Culture

The beginning of I’m Still Here is a careful trap. In the first 20 minutes of his new film, the director Walter Salles introduces the Paiva family, a vibrant Brazilian...

Museums are keeping real world images safe for posterity. But what about digital images? Filecoin Foundation is stepping up today to preserve cultural artifacts in digital form using its decentralized...

The first great image of the second Donald Trump administration emerged last night at a Washington, D.C., basketball arena, where the soon-to-be-inaugurated president danced with the Village People. After Trump...

Over the last 10 years, I’ve become accustomed to life in Texas. I’m Australian, but my wife’s Texan, so we spend two months a year living in her home state....

Over the last few months, while walking the dog near my quiet residential corner of the East Village, I’d noticed a former establishment all boarded up and plastered with permits,...

In 1956, the editor William Maxwell was having some trouble with beetles in his roses. “hen I come on the shreds of one that was exquisite in the morning and...

In the longest monologue in “Saturday Night Live” history, Dave Chappelle delivered a pointed message to incoming President Donald Trump ahead of his inauguration Monday, calling for empathy and compassion...

No matter how much has changed over the past decade, one thing remains true: Saturday Night Live never brings in Dave Chappelle for a filler episode. The comedian has now...

I spent the majority of my twenties being “busy.” I would cram my calendar to the brim without much time for solitude and reflection, jumping from work to social events...

As Taylor Swift has famously acknowledged, her presence at Kansas City Chiefs games has a tendency to piss “off a few dads, Brads, and Chads.” It appears she’ll have to...