Two ex-contestants on “The Apprentice” sold the former president on the idea of a social media platform. Now, the company and the pair are wrangling over their stake.Twenty years ago, Wes Moss and Andy Litinsky met Donald J. Trump as contestants on his reality... More »
The author, known for her “Persepolis” series, is releasing a new illustrated book about the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, inspired by the death of Mahsa Amini.Marjane Satrapi, whose graphic novel series, “Persepolis,” about growing up in and leaving Tehran... More »
At the art world’s seminal event, national pavilions offer a place to make a strong statement. Ukraine’s message? “The war is still going on.”It’s Day 17 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A mother hurries back to her underground shelter after a trip to a nearby... More »
Minhal Baig’s third feature follows two boys living in a public housing complex in Chicago as they cope by building their own dream worlds.The two boys in the gauzy nostalgia piece “We Grown Now” are total charmers. They’re also worryingly vulnerable, somethin... More »
In this ultimately sentimental drama, a lonely fashion magazine editor in Tokyo meets a personal trainer with a secret.Kosuke (Ryohei Suzuki), the protagonist of Daishi Matsunaga’s “Egoist,” is a lonely fashion magazine editor in Tokyo, with high cheekbones an... More »
In this cheerfully unambitious vampire movie, a bloodsucker is shut up in an old mansion with some nitwit criminals. Will there will be gore? You bet.A cheerfully obvious splatterthon, the new horror movie “Abigail” follows a simple, time-tested recipe that ca... More »
New research shows that the gap between income and home values has grown at an astounding rate over the past 50 years.When baby boomers were buying their first homes in the 1970s and 1980s, it wasn’t unusual to take on a double-digit interest rate on a 30-year... More »
Drawing on her background in theater, the curator Cagla Ilk sees strength in collaboration, which she contends does not occur often enough in the world of art.At the 2022 Venice Biennale, the artist Maria Eichhorn exposed the foundations of the German Pavilion... More »
His multimedia installation is a response to the Venice Biennale’s official theme of “Foreigners Everywhere.”There is an engaging little rhyme tucked into the title of the artist Erick Meyenberg’s piece for this year’s Venice Biennale — “Nos marchábamos, regre... More »
This past October, I found myself in Yoshida Village standing before a tatara, a giant open-top furnace that was filled with charcoal and raging with such controlled ferocity that it could have been a set piece in Lucifer’s bedroom.Deep within the belly of tho... More »
Not every workplace features a guillotine. At a book conservation lab tucked beneath the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the office guillotine might as well be a water cooler or a file cabinet for all that it fazes the staff. “We have a lot of v... More »
Spiders are weavers. The Navajo artist and weaver Melissa Cody knows this palpably. As she sits cross-legged on sheepskins at her loom, on one of the wooden platforms that boost her higher as her stack of monumental tapestries grows, the sacred knowledge of Sp... More »