Home Art Blog Events Community Programs About Us Membership . Search Home Art Blog Events Community What we do Programs About Us Membership Login . blog — mar 04, 2015 – Save Screenshot of Leonard Nimoy in Y2K Family Survival Guide (1999). In December, Perry Che n organized a panel discussion at the…

Movie: Noah Director: Darren Aronofsky Writer: Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel U.S. box office: $101.2 million (32nd best of 2014) Worldwide box office: $362.6 million Days in U.S. theatrical release: 84 Rotten Tomatoes rating: 77 Metacritic score: 68 Letterboxd average grade: 3/5 CinemaScore: C The…

S ome factual statements I can definitively make about Errol Morris as of the morning of February 9, 2015, four days after his 67th birthday: He met me in a room off the lobby of his hotel in Los Angeles. He was wearing black leather sneakers and gray socks that exposed a few inches of calf when he…

In 1983 a teenaged Andre Young ventured into a Hollywood punk rock club and West Coast hip-hop changed forever Aficionados of West Coast hip-hop like to think that our geographical brand is on every piece of rap product consumed between Atlanta and Sydney. Yet the essence of hip-hop culture in 1982…

William Powell, the author of The Anarchist Cookbook , in 1971 © JP Laffont/Sygma/Corbis O n September 10, 1976, during an evening flight from New York to Chicago, a bearded passenger handed a sealed envelope to an attendant. The note began: “One, this plane is hijacked.” In the rest of the letter,…

The Not Ready For Prime Time Players: Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi (inside) Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman and Jane Curtain This weekend, NBC aired a special to mark the occasion of Saturday Night Live’s 40th anniversary. I thought I’d republish an interview I conducted in…

With just an idea and an iPhone, I crowdsourced the entire recording process (and then some) on my quest for musical glory by Brett Goldstein aka Monte Del Monte I grew up genuinely believing that I would become a rock star. But then somewhere around sophomore year of high school, I became a…

Will Smith’s new movie, Focus , hits theaters this week. It is just the latest odd career choice for Smith (maybe the last, as he’s playing a major role in a superhero movie coming up). He is still among the biggest movie stars in the world, but I’m guessing most of the people reading this haven’t…

The slacker mirror sees what it wants to see. When that mirror is called “Boyhood,” it sees the makings of a masterpiece in the plot-free tale of a winsome pre-verbal child of 6 growing up in real time on camera into a winsome, slightly more verbal collegian who kind of likes photography, magic…

The way the shot is framed, you can only see Bill Belichick’s eyes. It’s the night of the Super Bowl and he is surrounded by the Patriots defense. The man who is publicly so reticent is yelling so loudly that he’s hoarse. “All right, fellas,” he shouts. “It’s the same thing we talked about in the…

Eight movies will vie for Best Picture this Sunday and not one of them was directed by David O. Russell. Given recent Oscar history, this seems a little weird. For three of the last four years, a Russell film — whether it was 2010’s The Fighter , 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook , or 2013’s American…

W ill Forte greets me outside the bathroom, extending his hand as I zip up my fly. We are at the production offices of his new television show on the far northwest side of the San Fernando Valley, and I’ve shown up early for our interview. It’s still 12 minutes until we’re scheduled to speak, but…

Hollywood Has Always Been Original Columbia Pictures This article is best read with its companion piece “ Hollywood Has Never Been Original .” A few weeks ago, The New York Times published a comparison piece between Richard Linklater’s Boyhood — filmed in annual pieces over twelve years — and…

Hollywood Has Never Been Original Marvel/Disney This article is best read with its companion piece “ Hollywood Has Always Been Original .” In 2012, for the second year in a row, there were zero original movies among the highest grossing films of the year. For some it signaled the natural culmination…

Stephen Hawking in 2007. (Bruno Vincent/Getty Images) On April 20, 2009, a moment arrived that doctors had foretold for decades. Stephen Hawking, a scientist who overcame debilitating disease to become the world’s most renowned living physicist, was on the cusp of death. The University of Cambridge…

THE EDDIE MURPHY PROJECT: “96 HOURS” It’s hard to consider the current state of Eddie Murphy, working actor, without eulogizing the man. To consider what he is now necessitates grappling with what he once was. Eddie now exists in a uniquely millennial state of purgatory. Kids must think of him as…

Francois G. Durand/Getty Images Actors have called Michael Bay an asshole, a cocksucker, a Nazi—often to his face—and then swiftly signed up for the sequel. As America braces for the third chapter of Transformers —the latest explode-a-thon from the director of Bad Boys, The Rock, and Armageddon…

Over seven seasons, Parks and Recreation never shied away from its focal metaphor: that life is about making parks out of pits. At times, this idea paid off in ways befitting its resilience. The show’s legacy includes its share of durable friendships and cliché-repellent romances, as well as a…

