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David Plunkert’s “On Parade”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Nearly five months into Donald Trump’s second term, he is not only increasingly turning America into an autocracy with his endless stream of abuses of executive power but also squandering significant…
The Lost Dances of Paul Taylor
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. If a dance isn’t performed for…
Diane Arbus and the Too-Revealing Detail
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Nude but for white underwear, Diane Arbus regards herself in a full-length mirror, which slants to the right. One hand hovers above her swollen belly; the other grips the tripod leg…
Video Stores, Revival Houses, and the Future of Movies
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story With movie adaptations of books, the essential virtue is audacity, the readiness to transform the source material. That’s equally true of documentaries, as seen in “Videoheaven,” Alex Ross Perry’s teeming new…
Sly Stone’s Political and Musical Awakening
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In May of 1971, Marvin Gaye released what many consider to be his masterwork, “What’s Going On?” A song cycle told from the point of view of a Vietnam veteran returning…
How the Meanest Genre Got Nice
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Two months ago, the world lost a gruff and burly guitar player named Al Barile. He was sixty-three when he died, after a battle with cancer, and those who mourned him…
Why Do Doctors Write?
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first patient I ever wrote about wasn’t actually my patient; as a first-year medical student, that possessive grammatical construct—“my patient”—hadn’t yet entered my consciousness, much less my lexicon. In any…
The Sixties Come Back to Life in “Everything Is Now”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The film critic and cultural historian J. Hoberman’s new book, “Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop,” is as jubilantly overstuffed as its subtitle. The…
Haruka Aoki’s “Nothing to See”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Animals displaying human behaviors are often the stuff of fables, intent on communicating moral lessons. But in this work, by the Japanese American poet-illustrator Haruka Aoki, a cat is, delightfully, just…
