Art Review
The Joy of Reading Between Agnes Martin’s Lines
A retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum gathers together more than 100 works from the artist and places them in the museum’s rotunda.
Highlights
-
Photo
Credit2016 Agnes Martin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times -
Photo 
CreditFox Searchlight Pictures/20th Century Fox Film Review: In Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ Must-See and Won’t-See Collide
This film about Nat Turner’s slave rebellion is an ambitious attempt to corral the contradictions of history within the conventions of popular narrative.
-
-
Photo 
CreditCraig Blankenhorn/HBO Review: ‘Divorce,’ in Which She Now Wants to Ditch Mr. Medium
Sarah Jessica Parker’s new HBO series is not as dewy-eyed as its forebear, “Sex and the City,” but it can be a caustic pleasure.
-
Photo 
CreditBarry Wetcher/Universal Review: In ‘The Girl on the Train,’ a Boozy Emily Blunt Never Winks
In this adaptation of the best-selling mystery by Paula Hawkins, Ms. Blunt is one of three unreliable narrators, a heavy-drinking fantasist at that.
-
-
Books of The Times
Photo 
CreditJulia Papp Review: ‘All That Man Is,’ and a Lot He Is Not, in David Szalay’s View
A novel as a collection of linked short stories about masculinity under duress, by one of Granta magazine’s Best of Young British Novelists.
-
Photo 
CreditPhilip Montgomery for The New York Times Annie Leibovitz’s Work on ‘Women’ Is Never Done
The photographer returns to her most personal project with new subjects, a new touring exhibition and a new mentor: Gloria Steinem.
-
Photo 
CreditPhilip Greenberg for The New York Times ‘Doomocracy’ Puts the Politics of Fear on Display in Brooklyn
Produced by Creative Time, Pedro Reyes’s political and satirical haunted house explores industries and systems that seem beyond anyone’s control.
-
Art Review
Photo 
CreditMusée du Louvre, Paris ‘Valentin de Boulogne,’ Bright Star in Caravaggio’s Orbit
This exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows that a painter was not a mere follower of an earlier genius.
-
Photo 
CreditSasha Arutyunova for The New York Times Backstage and Now the Boss: ‘The Only Girl in the Building’
Jennifer Diaz has become the first female head carpenter of Local 1 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
