The Berlin Philharmonic Searches for a Messiah [Anonymoused]
On Monday, the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic gathered at the Jesus Christus Kirche, in the Berlin suburb of Dahlem, to pick a new chief conductor. Unlike most ensembles of its kind, the...
View ArticleMovie of the Week: “Aloha, Bobby and Rose” [Anonymoused]
Few directors have begun their careers as auspiciously as Floyd Mutrux did. His first feature, “Dusty and Sweets McGee,” from 1971, is a blend of fiction and documentary, about heroin addicts in Los...
View ArticleRoger Ballen’s Society on the Verge [Anonymoused]
Roger Ballen, a New Yorker who lives and works in Johannesburg, went to South Africa in 1982 as a geologist with a strong interest in photography. (His first book, “Boyhood,” featuring pictures of...
View ArticleMaking Space for the Homeless [Anonymoused]
On a recent afternoon, at Parsons School of Design, on Thirteenth Street, the artist and interior designer Kevin Walz greeted a handful of guests in a large, long studio space that had high,...
View ArticleCultural Clicks: “Mad Men,” the Radical Art of Chris Burden, and the Momofuku...
Each week, the editors of Goings On share online happenings that caught their eye.See the rest of the story at newyorker.comRelated:Wuvwy MusicWhat Don Draper Was Thinking in the Final Minutes of “Mad...
View ArticleAdvice for Robert Downey, Jr. [Anonymoused]
In a recent video interview to promote “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” Robert Downey, Jr., Iron Man, lost his mettle. The interviewer quoted a remark by the director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu that...
View ArticleA Real-Life GIF in Central Park [Anonymoused]
Even to native New Yorkers, Central Park can seem like a composite of iconic sights and cinematic views. There’s the Plaza, as well as Essex House, towering above Sheep’s Meadow; Conservatory Water,...
View ArticleB. B. King’s Inimitable Sound [Anonymoused]
My son Luke, who plays the guitar, asked me not long ago to name the best guitar player I had ever heard live. I’ve heard a lot of good guys—I was lucky enough to hear Hendrix, though I don’t think we...
View ArticleNo Bullshit: Marc Maron Interviews Terry Gross [Anonymoused]
At BAM last week, as part of the “RadioLoveFest” series, Marc Maron, the comedian and podcast host, interviewed Terry Gross, the veteran interviewer and host of “Fresh Air,” on NPR. For decades, Gross...
View Article“Pitch Perfect 2,” and Two Other Movies About Money [Anonymoused]
Three noteworthy movies opening today are centered on money: two very good ones in which it figures explicitly, “In the Name of My Daughter” and “L for Leisure,” and one disappointment that floats on a...
View ArticleThe Weird Agelessness of Don Draper [Anonymoused]
This weekend, “Mad Men” approaches its series finale, and Don Draper doesn’t look a day older than he did when we met him, in March of 1960, even as time has lurched forward for most everyone else. His...
View ArticleCover Story: Carter Goodrich’s “Early Start” [Anonymoused]
“The process of sketching ideas for covers is really the same as when I’m creating characters for animated films,” Carter Goodrich, the artist behind this week’s cover, says. Goodrich began his work in...
View ArticleThe Original, Resonant, Existentially Brilliant “Mad Men” Finale [Anonymoused]
The last time I wrote a column about “Mad Men” was midway through Season 4, and I was worried that the show—one of my favorites—was being weighed down by its own main character, Don Draper. At the...
View ArticleYoko Goes Solo [Anonymoused]
“War Is Over! If you want it” is a beautiful proposition. But, if all you need is love, where does that leave critics? The Museum of Modern Art found itself at war with the art press in recent months,...
View ArticleThe Danger Artist [Anonymoused]
It’s not true that Chris Burden, the profoundly satirical Los Angeles artist who died last week, of cancer, at sixty-nine, had himself shot in the arm for the performance work “Shoot,” in 1971. Rather,...
View ArticleListening Booth: Rachel Grimes’s “The Clearing” [Anonymoused]
When the group Rachel’s formed in Louisville, Kentucky, in the early nineteen-nineties, they bore very little resemblance to their friends in the city’s thriving independent rock scene. Even at a time...
View ArticleThe Screening Room: “A Single Life” [Anonymoused]
“A Single Life,” the latest film in our “Screening Room” series, is a two-minute animated short about a mysterious record that appears on a young woman’s doorstep. She puts the record on and sits down...
View ArticleThe Loneliness of the Common Player [Anonymoused]
I’ve been drawing baseball cards ever since I was a kid. I never draw the stars. To immortalize them as art seems redundant. Those cards are already precious works of art. They get preserved in Lucite...
View ArticleSaul Leiter’s Painted Nudes [Anonymoused]
The following text is adapted from the author’s book “Painted Nudes,” a collection of Saul Leiter’s work which is out this month from Sylph Editions. Saul Leiter, an unassuming but ferociously...
View ArticleTuesdays with Zinsser [Anonymoused]
Our revelatory encounters with teachers who will make a difference in our lives stay with us as vividly, I think, as our recollections of falling in love. In college, I had two such experiences.See the...
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