I'm having sex on a bed floating over a dance floor. Below, the people dancing have become a single pulsating mass. All around me, are other beds, joined together by a narrow walkway, and through the electric fuchsia light, I can see bodies arching and thrusting, mouths open in moans that are…

Home CultureCulture Lists February 24, 2015 5:35PM ET Don’t You Forget About Me: ‘Breakfast Club’ at 30 John Green, Diablo Cody, the creators of ‘Gossip Girl’ and more weigh in on a teen-movie classic Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald and Michael Hall Universal A brain, an…

The Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler. Photograph by JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Today, the Federal Communications Commission, by a vote of three to two, enacted its strongest-ever rules on net neutrality , preserving an open Internet by prohibiting broadband providers from blocking or…

A shaky video, recorded with a mobile phone and smuggled out of the inaugural First Day of Tomorrow technology conference, in April, 2014, shows an artificially intelligent computer program in its first encounter with Breakout, the classic Atari arcade game. Prototyped in 1975 by Steve Wozniak, the…

Who’s your favorite Ewan McGregor? Is it young Trainspotting Ewan — skinny as a Twizzler, a cigarette hanging tragically from his mouth? Is it Velvet Goldmine Ewan — taking Iggy Pop–esque homoeroticism to Todd Haynes’s lofty heights? Is it 2000s movie-star Ewan, looking stoic and handsomely American…

When Kong gazes at Manhattan in the Dino De Laurentiis-produced 1976 remake of King Kong , he latches onto the image of the World Trade Center’s twin towers, illuminated on the evening of his New York rampage by a full moon. He’s drawn to them by forces more powerful than a gorilla’s aversion toward…

At this past Sunday’s Oscars — which took place two years after the death of Chris Kyle — American Sniper was both a signifier of commercial muscle and a punch line. At one point in the broadcast, host Neil Patrick Harris boasted of the movie’s $300 million box office haul by comparing it to Oprah…

Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images Update: A spokesperson for the Spanish government has said that the government did not compile a list of 5,000 surnames that could make people eligible for citizenship. It says the list, which was widely distributed online is false. However, the government still says…

The search for riches in the ground has motivated some of history’s most extravagant endeavors. It has inspired explorers, enslaved populations, and put opera houses in dusty mountain towns . But when the boom ends, the miners themselves have often been left in the lurch. They handle the raw…

It’s a fitting irony that two works of art strongly associated with September 11, 2001—Bruce Springsteen’s “My City Of Ruins” and Spike Lee’s 25th Hour —were conceived in 2000, then woven into the aftermath. Springsteen altered the lyrics to his song—which had originally referred to Asbury Park, New…

Kim Gordon, February 24, 2015 in New York City. Photo: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images There’s a great song on the first Sonic Youth album called “Shaking Hell.” The opening minute and a half — steely, ominous, unsteadily motoric — sounds like a piece of factory equipment malfunctioning in the moments…

Two Dissolve writers keep the 25th Hour conversation going... Tasha: Mike, I was all set to launch our 25th Hour discussion by confronting one of the ugliest pieces of conventional wisdom about the film: that Spike Lee didn’t really have a huge success on his hands until he made a movie primarily…

Jennifer in Paradise.tif – the picture Photoshop co-creator John Knoll took of his future wife Jennifer in Bora Bora. Photograph: John Knoll I t hardly looks like an image that shook the world. But this photograph, taken in 1987 by John Knoll, could be as central to the modern visual vernacular as…

Director Joseph Kahn released a gritty, 14-minute look at an alternate version of the popular Power Rangers characters . The short quickly blew up, and video-sharing site Vimeo briefly featured the video on its front page before suddenly removing it entirely. So what happened, and what does the…

Breasts swing. They sag. They flop. They can move. Over the years, many games have tried to emulate the way breasts behave. There's even a term for it: "Breast physics." If you've played games that have breast physics, you've probably seen how uncommon it is for games to show breasts that move like…

Last summer, Cody Wilson, a law student at the University of Texas at Austin, announced plans to design and print a working gun using a 3-D printer, a device that can quickly produce simple, solid objects out of melted plastic from digital schematics. Last weekend, Wilson accomplished his dream: he…

Editor's note: This story has been updated with UPS's statement on its refusal to ship digital milling machines used to create firearms. The new generation of "maker" tools like 3-D printers and milling machines promises to let anyone make virtually anything—from prosthetic limbs to firearms —in the…

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Christian Marclay's massively popular artwork "The Clock" is comprised of thousands of preexisting film clips strung together into a 24-hour minute-by-minute cycle. It's been widely celebrated, attended by crowds around the globe. Critical praise has been heaped upon it: The New York Times hailed…