions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, but now its curators, conservators, editors and other...
From ‘Call My Agent!’ to Hollywood Career
At some point during the pandemic, perhaps between the debut of “Ted Lasso” last August and “Bridgerton” in December, you...
New York City Awards $3 Million for Latino and Puerto Rican Theater
The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs announced on Friday that the city had awarded $3 million to Pregones/Puerto...
New in Paperback: ‘Antkind’ and ‘Looking for Miss America’
BEGIN AGAIN: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Crown, 288 pp.,...
Video: ‘The Green Knight’ | Anatomy of a Scene
“My name is David Lowery, and I adapted and directed The Green Knight. This is a scene in which Sir...
Poetry and Politics, HIPAA and Other Letters to the Editor
In VerseTo the Editor: As a poet, a part of second-wave feminism and a former poetry reviewer, I greatly appreciate...
Repression, Obsession, Murder
True-crime podcasts are useful devices for thriller writers because they have a way of making cold cases hot again. That’s...
The Pleasure of Falling Asleep With a Book on Your Face
Alison Barnwell is an artist and writer based in New Orleans. Her work has appeared in AGNI and The Believer.Follow...
Overlooked No More: Janet Sobel, Whose Art Influenced Jackson Pollock
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported...
Silk Sonic’s Retro Roller Jam, and 12 More New Songs
With a new single, “Skate,” it becomes ever clearer that Silk Sonic — the collaboration of Bruno Mars and Anderson...
Legends Remade: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
Marissa Levien’s THE WORLD GIVES WAY (Redhook, 402 pp., $28) is a staggering marvel, an action-packed cat-and-mouse chase on a...
Sarah Niles Needed ‘Ted Lasso,’ Too
The British actress Sarah Niles was, like many of us, a late convert to “Ted Lasso.” She missed the debut...
Alexandra Kleeman Finds Reality All Too Surreal
Whereas in “You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine,” bodies themselves were plastic, shape-shifting until they lost all trace...
‘The Last Mercenary’ Review: Still Kicking
At 60, Jean-Claude Van Damme has racked up roughly as many features as birthdays. Noting this prolificness, the strangely compelling...
Eve L. Ewing Adds a Dash of Black Girl Magic to STEM-Based Learning
MAYA AND THE ROBOTBy Eve L. EwingIllustrated by Christine AlmedaDiversity (or, more accurately, the lack of it) has long been...
An Homage to Black Boyhood From the Creator of Tristan Strong
BLACK BOY JOY17 Stories Celebrating Black BoyhoodEdited by Kwame MbaliaDanielle Young coined the term “Black Boy Joy” in 2016 after...
Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney Over ‘Black Widow’ Release
Disney, citing the continuing coronavirus threat, ultimately decided to release several major movies simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+ Premier...
Floyd Cooper, Illustrator of Black Life for Children, Dies at 65
Floyd Cooper, a celebrated children’s book illustrator who explored the African American experience in stories rooted in history, like one...
Ace Gallery Founder Arrested on Embezzlement Charges
LOS ANGELES — The art dealer Douglas Chrismas, who has a decades-long track record of discovering major artists and an...
How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend?
Every Monday and Friday, Margaret offers hyper-specific viewing recommendations in our Watching newsletter. Read her latest picks below, and sign...
How the Guggenheim Got Its Groove Back
When lockdown lifted last spring, some of our big New York City museums were able to slide major waiting-in-the-wings exhibitions...
At The Ranch in Montauk, Plenty of Room for Art and Horses
“Renate, both due to geography and gender, has until now remained a subterranean figure of Anger’s underground, as if her...
‘Never Gonna Snow Again’ Review: You’re Getting Warmer
When Zhenia (Alec Utgoff), a handsome masseur with an enigmatic smile, arrives at a wealthy gated community in Poland, he...
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
THE VIXEN, by Francine Prose. (Harper/HarperCollins, $25.99.) In Prose’s latest novel, set in the 1950s, a young editor is hired...
Marian Goodman Appoints Five Partners
When she began her enterprise in 1977, Marian Goodman challenged the somewhat provincial tastes of an American market dominated by...
$10 million is being given to arts institutions in the U.S. to help make them more energy-efficient.
The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, named for the American abstract expressionist painter, announced on Wednesday that it had committed $10 million...
5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
Julie MehretuThrough Sept. 18. Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, 535 West 24th Street, third floor, Manhattan, (212) 249-3324, [email protected]
Everything Old Is New Again and Other Best-Selling Wisdom
A look at this week’s popular novels reminds us that good writing runs in families, wet T-shirts attract attention and...
Erik Larson Has a Scary Story He’d Like You to Hear
The growth of audio originals marks a shift in how authors and publishers view the form, which was once regarded...
‘The Evening Hour’ Review: Heart of the Country
A colleague of mine once floated a memorable thought experiment: if you could visit the picturesque fictional towns portrayed in...
5 Things to Do This Weekend
The Bayreuth Festival remains a place of traditions, but the stage that Richard Wagner built for his operas isn’t averse...
Graphic Novelists Who Show Us What Loneliness Means
This summer brings a spate of well-timed comics about loneliness, not all of which address the fallout of Covid-19. They...
Poem: Letter to a Bridge Made of Rope
Matthew Olzmann has always been poet-as-storyteller. And in “Letter to a Bridge Made of Rope,” the story is that familiar...
Phillip Lopate Is No Fan of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’
What’s the best book you ever received as a gift?“Tales From Shakespeare,” by Charles and Mary Lamb. My beloved junior...
Bob Odenkirk of ‘Better Call Saul’ Is in Stable Condition After ‘Heart-Related Incident’
Bob Odenkirk, the star of the AMC series “Better Call Saul,” was said to be in stable condition on Wednesday...
Music, but Make It Outdoors
After a long drought, live music has started to return to New York City’s indoor venues, and I — like...
