Culture Trust

Columns

Got to Be Real

Angella d’Avignon

March 07, 2019

The dark side of the art world's authenticity fetish.

The Beautiful Game’s Ugly Speculators

Brendan O’Connor

March 04, 2019

There is no ethical soccer under capitalism.

Proud as a Peacock

Eric Thurm

March 01, 2019

How NBC leverages its storied sitcom past against its terrible political present.

The Fairest Soul Brother in England

Andrew Marzoni

February 26, 2019

Eric Clapton's musical blackface.

The Puppet Master

B.D. McClay

February 22, 2019

In the novels of Stoner author John Williams, everything happens suddenly and signifies nothing.

Quiet Down

Madeleine Crum

February 21, 2019

Two new books ask: When is living quietly an act of protest?

Art Killed Me

Rachel Wetzler

February 07, 2019

Velvet Buzzsaw’s superfluous gallery of grotesques.

Social Cyborgs

Benjamin Schneider

January 31, 2019

Participating in the network from across the uncanny valley, these artists seek to critique Instagram from the inside.

HyperNovelization

Olivia Parkes

January 30, 2019

Olga Slavnikova’s "The Man Who Couldn’t Die" and the post-Soviet reality deficit.

A Gender Study

Becca Rothfeld

January 28, 2019

A manipulative and self-important man is as ugly and generic as any Marriott.

Nothing to Do with Art

Rachel Wetzler

January 17, 2019

Gary Indiana's Vile Days revisits his Village Voice art column from the 1980s, which found him skewering the art world's grotesque superficiality.

Cheap Thrills in the Blackout Zone

Nathan Taylor Pemberton

January 14, 2019

Rather than a searing indictment, Adam McKay's Vice is a well-intentioned homage to power itself.