All the Excuses That Didn’t Work to Get Me Out of Jury Duty
By Blythe Roberson
The Brooklyn courthouse is really ugly and not conducive to #JuryDuty Instagrams.
Telling a Different Story About Africa
By Mallika Rao
The characters on the Web series “An African City” navigate and question the cultural norms that shape their encounters with men.
When the Maysles Brothers Filmed the Beatles
By Richard Brody
A 1964 documentary on view at Film Forum shows the young artists to be not media creations but media geniuses.
A Young Artist Confronts the Sinking of the Titanic
By Robert Sullivan
“I was basically thinking about travelling from place to place,” the artist said. “And tragedy. And history.”
Carbonara Purists Can’t Stop the Pasta Revolution
By Adam Gopnik
The French pseudo-carbonara that has provoked outrage in Italy is merely one episode in a larger pasta revolution sweeping Europe and America.
Light as Touch: Jenny Holzer’s Nighttime Poetry Projections
By Henri Cole
Seeing my poems projected onto landscapes and buildings, I feel that the words become more direct, unself-conscious, and human.
My Weight-Lifting Goals
By Colin Stokes
A few years ago, I started off easy by lifting a bird feather once a day.
Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 15th
By David Sipress
“I felt Sanders yelled better on big banks and political corruption but Clinton yelled better on Israel and the minimum wage.”
Paul Strand’s Sense of Things
By Andrew Dickson
Revisiting the great photographer’s long and varied career, forty years after his death.
A Movie that Captures France’s Dystopian Employment Situation
By Richard Brody
Stéphane Brizé’s “The Measure of a Man” has just become even more timely.