Olivia Rodrigo’s Star-Making “Guts”

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Last month, Billboard published a gloomy survey of record-label executive sentiment about the state of the music industry. Many of those interviewed lamented one unsettling shift in particular—a shift that the…

How to Decolonize the City

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story What does it mean—what would it mean—to “decolonize the city”? As that phrase has become common among architects, artists, and activists in recent years, it has operated more like a slogan,…

Bruce Lee’s “Warrior,” and the Politics of Kung Fu

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Gets pretty exhausting after a while,” Ah Sahm tells his lover Ah Toy in the latest season of “Warrior.” “Surviving?” she asks. “Being hated,” he replies. It is the late eighteen-hundreds,…

Cecily Brown’s Attempt to Make Impossible Art

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Cecily Brown’s art makes me feel like I’m trapped in a “Twilight Zone” episode, getting my ironic comeuppance. Everything I thought I loved in a painting—rich color, fleshy figuration, slithery abstraction,…