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  • Critic’s Notebook: The Best Films at Cannes 2026 Challenged Us to Redraw Our Relationship to Reality
  • Summer Culture Preview
  • As sweeping layoffs diminish WaPo theater coverage, critics reckon with what’s being lost

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indiewire.com /1 week ago

Critic’s Notebook: The Best Films at Cannes 2026 Challenged Us to Redraw Our Relationship to Reality

"Club Kid," "Camp Miasma," and "Minotaur" may not have a lot in common, but they all stood out from a weak lineup for a similar reason.

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newyorker.com /1 week ago

Summer Culture Preview

What’s coming this season in TV, theatre, music, movies, dance, and art.

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dctheaterarts.org /1 month ago

As sweeping layoffs diminish WaPo theater coverage, critics reckon with what’s being lost

Writers trace a decades-long shift toward metrics and cost-cutting that has steadily eroded arts coverage at The Washington Post. By TENIOLA AYOOLA

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newyorker.com /1 day ago

“Greater New York” Takes the Pulse of the City

Also: the megawatt hip-hop of Baby Keem, the buzzy period reimaginings of Scottish Ballet, the time-capsule documentary “With Hasan in Gaza,” and more.

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observer.com /1 month ago

Critic Megan O’Grady On Art and Feeling Alive

After making space for herself in art, O'Grady wants to make space for the rest of us.

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

David Armstrong’s Probing Gaze

Also: Jennifer Tilly in the surreal world of “The Adding Machine,” New York City Ballet’s spring season, Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in “Mother Mary,” and more.

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bookriot.com /1 month ago

A Must-Read Book By One of Our Sharpest Contemporary Voices

Cultural commentary can make for absorbing and infinitely entertaining reading, especially when it's being written by this must-read critic.

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newyorker.com /4 weeks ago

“Heated Rivalry” and Its Wine-Mom Fans Reunite

Plus: the radiant pop of MUNA, the visceral paintings of Juanita McNeely, a “Beaches” musical, and more.

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taipeitimes.com /6 days ago

Cultural participation

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nytimes.com /1 month ago

How to Be Cultured: T’s Guides to Art, Film, Literature, Food and More

A highly idiosyncratic compendium of what you need to know right now.

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vulture.com /1 month ago

Julio Torres’s Second Brain

Before it became an Off Broadway show and now an HBO special, Color Theories began as scribbles in his notebooks.

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newyorker.com /2 weeks ago

The Surrealist Blues Poet aja monet’s Jazzy New Album

Also: Joan Semmel’s revolutionary nudes, Aleshea Harris’s film adaptation of “Is God Is,” Rachel Syme on thrift markets galore, and more.

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

“Two Pianos” Turns Modern Melodrama Old-Fashioned

Arnaud Desplechin’s vigorous tale of a pianist’s return home to a mentor and an ex-lover lines up its characters’ traits like dominoes, and ignores the world they live in.

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nybooks.com /3 weeks ago

Don’t Call It Entertainment

In Everthing Is Now, J. Hoberman chronicles a radical avant-garde's attempts to jostle New York City out of its postwar complacency and moral retrenchment.

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

Oneohtrix Point Never’s Sense of the Uncanny

Also: Sarah Larson’s latest podcast picks, “The Rocky Horror Show” and “The Balusters” on Broadway, the French singer Oklou, and more.

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isthmus.com /1 month ago

Welcome to arts heaven

Dean Robbins, who steered Isthmus’ cultural coverage for more than two decades, looks back on ‘arts-critic heaven.’

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

In “Cinematic Immunity,” the Greatest Drama Is Offscreen

Michael Lee Nirenberg’s oral history of classic New York filmmaking centers on crew members whose labor the movies are made of, and reveals behind-the-scenes passions and tensions...

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observer.com /1 month ago

LACMA’s Bold New Wing Can’t Quite Escape Its Own Contradictions

The new David Geffen Galleries has been broadly welcomed as a striking addition to Los Angeles's cultural landscape, but the museum's egalitarian gesture toward non-Western art rem...

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rogerebert.com /2 weeks ago

Cannes 2026: Nagi Notes, Ashes

On two films, including the opener of this year's competition for the Palme d'Or.

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architecturalrecord.com /1 month ago

Editor’s Letter

Everyone’s a critic when it comes to two just-opened museums.

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newyorker.com /1 week ago

All of a Sudden, the Glories of Cannes Are Upon Us

In its first week, the seventy-ninth edition of the festival unveiled standout new works by James Gray, Paweł Pawlikowski, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

“Beef,” “The Drama,” and the New Marriage Plot

Two releases about troubled couples meet a broader cultural moment of questioning what the institution is good for—and what new arrangements might replace it.

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

Isa Genzken Finds Chaos in Order

Also: Raye’s ambitious new album, Nathan Lane’s Willy Loman, Dance Theatre of Harlem’s seminal “Firebird,” and more.

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nybooks.com /1 month ago

Everything but the…

A dispatch from the Art Editor

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