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“Wonder” aspires to make us more empathetic and to help us “choose kind.”
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
“No Other Choice”’s South Korea looks as if it is steadily transforming into a home more fit for robots — manning the sawmills of capitalism — than humans.
Bi Gan’s sumptuous elegy to cinema is an artistic triumph, but the dreamy narrative may leave some viewers restless.
2025 turned out to be a feast year for devotees of soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom. The music found on both of these releases could be thought of as exemplifying three areas Bloom has explored in depth and refined to purity.
Applying a litmus test to art — in this case ideological sanitizing — inevitably diminishes the art.
Appreciations of three remarkable translated works that have preoccupied me for months.
The title of this revelatory book might suggest that it’s limited to uncovering the deficiencies and biases of a particular profession. But “The Coroner’s Silence” is far more than that.
Visual Arts Commentary: John Singer Sargent — A Particular Sort of Loner
Viewing John Singer Sargent and his art through the lens of identity studies and LGBTQ history supplies new insights into claims about his homosexuality.
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