Acts of Self-Destruction
On the most irreversible form of dissent, in art and in real life.
https://newyorker.com/culture/criti…
Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?
One of my obsessions over the last few years has been the role of attention in modern American politics: the way attention is a fundamental currency, the way it works differently than it did at other times when it was controlled by newspaper editorial boards.
https://nytimes.com/2026/01/13/opin…
George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You
Last fall, George Saunders was awarded the National Book Foundation’s medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. ...he was called “the ultimate teacher of kindness and of craft.” Pretty good, right? Well, mostly.
https://nytimes.com/2026/01/10/maga…
A Photographer’s Portraits of Her Dad
In the nineteen-eighties, Janet Delaney took pictures of her father at work, and came to a deeper understanding of who he was.
https://newyorker.com/culture/photo…
The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older
People ask: “Would you or would you not like to be young again?” Of course, it is really one of those foolish questions that never should be asked, because they are impossible.
https://themarginalian.org/2025/12/…
Out of Time
On the art of Kerry James Marshall.
https://artforum.com/features/kerry…
As Disney Hall Showed, Frank Gehry’s Los Angeles Was Urban, but Not Urbanist
So often in L.A., historically the capital of cultural artifice, architects use the urban fabric not as a tapestry but simply as a backdrop.
https://commonedge.org/as-disney-ha…
Anselm Kiefer with Michael Auping
Since I want to create a masterpiece, beginning a painting feels often disastrous. It seems impossible.
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/12/ar…
Becoming a Centenarian
Happy New Year!
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
The World Is Yours. Here, Take It.
Joe Brainard's C Comics ran for only two issues, but it remains a testament to the absorbing pleasure of making art with your friends.
https://poetryfoundation.org/articl…
And Your Little Dog, Too
I love him.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
Sea Ranch Let Her Feel ‘Life and Death and Dark and Light’
The architect Suchi Reddy designed a weekend home on a cliff in the famed planned community to help Ivy Ross, a Google executive, get out of her mind and into her body.
https://nytimes.com/2025/12/08/real…
The Twilight of the Starchitect
The larger-than-life persona of the starchitect is now a shrinking island of public focus because of the internet’s dominance and ubiquity. Everyone, and no one, is famous.
https://commonedge.org/the-twilight…
The High-Born Rebel Who Took Up the Cause of the Commoner
A new biography details the secrets and scandals of the Mitfords, a notorious family of aristocrats—and of the one sister who broke away from the rest.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
When We All Get To Heaven
And now, a podcast.
https://slate.com/podcasts/when-we-…
Frank Gehry, the Disrupter, Opened Their Imaginations
Our pal Sam Lubell on Frank Gehry.
https://nytimes.com/2025/12/05/arts…
A Battle with My Blood
It's a tough one.
https://newyorker.com/culture/the-w…
The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star
As af Klint’s fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
Can ceramics be demonic? Edmund de Waal’s obsession with a deeply disturbing Dane
The great potter explains why he turned his decades-long fixation with Axel Salto – maker of unsettling stoneware full of tentacle sproutings and knotty growths – into a new show.
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever
All desires save one are fleeting, but that one lasts forever. That was the desire for wisdom.
https://nytimes.com/2025/11/18/opin…
American Literature Owes a Great Debt to This 20th-Century ‘Insider’
By championing now-essential writers like William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley helped remake the U.S. literary canon.
https://nytimes.com/2025/11/10/book…
Exclusive Interview: filmmaker Ira Sachs on Peter Hujar’s Day – “it’s a love story about a friendship”
With a career spanning more than three decades, Ira Sachs is one of the most acclaimed American independent filmmakers of his generation with work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney.
https://thequeerreview.com/2025/11/…
Who My Child Was and Would Be
When Nat transitioned, I learned that when someone you love changes, you change, too.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
Robert Rauschenberg’s Art of the Real
Just delicious.
https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025…
‘A model of the transnational artist’: Cuban artist Wifredo Lam gets first US retrospective
The major modernist artist is finally getting a blockbuster exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, celebrating a career filled with innovation
https://theguardian.com/artanddesig…
The Mamdani Era Begins
His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.
https://newyorker.com/news/our-loca…
