ROOMS AREN’T SO important in an Alice Neel painting; her focus was on people. Her work, which attests to the cleareyed compassion Neel felt toward humans of all walks of life, reveals the deep interiority of her subjects through vivid, almost caricature-like renderings — wide-set eyes, dimpled chins, skin mottled
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Very Personal Computing: In Artist’s New Work, A.I. Meets Fatherhood
Ian Cheng was feeling adrift. It was the start of 2013; he was nearly 30, with an art degree from Berkeley and another from Columbia, but he needed an idea, something to build a career on. Pondering the question one wintry afternoon in the balcony cafe at the Whole Foods
When Raymond Chandler Went to Work for Billy Wilder
In the rat-infested trenches of France, Raymond Chandler became an alcoholic, and stayed one. In 1932, after booze had gotten him fired from a cushy job, he resolved to cut down on the gin and become a novelist. He began by selling hard-boiled detective yarns to the pulpy magazine Black
The Morally Troubling ‘Dirty Work’ We Pay Others to Do in Our Place
DIRTY WORKEssential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in AmericaBy Eyal Press “Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America,” a disturbing and necessary new book by Eyal Press, describes with great empathy the lives of workers who do jobs that they themselves find morally
New Work by Suzan-Lori Parks to Be Part of Public Theater Season
The Public Theater’s 2021-22 season will feature a mix of projects postponed because of the pandemic and new works, including “Plays for the Plague Year” by Suzan-Lori Parks. Behind the scenes, the Off Broadway nonprofit — responding to renewed calls for racial equity in the theater industry — said it