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At a Glitzy Saudi Investment Forum, Almost No Mention of War
Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbors are seeking to reassure foreign investors that it’s still safe to do business amid the turmoil around the Mideast.
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Zombies Are Real? A Museum Tries to Bury a Hollywood Myth.
The undead monsters we know from movies and TV are distortions of a figure with roots in the religious practices of Haiti.
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Something for Everyone at The Art Show at Park Avenue Armory
The fair at the Park Avenue Armory, with paintings, watercolors and drawings, includes crowd pleasers as well as exciting debuts from midcentury artists flying beneath the radar.
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David Salle Tries to See if A.I. Can Create Good Paintings. Yes, and No.
At Gladstone Gallery, the painter’s experiments with artificial intelligence yield compelling results and big questions.
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Brooklyn’s Strivers and Those a Museum Spurned
Two surveys of hometown artists — one at the Brooklyn Museum, another of those it snubbed — serve as a meditation on recognition and rejection.
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Breakfast Is Served—Again: Alan Rudolph on the reissue of “Breakfast of Champions”
Back in the mid-1970s, the great Robert Altman was reportedly planning a film of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1973 best-seller “Breakfast of Champions,” his wild, satirical novel aiming at the increasingly brutal nature of American society. It would follow two characters crossing paths: Dwayne Hoover, a big-shot car dealer in Midland City who seems to have it…
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10 Great Horror Films from 2024 (and Where to Watch Them)
It’s the time of year when even casual fans are looking for something spooky to watch, but where do you begin? Of course, all the streaming services have robust catalogs of some of the best that the horror genre has ever offered, but maybe you want to catch up with something from this year too?…
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CIFF 2024: On the Legacy and Importance of The Spook Who Sat by the Door
“I was doing a soap opera in New York. One day, somebody called me and asked if I could come out to Gary, Indiana,” recalls actor J. A. Preston. “Gary, Indiana? Are you crazy?” The film that would bring Preston to Indiana was director Ivan Dixon’s audacious adaptation of Sam Greenlee’s radical novel “The Spook…
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Netflix’s Sharp “The Diplomat” Offers Escapism for Political Junkies
It’s a tough time to be a fan of the political world in that it’s, well, basically on fire. And so it’s an interesting choice to drop the 6-episode second season of Netflix’s Emmy-nominated “The Diplomat” into the vitriolic stew that passes for international politics in late 2024. Someone must have decided that a season…
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Harris Took Steady Approach to Space as Chair of White House Council
As chair of the White House’s National Space Council, the vice president largely emphasized continuity with policies set by the Trump administration.