David Freedlander is a veteran New York City-based journalist. He writes long-form features about politics and the arts, people and ideas, and has appeared in New York Magazine, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, ArtNews, The Daily Beast, Newsweek and a host of other publications.
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How Substack became home to big-name journalists who felt “the Youngs” in newsrooms were putting wokeness ahead of important ideas
Phillip Santos Schaffer’s “Baby Jessica’s Well-Made Play” uses the mine-fall drama that transfixed America to examine connection and empathy, with the audience in a starring role.
Forensic Architecture’s research led to the resignation of Whitney board member Warren B. Kanders. The group’s founder, Eyal Weizman, reveals how they combine art and activism.
John Lithgow played Trump, Kevin Kline played Robert Mueller, and Alyssa Milano played Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow. But the very starry ‘The Investigation’ told us nothing new.
The 2019 Whitney Biennial is the first edition of the prestigious survey of contemporary American art of Donald Trump's presidency, and he is an unavoidable presence.
There are some beautiful works of art at the Armory Show and New York's other art fairs. But you will also become extremely aware of the extravagant lives of the super-rich.
“Frankenstein does feel a bit like the accumulation of everything we have learned over the past eight years. It’s pulling out all the stops to make something crazy complicated”
John Adams, Lucinda Childs, and Frank Gehry created the unique performance piece ‘Available Light’ 35 years ago. As it returns to the stage, the trio recalls its heady genesis.
A new show at the New York Historical Society is less about two men who barely knew each other, than it is the story of the civil rights movement in America.
Music geekdom is a terrible affliction. You have to mostly suffer in private, since who among your friends and loved ones could ever understand that the original Miles Davis Quintet isn’t jazz so much as pure gold distilled into the form of sound, or that the Chicago post-rock scene in the late 1990s rivaled the grunge scene in Seattle in the early ’90s for its brilliance and depth or that no, you can’t go out tonight, you have to go home and listen to the first Faces album on repeat.
“It used to be fearless, provocative, fun—where’s the fun gone from the Street, it’s boring, fuck it,
A body, killed dead by the state, lies unburied in full public view. The authorities say that the corpse deserves to be punished, that the body is that of an invader’s, someone who is a danger and a threat to the community. Chaos ensues, as the community grapples with notions of justice and fairness.
From graphic evocations of the battlefield to meditations on patriotism and the purpose of war, a new exhibition shows how American artists captured the scale and meaning of WWI.
The wars that are ripping the culture apart around the world really come down to a single question: was life a little bit better not so long ago, or not?
In Zayd Dohrn’s play ‘The Profane,’ a romance brings conservative and liberal Muslim beliefs into emotional opposition.
Getting fired by Trump looked like a perfect PR move for the hugely ambitious and popular New York prosecutor. Just one problem, say his friends.
Until it folded in 1973, Barney Rosset’s Evergreen Review mixed erotica and cutting-edge writing with incendiary results. Now it’s back, with literary bad boy Dale Peck in charge.
