“A woman must continually watch herself,” John Berger writes, in “Ways of Seeing,” from 1972. “She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself.” Today, we are continually accompanied by a conduit to an endless theatre of women…
In Noah Baumbach’s newly released “Marriage Story,” Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson play a couple who are going through a painful, protracted divorce battle. The movie portrays the dissolution of a marriage as a domestic catastrophe that doesn’t stem from…
In a new short film, the pop star discusses her identity and the responsibility that comes with celebrity. The galactic glamour of Afrofuturism may reign over Janelle Monáe’s aesthetic, but the principles that compel her have always been of this…
Jonathan Castillo’s photographs of Angelenos sitting in their cars move nimbly along a knife’s edge between the familiar and the surreal. In a country where people spend an average of an hour a day inside an automobile, the scenes that…
Ten years ago, while on a short winter vacation, I took my wife to see the International Hockey Hall of Fame, since rebranded as the Original Hockey Hall of Fame, in Kingston, Ontario. This was not the sport’s Cooperstown or…
Inside Judi Rosen’s Nolita denim boutique is a mustard-yellow orb that sits with a satisfying weight in your palm, like an oversized 1-ball. Grafted onto its side is a small reflecting glass that you hold at shoulder level. This is…
One morning, about a month ago, I walked out of my Brooklyn apartment on a quick mission to buy shampoo and ended up having six drops of CBD, the cannabis-based elixir, administered beneath my tongue by a Coloradan named Bodē.…