I'm a deputy editor and an art director on the Culture desk at The Times. Here are five things I've been telling friends about lately.
I'm a deputy editor and an art director on the Culture desk at The Times. Here are five things I've been telling friends about lately.
What’s in Our Queue? ‘Best Rhymers of All Time’
ByAlicia DeSantisJan. 21, 2021
What’s in Our Queue? MF Doom
What’s in Our Queue? MF Doom
I’m a deputy editor and an art director on the Culture desk here at The Times.
Here are five things that I’ve been telling friends about lately — including a web series, a podcast and the first museum show I’ve seen since March →
What’s in Our Queue? MF Doom
Music: ‘The Best Rhymers of All Time’
The recent news that Daniel Dumile, also known as MF Doom, had died sent me back to an early episode of “Earworm,” Estelle Caswell’s brilliant Vox video series about how music works. She walks us step-by-step through his innovative rhymes.
What’s in Our Queue? MF Doom
Art: ‘Vida Americana’
This show at the Whitney is a lesson in looking, vividly illustrating the ways in which Mexican painters shaped the trajectory of 20th-century art. I’ll never look at Jackson Pollock the same way again.
What’s in Our Queue? MF Doom
YouTube: ‘Fishing With John’
Long before his new HBO Max series “Painting with John,” out Jan. 22, the musician and artist John Lurie starred in “Fishing with John,” an oddball travel show from 1991, with guests like Tom Waits and and Willem Dafoe.
What’s in Our Queue? MF Doom
Podcast: Krista Tippett’s ‘On Being’
I’ve long been a public radio listener, which is how I first came across Krista Tippett’s “On Being.” In soulful and intimate conversations with figures like the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown and the primatologist Jane Goodall, Tippett draws out deep reflections on life, wisdom and “what it means to be human.”
What’s in Our Queue? MF Doom
Movie: ‘In Jackson Heights’
Frederick Wiseman’s “City Hall” has been airing on PBS, and it’s sent me on a journey through his earlier work. My favorite is “In Jackson Heights,” a long and loving look at the Queens neighborhood that is often said to be the most diverse in the United States.
Here’s what else is going on in the arts: