arts and culture
‘Fearless’ and ‘Perry Mason’: How to end and not end a season
August 27, 2020There was a lot of fanfare recently around the wrapping up of HBO’s remake of Perry Mason, which unfortunately has a botched ending.
Read more
August 28th online 65th anniversary reading of ‘The Ballad of Emmett Till’
August 26, 2020The Fountain Theatre has a long and esteemed history of producing and often premiering plays addressing the African-American experience, as well as other topics from a socially progressive standpoint.
Read more
‘Black Suns’ at Louvre Lens: Coal mines transformed into gift shops
August 21, 2020This transformation is strikingly visible in the setting in which the painting is displayed, that is, in Lens’s transformation from mining to museum economy.
Read more
‘Green Frontier’ and ‘Wild District’: Bolivarian vs. Bolsonarian revolution
August 19, 2020Two series from Colombia, Green Frontier and Wild District, both Netflix originals and both done by the same production house, Dynamo, stake out the left and right of Colombian politics.
Read more
‘Little Fires Everywhere’: Slow burn uncovers layers of the family archaeology
August 18, 2020But it is hard to argue with a product that through its brilliant acting and writing confronts values and choices of all of its protagonists in such a painful, unblinking sweep.
Read more