The Ugly Beauty of Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Selfies
Cindy Sherman’s new self-portraits are her first pure protagonists: gloriously, catastrophically themselves.
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CreditKiana Hayeri At War
The Many Dangers of Being an Afghan Woman in Uniform
Inside the expensive and complicated NATO campaign to get more women into the Afghan security forces, and keep them alive.
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CreditIllustration by Andy Gilmore How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? With a Telescope as Big as the Earth
A planet-spanning virtual observatory, years in the making, could change how we think about space, time and the nature of reality. Will it work?
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CreditIllustration by Tim McDonagh Seven Boundary-Pushing Cultural Moments of 2018
Jenny Han on ‘Searching,’ Bo Burnham on Marvel’s Spider-Man for PS4, Jesmyn Ward on ‘Whereas’ and more.
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CreditJeff Minton for The New York Times What Makes ‘The Good Place’ So Good?
NBC gave Michael Schur total freedom. So the TV impresario made a sitcom that’s also a profound work of philosophy.
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CreditMickalene Thomas for The New York Times Barry Jenkins’s Films of Love, Pain and Black Male Vulnerability
The “Moonlight” director brings his intuitive approach to an adaptation of James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.”
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CreditMarilyn Minter for The New York Times Lady Gaga Isn’t Done Shape-Shifting Yet
Lady Gaga wants to wear every costume, live out every type of known stardom. ‘‘A Star Is Born’’ is just her latest reinvention.
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CreditPhoto Illustration by Tracy Ma Should Art Be a Battleground for Social Justice?
In 2018, culture is being evaluated for its moral correctness more than for its quality.
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CreditIllustration by Kyle Hilton New Sentences: From ‘American Vandal’
Investigating the behavior of teenagers has become a much more pressing activity than this TV show anticipated.
