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2025 February


How Artists Are Reframing Climate Doom

How Artists Are Reframing Climate Doom

A silicone cast of a peach tree from her garden that failed to survive Los Angeles’s heat and drought hangs upside down from the ceiling, with bits of delicate bark clinging to its limp branches.


FKA Twigs Leaves It All on the Dance Floor

FKA Twigs Leaves It All on the Dance Floor

When I asked about Charli XCX’s “BRAT” and Beyoncé’s “Renaissance”—two of the biggest club albums of the past several years, each backed by expensive arena tours and hefty production budgets—she distanced herself from those records, calling them “brilliant” but “commercial.” Where they had borrowed from some of the same scenes, she told me, “ ‘Eusexua’ was born from a crevice of subculture.” (Reconciling her celebrity status with her genuine desire to be immersed in—and regarded as—part of the underground can be a challenge.


Mourning David Lynch in a City on Fire

Mourning David Lynch in a City on Fire

Exiting through the lobby, you couldn’t miss a familiar, heartening post-screening buzz: sounds of laughter and exasperation; hesitant, hazardous attempts at analysis; confused variations on “What was that all about?” We could have just seen “Eraserhead” or “Blue Velvet,” or stumbled out of “Mulholland Drive,” as some friends and I did, not too far away, more than two decades earlier.


Trump disbands presidential committee on the arts and the humanities

Trump disbands presidential committee on the arts and the humanities

Other Biden appointees included the artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, the curator Nora Halpern, the actors George Clooney, Jennifer Garner and Kerry Washington, the playwright Anna Deavere Smith, the screenwriter and producer Shonda Rhimes and Steve Israel, a former US representative for New York.


Ayesha Singh’s India Art Fair tent commission remembers the forgotten women of Indian architecture

Ayesha Singh’s India Art Fair tent commission remembers the forgotten women of Indian architecture

The inclusion of Begum adds a further political layer to the work: in 2023, India’s National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) removed significant sections of Mughal history from school textbooks under the guise of “rationalising” the syllabus.


“Mo” ’s Urgent, Uneven Homecoming

“Mo” ’s Urgent, Uneven Homecoming

It’s pulled in less compelling directions by the broad caricatures who now populate the edges of the story, including a marriage-crazed blonde hottie Mo humors until he can’t, and a recently green-card-approved friend whose gun collection seems considerably more expansive than his English-language vocabulary.