Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story At the climax of Alfonso Cuarón’s 2018 film “Roma,” a woman named Cleo walks into the sea until the waves reach her neck. Cleo doesn’t know how to swim, but her…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I have been thinking about memory these days, because I have been gathering contributions for Class Notes from my classmates at the Brearley School. Seven contributions have come in, either instantly…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Remember the Trompe l’Oeil Sweatpants from Balenciaga? The nearly twelve-hundred-dollar heather-gray drawstring pants that seemed ordinary, innocent of fashion, until the shopper, scanning upward, caught the plaid trick happening at the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The documentary “No Other Land” combines first-person filmmaking with journalistic observation, experience with analysis, to depict demolitions in the Palestinian area of Masafer Yatta, near Hebron, by Israeli forces, between 2019…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Ever since the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce produced, in the mid-eighteen-twenties, what is now the world’s oldest surviving photograph—a lonely, ghostly image of a rooftop taken from a window—the medium…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Rachel SymeStaff writer You’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 in-box. There is…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “The Ongoing Revolution of Portuguese Cinema,” a month-long series now getting under way at MOMA, does more than just present extraordinary (and extraordinarily rare) movies that happen to share a language…
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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There’s a Japanese word, komorebi, that describes beams of light and dappled shadows that result when the sun shines through trees. When I take my dog on walks around my leafy…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “The Passing.” The New Yorker Documentary View the latest or submit your own film. During the COVID-19 shutdown, the filmmakers Patrick Bresnan and Ivete Lucas started spending more time with…