It’s always a crapshoot at a film festival. Countless movies from across genres, formats and languages all vie for attention. Some are marquee titles from big-name talent, while others are smaller films that are catapulted by a flurry of conversations permeating throughout the event. Those rarely include TV shows, unless you count “The Idol” at…
For all the anticipation and excitement around Taylor Swift’s Eras tour this summer, fans have been reporting something strange. They can’t remember the show. Time and Psychology Today wrote articles about the phenomenon of Taylor Swift fans forgetting the experience of attending the concert itself. In the Time article, Ewan McNay, a psychology professor at…
Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, June 19-25. Details and times are subject to change. Monday BLACK POP: CELEBRATING THE POWER OF BLACK CULTURE 8 p.m. on E! The N.B.A. star Stephen Curry is…
Barkley L. Hendricks, who died in 2017, was known for his sleek, large-scale paintings of his friends. He was less widely known for the photographs taken in the course of producing those paintings. Only recently did researchers and family members overseeing his archives begin to organize and dissect this little-studied part of his career. After…
In the late 1980s, Mike Kelley unsettled audiences from Chicago to Los Angeles with his provocative site-specific work Pay for Your Pleasure. Kelley funneled visitors through a colorful corridor of 42 cultural icons each affixed with a quote celebrating rebelliousness. The work mocked society’s assumptions that artists were pure, their work liberating. For his new…