Art

For more than a decade, Alicia Keys has been quietly developing a musical inspired by her own turbulent adolescence growing up among artists in New York City. Now that musical,…
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Lord knows, Guy Ritchie doesn’t make it easy. That the British director’s new film is stuck with the name Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant smacks of just the sort of…
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These scenes of Nora and Hae Sung reconnecting are pleasant, partly because Lee and Yoo are both nice to spend time with. But as the days give way to one night after another, this…
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What fun is being young if you’re not annoying the olds? And pointed alienation is certainly the energy in stylish Italian comedy Amanda. As played with a cast-iron poker…
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Steinfeld’s Gwen, a fan fave, thankfully gets more spotlight in this film, which delves deeper into her tragic back story and her feelings of displacement in her world,…
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“How’s your day today? Well, all right!” So goes the dialogue in the crackerjack new film Reality, a momentous true story told in chit-chat. Of course, the title is…
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We are now in the month of June, so the idea of Shia LaBeouf in the title role of a fictionalized biography of the revered and controversial Italian cleric Padre Pio directed by…
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In December 1978, Billy Joel headlined Madison Square Garden for the first time, playing three shows on the tour for his first No. 1 album, “52nd Street.” Dozens more performances…
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When the playwright and director George C. Wolfe moved to New York City in his 20s, he got a job at an archive for Black cultural history, where his work saving newspaper articles…
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THE ELISSAS: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia, by Samantha LeachLike the Furies and the Fates of Greek mythology, the subjects of Samantha Leach’s “The…
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