Tehching Hsieh Turned Every Second Into Art
At Dia, the cage has been reconstructed in full, complete with Hsieh’s boots and his tally marks gouged into the wall. Every day, Hsieh was photographed by his friend, and the photos,…
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Lucy Dacus and Rufus Wainwright Talk with Amanda Petrusich
On October 26, 2025, the musicians Lucy Dacus and Rufus Wainwright took the stage for a discussion with the New Yorker staff writer Amanda Petrusich at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival,…
Michael Greene Artists Agency Set to Open Offices in Malibu and New York City
Michael Greene Artists Agency has opened offices in Malibu, Calif. and New York City. The agency, which opened two flagship offices on Oct. 10 will sign emerging talent, and shape an…
Victoria Tentler-Krylov’s “Racing Through Fall”
New York’s sprawling parks can be both a respite from, and an amplification of, the rhythms of the city. For the cover of the November 3, 2025, issue, the artist Victoria Tentler-Krylov…
Oscilloscope Laboratories Buys Doc ‘The Python Hunt’ From Filmmaker Xander Robin and Artists Equity (EXCLUSIVE)
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to “The Python Hunt.” The documentary, from filmmaker Xander Robin and Artists Equity, is about an initiative undertaken by the…
Martin Puryear Changes the World Through Wood
It’s an object that shouldn’t have body language, yet it does. And from body language, it’s a quick jump to personality. Those who grew up with Tove Jansson’s Moomins may see in “Self” a…
Dwayne Johnson and Benny Safdie’s ‘Lizard Music’ Lands at Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists
Dwayne Johnson and Benny Safdie‘s next collaboration, a movie titled “Lizard Music” — which sees Johnson as a 70-year-old called “Chicken Man” with a 111-year-old chicken named Claudia as…
Harry Bliss’s “Cannonball”
For the cover of the October 20, 2025, issue, the cartoonist Harry Bliss wanted to share a recent experience that filled him with joy. “With apologies to my wife, there aren’t many things…
Dwight Howard Signs With Innovative Artists Entertainment
NBA Hall of Famer Dwight Howard has signed with Innovative Artists Entertainment for representation. Howard continues to be managed by The Gym Agency. Mujaahid Abdul-Baasit, Howard’s…
'Artists should have a choice.' WME opts clients out of Sora update as AI anxiety deepens
As anxieties among Hollywood talent increase surrounding artificial intelligence, Beverly Hills talent agency WME is drawing a line on behalf of its clients. WME told San Francisco-based…
Brian Stauffer’s “Winds of Change”
For the cover of the October 13, 2025, issue, the artist Brian Stauffer chose to see the beauty in what many consider a noisy nuisance. “One of the things I love about the city is the…
How Lionel Richie Mastered the Love Song
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen The celebrity memoir is a form of which I’m reflexively skeptical. Some books lean solely on name recognition, without…
Richard Linklater’s Uncompromising Artists
Zoey Deutch, who plays Seberg in “Nouvelle Vague,” said that Linklater had first approached her about the project in 2014, while she was shooting a role in “Everybody Wants Some!!” She…
The Uneasy Prophecies of Cate Le Bon
There’s a scene in Netflix’s “Too Much” in which the heroine, an American transplant in London, listens to a playlist curated by her new British paramour. (Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe…
We’re Still Living in Man Ray’s Shadow
The Met’s stress on quartz gun and fern—that is, on the rayographs—is a welcome departure from Man Ray’s familiar cast of naked and famous people. His first batch, “Champs délicieux”…
Artists at Netflix Animation, SpindleHorse and ‘Ted’ Move to Unionize with Animation Guild
Animators at Netflix Animation, animation artists at SpindleHorse and production workers at “Ted” have made the movie to unionize with Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839 (TAG). These…
Maira Kalman’s “Stéphane Mallarmé with Shawl”
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…
Paramount Condemns Israeli Film Boycott After Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix and 3,900 Industry Names Sign Pledge: ‘Silencing’ Artists Does Not Promote Peace
After 3,900 industry names signed a pledge not to work with Israeli film institutions, Paramount released a statement condemning the widespread boycott. “At Paramount, we believe in the…
Kadir Nelson’s “The Soloist”
When the news is especially distressing, it can be easy to feel like art is futile; that you should, instead, focus your attention on all the suffering in the world, such as the cruelties…
The War on Trans Art
In July, the artist Amy Sherald pulled out of a large-scale show at the Smithsonian after learning that she might not be able to include a portrait of Lady Liberty as a Black trans woman.…
Anthropic's $1.5-billion settlement signals new era for AI and artists
Chatbot builder Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to authors in a landmark copyright settlement that could redefine how artificial intelligence companies compensate creators. The San…
Can artists really stop AI from stealing their work?
Misshapen eyes and hands with too many fingers once made AI-generated art easy to spot. Now, as the technology advances, it’s becoming harder to tell human work from machine-made…
Cindy Sherman’s and Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley
For a hundred years of New Yorker history (except once, in 2000, for our seventy-fifth anniversary), our covers have featured drawings, not photographs. For the September 1 & 8, 2025,…
The High Femme Dystopia of Star Amerasu
If the recent embrace of seemingly—and only seemingly—autonomous machines is any indication, something much less chic than the future premised in “The Matrix” awaits us. During the 1999…