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The Guide #255: The great front‑row backlash ignores what makes films feel truly colossal

In this week’s newsletter: You’re all wrong about the most maligned seats in the house, which offer the purest form of moviegoing• Don’t get The Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign...

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Culture Watch: What to See and Where to Go in August

Paul Thek’s Eclectic Art

Also: Tori Amos with Bartees Strange, the French dancer Hugo Marchand, a play about the House Un-American Activities Committee, and more.

Culture Watch: What to See and Where to Go in September

Jocelyn Bioh’s “Mean Girls” at a Ghana Beauty Pageant

Also: Harry Styles takes up residence at M.S.G., “Paranormal Activity” terrifies Broadway, Dakota Fanning and Jake Johnson star in a new movie, and more.

Seeing It All Hang Out at the Fringe

Twenty-odd shows from Edinburgh’s annual avant-garde rumspringa.

“Bayou City Stewards” Proves the Importance of Cultural Sustenance

As artists and institutions grapple with what might be the most arts-hostile administration during what should be a jubilee year for the nation, some are managing to make and mount...

The Sonic Frontier: Why Sound Is Becoming Culture’s New Favorite Medium

"It is no coincidence that this craving for listening rooms arrives just as our traditional social outlets feel increasingly taxing to engage with."

The Modern R. & B. of Olivia Dean and Baby Rose

Also: Cat Cohen’s one-woman musical comedy, the Anthony Bourdain bio-pic “Tony,” Battery Dance Festival by the water, and more.

Julio Torres’s Sea Wench, Qween Jean at Little Island

Also: Flaco the Owl gets a documentary, Debra Winger and Arliss Howard play “The Gin Game,” Broken Social Scene and friends drop in on Brooklyn, and more.

Wendy Wasserstein’s Prescient Play

Also: Misty Copeland’s Ballet Festival, the cogent poetry of Noname, the films of Otar Iosseliani, and more.

What to Do in New York City This Fall

Culture preview: what’s coming this season in TV, movies, art, theatre, dance, and music.

Róisín Stack: ‘Project Runway lost its focus – it was like RuPaul’s Drag Race with a side of sewing’

My Cultural Life

Culture, comedy and plenty of laughs with Arabs and Asians

If you’re looking for something entertaining, different and guaranteed to give you a good few laughs at the Fringe, check out Arabs and Asians playing this week at the Pleasance Co...

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South Korean dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the 48th Unesco World Heritage Committee session in Busan, South Korea. — AFP

Scenic Route

The season’s new releases give us a cultural road map, but the most rewarding reading, listening and watching comes from the detours.

Ways of Seeing

By Will Kennedy On a recent warm July afternoon, seven artists gathered behind easels in a curtained-off area at New Zone Gallery in downtown Eugene. … Continue reading →

“Dreams in Nightmares” Turns the Art Life Political

Struggles for personal and creative freedom fuel Shatara Michelle Ford’s second feature, about three women’s search for a friend gone missing.

Top of the Line: We Are We Going, Where Have We Been?

IndieWire's Craft Newsletter returns with teenage sex and death — and dragons!

Honoring Black Cinema Legends at MVAAFF 2026

Step inside The Cut’s second annual Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival portrait studio, featuring Danielle Brooks, Laverne Cox and more.

Where the Front Row Drinks and Dines During New York Fashion Week

The 15 restaurants that matter after the shows, including a piano bar modeled on Diana Vreeland's living room and Fashion Week's likeliest new uptown power table.

Inside the New Metro Weekly: Elegance Bratton Talks Hollywood and House

Also inside: Isaiah Rashad hits the road, corporate DEI holds firm, and Keegan’s Gruesome Playground Injuries. The post Inside the New Metro Weekly: Elegance Bratton Talks Hollywoo...

Kultur für alle: Strömende Scharen

Kultur kann Häuser füllen, das zeigt sich gerade im Kölner Museum Ludwig bei der Yayoi-Kusama-Ausstellung und im Kino mit dem neuesten Nolan-Film. mehr...