168 stories by "Hilton Als"
The actress's nuanced ambivalence.
Belle da Costa Greene, a brilliant archivist, buried her own history.
The artist's poignant paintings reproduce the photographs of strangers.
In "Revelations" and other works, the choreographer created a home for Black dancers.
The artist captures the ephemeral and transformative power of light.
The sui-generis trans actress inspired works by Warhol, Lou Reed, and others, yet never broke through to the mainstream herself. A new book captures the brilliant persona she created.
Denise Murrell, in her exhibition on the Harlem Renaissance at the Met, captures the joy of her subject but not the complex humanism.
The artist restores depth and interiority to the caricatures of racism.
Hilton Als reviews Michelle Buteau's "Full Heart, Tight Jeans": sentiment and a sense of community provide the framework for the comedian's new standup show.
"A Strange Loop," a story about a Black, gay theatre nerd, was a surprise success. In his latest work, "White Girl in Danger," Jackson reimagines the soap opera.
In a show at Dia Beacon, the artist explores her poetics of the body and her philosophical belief in flow.
Burt Bacharach's complex, existential pop.
"Swagger and Tenderness," at the Bronx Museum, brings back the beauty of a struggling community.
The poet's new book of photographs and verse is haunted by the dead who will not stay dead.
Museum shows capture the great realist painter's vision of the city and, at Just Above Midtown, the work of artists of color from the seventies and eighties.
The musician was a consummate showman, but "Moonage Daydream," a new documentary, rarely shows him at play.
The late poet's letters are a primer not only on literature but on the man himself.
The playwright explores the myths of community, love, and violence.
The Thai director knows how to find the visually uncanny in the mundane.
She knew that her country was built on exclusion and shame.
In the author's work, colonization and racial hatred turn mother against child, Black against white, man against woman.
The artist maps nature and his own consciousness.
Viola Davis plays the blues singer, whose wounds live right next to her cynicism.
The playwright Sam Shepard's matter-of-fact observations about where his characters stand in the world tell us so much about the world they inhabit, Hilton Als writes.
Hilton Als reviews the new musicals "Beetlejuice" and "Tootsie," which feature performers who help you see the narrative behind all the flash.
