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A Long, Hard Look at America
One of the strangest works of art in the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam, is a painting by Jan Jansz Mostaert, who was born in Haarlem. It dates from around 1535...
Rema and the Evolution of the Afrobeats Sound
For many years, the term Afrobeats, referring to a West African pop style that integrates dancehall, rap, and R. & B. with traditional African rhythms, was controversial, rejected by...
The Guerrilla Marketing Campaign Against Elon Musk
Perhaps you’re an American waiting at a bus stop, in a country not your own, ruminating on the limits of democracy at home. A bus passes, and then another....
The Show Can’t Go On
Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support system for the performing arts. Source link
“Drop Dead City” Spotlights a Lost Era of Liberal Government
At a time when the very function of government is being destroyed from within, an extraordinary historical documentary, “Drop Dead City,” puts the workings and responsibilities of government front...
What America Means to Latin Americans
On his first day back in office, President Trump issued an executive order to change the name of the body of water that had been known since the mid-sixteenth...
Was the Civil War Inevitable?
Out of guilt or amnesia, we tend to treat wars, in retrospect, as natural disasters: terrible but somehow inevitable, beyond anyone’s control. Shaking your fist at the fools who...
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Crumb, by Dan Nadel (Scribner). In this diligently researched biography, the graphic novel finds its forebear in the cartoonist Robert Crumb. The book chronicles Crumb’s aberrant life and career,...
The Quest to Build a Perfect Protein Bar
In the past seventy-five years in America, the nutritional bar has gone from niche to mainstream. In the fifties, Bob Hoffman, of York, Pennsylvania, known as “the father of...
Adrian Tomine’s “Lucky Dogs”
Moving around the city this spring, one can’t help but sense that many people seem to have succumbed to a generalized anxiety. For the cover of the April 28,...
