Vince Aletti

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Sheldon Pearce |Jane Bua |Vince Aletti |Helen Shaw

From the start, Dance Theatre of Harlem’s history has been a cycle of struggle and triumph. The dancer Arthur Mitchell founded it in 1969, in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. The company thrived, until it didn’t, and was forced to shut down, in 2004, for almost a decade.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Sheldon Pearce |Helen Shaw |Jane Bua |Vince Aletti

The musician Tamara Lindeman founded the Canadian folk band the Weather Station in 2006, but it could be argued that she didn’t truly find the project’s calling until 2021, with the band’s majestic album “Ignorance.” One of the best LPs of that year, the music explored our ongoing ecological emergency, mustering up personal meditations from inside the climate crisis.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Vince Aletti |Helen Shaw |Brian Seibert |Sheldon Pearce

The International Center of Photography, founded, in 1974, by the photographer Robert Capa’s brother Cornell, was dedicated to what Cornell called “concerned photography”—the sort of engaged photojournalism practiced by Robert and his close associates Werner Bischof, Andre Kertesz, and Leonard Freed. The museum has broadened its focus considerably since then, but photojournalism, largely ignored elsewhere, continues to be its strong point.

Jun 8, 2024 | newyorker.com | Vince Aletti

Harris, who has taught in the U.S. and abroad for much of his postgrad life, can talk like an academic (“There was a desire to find that subject position . . . as well as the desire to lay claim to a space of greater visibility and agency,” he says in a collection of his work from 2017). Yet he makes art from a much knottier and more intimate place.

Jan 30, 2024 | link.newyorker.com | M. Gessen |Isaac Chotiner |Richard Brody |Vince Aletti

Introducing The New Yorker’s first narrative podcast. Plus: Ukraine’s democracy in darkness; a pediatrician’s two weeks in Gaza; and is Sundance playing it safe? View in browser | The first episode of “The Runaway Princesses,” The New Yorker’s first narrative podcast, is out today. Listen here. To learn about the story behind the four-part series, keep reading for a note from the reporter Heidi Blake.