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It Takes Only Five Paintings to See Helen Frankenthaler’s Genius
In a small show at MOMA, Frankenthaler seems to make paint its own living force, untouched by an artist. Source link
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The Extremely Online Bona Fides of “I Love L.A.”
In Sunday’s season finale of “I Love L.A.,” Los Angeles is blamed for getting between the show’s protagonist, Maia (Rachel Sennott), and…
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The Wild, Sad Life of John Cage’s First Lover
Why not New York? Personal factors may have been at work: in L.A., Cage’s parents could provide support. But L.A. was also coming into its…
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Tyler Mitchell’s Art-Historical Mood Board
Visually, Mitchell’s images are sumptuous, stylish, and seductive, channelling the old-school photographic glamour epitomized by Richard…
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Can You Reclaim Your Mind?
Modernists like Woolf developed an attitude, which T. S. Eliot called “impersonality,” meant to reclaim their mental lives from the habits…
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The Role of Doctors Is Changing Forever
Historically, medicine’s power rested on a specific kind of cultural authority—the ability to determine not only what diseases exist, who…
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Rob Reiner Made a New Kind of Fairy Tale
On Sunday, when it was reported that the filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, had been stabbed to death at their home…
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A Graphic Novel About Rage and Repression in Montreal
“Cannon” is the second graphic novel by Lai, a thirty-two-year-old Australian who lives in, and makes art about, Montreal. Her first book,…
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The Year in Slop
2025 in Review New Yorker writers reflect on the year’s highs and lows. The Turing test, a long-established tool for measuring machine…
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Five Things That Changed the Media in 2025
The true-crime genre has been a cornerstone of the podcast market for years, and we could very well see a proliferation of newsletters…
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Sarah Sherman Enters the Cartoon Caption Contest
The comedian tries her hand at captioning New Yorker cartoons. Source link
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Feast Your Eyes on Japan’s Fake Food
The first business dedicated to the manufacture and sale of shokuhin sampuru was founded in 1932 in Osaka by Iwasaki Takizō, one of the…
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The Year in Trump Cashing In
On January 17, 2025, three days before Trump’s second Inauguration, he took another leap into the crypto world, releasing a new meme coin:…
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The Best Things I Ate in 2025
Trends in restaurants are like trends in art: cumulative, ambient, much more evident in retrospect than they are in the chaos of the…
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How Nicolas Sarkozy Survived Twenty Days Behind Bars
Sarkozy is assigned prisoner number 320535. “Four days earlier, I had been Nicolas Sarkozy, the former President of the Republic, being…
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A Holiday Gift Guide: Puzzles and Games Galore
For the word gamer with old-school tastes and ample storage space, consider a Monogrammed Deluxe Scrabble set ($170), paired with a…
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Nancy Shaver Is the Real Deal
The choreographer Marla Phelan is interested in the birth of stars—not Barbra Streisand or Lady Gaga but the cosmic kind. Working with the…
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The Lovably Fragile Exes of “Is This Thing On?”
The invention, though, comes from real life. Alex’s experience is loosely modelled on that of John Bishop, a British pharmaceutical…
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How the Kennedy Center Has Been Transformed by Trumpism
Employees told me that the new hires “don’t understand the basic vocabulary” of arts administration. They have questions. Things like,…
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What the Warner Bros. Sale Means for the Art of Movies
The business outlook remained bleak, of course. Throughout the nineteen-sixties, amid vast social and generational changes, the studios,…
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A Student Chases the Shadows of Tiananmen
In the beginning of Ha Jin’s new novel, “Looking for Tank Man,” a sophomore at Harvard seems to be on the verge of throwing her life away.…
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A Holiday Gift Guide: Treasures That Are Old, or Old at Heart
When you make a purchase using a link on this page, we may receive a commission. Thank you for supporting The New Yorker. In general, I am…
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The Best TV Shows of 2025
Fourteen years ago, Emily Nussbaum, one of my esteemed predecessors in the TV-critic chair, notoriously titled her Top Ten list “I Hate…