Style
Maira Kalman’s “Stéphane Mallarmé with Shawl”
[ad_1] The artist Maira Kalman has always had an idiosyncratic approach to defining elegance, having co-authored a book titled “(un)Fashion,” and illustrated E. B. White’s “The Elements of Style.” For...
What I Wanted, What I Got
[ad_1] The popular girl at my elementary school—let’s call her Denise—was not blond like Barbie but pretty in a conventional manner I envied. She had brown hair, skin that tanned...
“Megadoc” Shows Francis Ford Coppola Going for Broke on “Megalopolis”
[ad_1] Figgis comments that Coppola uses the script as a mere premise, and he likens Coppola’s approach to it as “instinctive,” calling the director “kind of like a jazz musician.”...
Brittany Howard and Alabama Shakes Return with Audacious New Music
[ad_1] The first thing Julio Torres says in “Color Theories” is to deny that he’s made an “Off Broadway play.” (His ponytail, curling overhead like an anglerfish’s light, bobbles as...
The Muted, Melancholy Synesthetics of “The History of Sound”
[ad_1] In “The History of Sound,” a new romantic drama set during and after the First World War, passion is an intensely private thing, and in more ways than you...
The Return of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Masterpiece, “The Brothers Size”
[ad_1] At the beginning of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s poetic drama “The Brothers Size,” now at the Shed, one of the play’s three actors pours white sand—or is it salt?—in a...
“Cashing Out” Examines an Investment Strategy That Profited from AIDS Deaths
[ad_1] As grateful as I am to the director Matt Nadel for making “Cashing Out,” a vital and outstanding film about a terrible time, it also made me angry—angry about...
Why Christopher Marlowe Is Still Making Trouble
[ad_1] Do you know the one about the Jewish guy and the Muslim Turk? They gang up on this Christian friar and strangle him. Then they take him into the...
Nostalgic Cravings at the Minnesota State Fair
[ad_1] In the lead-up to the Minnesota State Fair, a twelve-day fête of starch and fat which marks the end of every summer, the event’s organizers release a highly anticipated...
What’s the Deal with U.F.O.s?
[ad_1] I ran these notions by Arlan Andrews, a retired mechanical engineer and author who is the founder and director of SIGMA, a think tank of sci-fi writers that advises...
