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New Yorker: The Best Jokes of 2025

The Best Movies of 2025, According to John Waters

The 10 Worst Movies of 2025

WSJ: The Best Movies of 2025: Art and the Apocalypse


Best New York City Exhibitions of 2025

Annual ArtReview Power 100


15 Best Movie Posters of 2025

WSJ: 10 Best Books of 2025


Glasstire’s Best of 2025 in Texas

WSJ: Best Theater of 2025: New Views on Classic Stories

New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025, Justin Chang and Richard Brody

WSJ: The Best Architecture of 2025: Place Over Pizzazz

10 Best London Art Shows of 2025

New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025

10 Best Mystery Books of 2025; Pub trivia night gone wrong! A post-Brexit government conspiracy! A drug-kingpin granny! And much more...

WSJ: Best TV Shows of 2025: Beating Back the British Invasion

10 Best Art Films of 2025


Review: Raychael Stine’s 'Falls and Springs and Stardust Thing'; Chimerical Colors at Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas

200 Years of Solitude; Giovanni Strazza’s The Veiled Virgin is considered among the world’s great sculptures. So why has it been sequestered inside a Newfoundland convent?


Review: Sister Corita Kent Found the Sacred in the Profane; Installation of the artist’s never-before-seen photographs accumulates meaning through association rather than argument


Lost Jack Kerouac Story Found Among Assassinated Mafia Boss' Belongings


Barnett Newman’s Jewish Identity Is the Key to Understanding His Mysterious Art

BOOKS + WORDS

Glamour and Grit: Anjelica Huston’s Cultured Coolness; Oscar winner digs into her groovy youth in swinging London, her long entanglement with Jack Nicholson, and so much more in her two essential autobiographies

Nick Cave (of the Bad Seeds fame) on the Best Children’s Book Ever Written

'1984' Versus 'A Brave New World'; Two Giants Collide; George Orwell and Aldous Huxley

Jeeves and the Well-Meaning Acolytes; Collection of 12 new stories about P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster, including tales by Roddy Doyle and Dominic Sandbrook, update the duo
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PLAYWRIGHT 2026 JUSTIN TANNER

Justin Tanner Essay: The Rehearsal Process; Fun on the Front Lines of Creativity; Playwright and Actor; "I snapped my wig at rehearsal on Saturday - behaving in a truly ghastly fashion in front the director and stage manager."

"My Son the Playwright" Opens January 24, at the Rogue Machine Theatre at The Matrix, in WeHo, LA

The Avant-Garde Is Over. Should Artists Embrace Being Fashionably Late? Marshall McLuhan’s assertion—"...that art functions as a “Distant Early Warning system... tell[ing] the old culture what is beginning to happen to it”

Mourning and Melancholia in Las Vegas; What does it mean to “think Las Vegas”? "Postmodern simulacrum just does not fly."

The Grab List: How Museums Decide What To Save In A Disaster; Billions of dollars’ worth of art is imperilled by climate change. Curators will have to make sacrifices

Rainey Knudson: What Do We Want from Antiquity? (750 words)

Julia Stoschek’s Groundbreaking Video Art Collection Is Getting an Outing in L.A.; “What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem” marks the first major U.S. presentation of the collector's storied trove

AI-Powered Forgeries Plague Art World

Fraudsters Use AI to Fake Artwork Authenticity And Ownership; Chatbots forge convincing sales invoices and other documents, say industry figures


Fragrance Designer Francis Kurkdjian Presents Perfume as a Sculpture of the Invisible at Palais de Tokyo; Conceived as an “olfactory promenade;" Smell, see, and listen their way through more than ten key “movements” in Kurkdjian’s practice

The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant (and Cinema and Art Gallery) Culture; Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners


Interview: George Condo Returns to Paris with a Monumental Retrospective at MAM Paris


In Karyn Lyons’s Paintings, the Ghost of Girlhood Lingers; In Paris, the artist's solo show "Day For Night"

Japanese Exhibition Places Contemporary Woodcarving Within the Continuum of Art History

ARCHITECTURE

Opportunity of a Lifetime; In Los Angeles, the Stahl House, designed by Pierre Koenig, is for sale

Architecture No Longer Considered A "Professional Degree" in US


From Byzantine Cottages To Vulvic Stadiums: The Brilliance Of Female Architects

Concrete Loops: Brutalism and the Weather of Houston

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David Lynch Theater Presents a Short Film ‘The Moon's Glow’

Video Interview: Watch Jonathan Nolan and Aaron Paul Discuss the Importance of Practical Sets and Shooting on Film in a New Q&A; Nolan revealed that he thought his brother Christopher was "full of shit" when it came to his obsession with shooting on film — until he tried it himself

What Is The Truth About Digital Projection? Dismissed As Inferior By Dedicated Print Enthusiasts Yet A Mainstay Of Cinemas Around The World – We Talk To Cinema Workers About The Pros And Cons Of Digital As A Format


Review: 'It’s Not Me’ Director Leos Carax’s Film Essay Into His Own Cinematic Oeuvre Is A Little Batsh*t But Never Boring; Trailer


Official US Trailer for 'Ghost Trail' French Investigative Mystery Thriller; Directed by Jonathan Millet; Syrian refugee hunts his torturer


The Neoliberal Fantasy of ‘The Brutalist’; Film’s reductive portrayal of an exploited creative ‘genius’ places individuation as the defining feature of existence


Interview: 'The Brutalist' Composer Daniel Blumberg on the Ambitious, Intensive Process of Scoring Brady Corbet’s Epic

Frieze: ‘The Brutalist’: A Phenomenon, Not a Monolith; Far from cold or concrete, this celebrated film pulses with raw emotion, fuelled by the passions and worldview of its creators

How Production Designer Judy Becker Did 'The Brutalist' on a Budget


Backlash Builds: Why The Architecture World Hates 'The Brutalist'; Brady Corbet’s Oscar-tipped film is clearly based on real-life modernist master Marcel Breuer but brazenly misrepresents him and his revered modernism


Interview: 'The Brutalist' Cinematographer Lol Crawley on VistaVision, the 70mm Experience, and Brady Corbet’s Flexibility


In Praise of Stan Brakhage’s Most Disturbing Film Document; No body horror fiction can compare to the haunting revelations of Brakhage's 32-minute film 'The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes'

Book Review: ‘1001 Movie Posters’ The Art of the Screen Teaser; A movie poster is made to promote a film. Hung on a wall at home, it becomes an advertisement for a sense of self


Review: 'Black Dog' Director Guan Hu


Why Don't Movies Look Like "Movies" Anymore? A Passionate Argument for High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Creative Choices


Crime Comedy Trailer! 'Riff Raff' Directed by New Yorker filmmaker Dito Montiel; Starring Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Harris, Gabrielle Union, Lewis Pullman, Miles J. Harvey, Emanuela Postacchini, Michael Angelo Covino, Pete Davidson, and Bill Murray


Gene Hackman Gave Us His Most Underrated Performance in a Suspenseful, Hitchcockian, and Rarely Seen Thriller 'Narrow Margin' (1990); Trailer; "Here, he dials back his usual aggressiveness to play a protagonist who survives on wit rather than bullets"

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