Rebel Without Applause
January 10, 2019
In The House That Jack Built, Lars von Trier squanders his brilliance for shock.
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Character Assassins
While Romney speaks up for good manners, it's austerity and stability that global investors really care about.
Fresh Hell
January 04, 2019
Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Bedazzled Car
Exit Through the Novelty Exhibition
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
January 03, 2019
Always a site of contemplation, the art museum has lately seized on mindfulness as a wellness trend—and a marketing strategy.
Eat Your Chart Out
January 02, 2019
The online right has a whole host of aesthetic quirks, among them a genuine obsession with terrible charts.
The Year of Our Baffler 2018
December 28, 2018
2018 proved once and for all that cruelty and stupidity make energetic bedfellows. It was the year of children in cages and “a very stable genius,” of Paul Manafort’s leathers and attempts to legislate trans people out of existence. The measured, expert testimony of Dr. ...
Benefactors and Malefactors
December 27, 2018
The Whitney Museum's board of trustees is loaded with malefactors of great wealth.
Pity the Conservative Consumer Watchdog
December 20, 2018
They deserve no sympathy for their awful views, but values voters are right to whine: almost no one wants their money.
Waste Not, Want Not
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
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
December 17, 2018
We've lowered the bar of aspirational living from condos to mattresses.