Culture Trust

Columns

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.

Rebel Without Applause

Philippa Snow

January 10, 2019

In The House That Jack Built, Lars von Trier squanders his brilliance for shock.

Exit Through the Novelty Exhibition

Kyle Paoletta

January 04, 2019

Novelty exhibitions are onanistic celebrations of their subjects, and they're all the rage in the art world.

The Rise of the Mindful Museum

Michael Friedrich

January 03, 2019

Always a site of contemplation, the art museum has lately seized on mindfulness as a wellness trend—and a marketing strategy.

Waste Not, Want Not

Madeleine Wattenbarger

December 19, 2018

If the Zero Waste movement wants to move beyond green environmentalism, it has to get off Instagram and into the world.

Built to Flail

Ben Schwartz

December 18, 2018

Woe to any comedian tapped to host the humorphobic White House Correspondents' Dinner or the Oscars.

Sleeping Rough in the Mattress Economy

Ed Burmila

December 17, 2018

We've lowered the bar of aspirational living from condos to mattresses.

Not How the Internet Happened

Bradley Babendir

December 14, 2018

A new history of the internet succumbs to hagiography and subservient yarn-spinning.

Binge Me Baby, One More Time

Logan Scherer

November 30, 2018

The eating video queen of the internet is a new kind of late-capitalist pop star.

Ways of Seeing the New South

Matthew McKnight

November 27, 2018

The pictures in "New Southern Photography," with few exceptions, depict a segregated world.

The House of Markle

Rivkah Brown

November 19, 2018

When the Royal Family admitted Meghan to Windsor Castle, they pulled up the drawbridge.

Thick as Thieves

Philippa Snow

November 19, 2018

In Widows, what should cause tonal whiplash is, in Steve McQueen’s hands, disquieting, exhilarating: capital-R Real.