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      Missing the Gay Best Friend

      In film and on TV, he was a sign of cultural progress. Then he was a tired stereotype. Then he disappeared. So why do we want him back?

       By Mark Harris and RF. Alvarez

      To accompany this essay, the painter RF. Alvarez, who’s based in Austin, Texas, created two works exclusively for T, including “A Bit of Gossip” (2023). “My mind immediately went to a photograph I took of my husband giggling with his best friend,” the artist says. “I cast them in dramatic, colorful lighting and, of course, had to give them some martinis.”
      To accompany this essay, the painter RF. Alvarez, who’s based in Austin, Texas, created two works exclusively for T, including “A Bit of Gossip” (2023). “My mind immediately went to a photograph I took of my husband giggling with his best friend,” the artist says. “I cast them in dramatic, colorful lighting and, of course, had to give them some martinis.”
      CreditRF. Alvarez

    3. What if Mom’s Not to Blame?

      In a recent crop of films and television shows, grown men are obsessed with their mothers — even if they’re not the monsters audiences expect them to be.

       By Mark Harris and Keita Morimoto

      To accompany this essay, the Tokyo-based artist Keita Morimoto created a pair of gouaches exclusively for T, including “The Manchurian Candidate” (2024), based on the 1962 film, featuring, from left, Angela Lansbury and Laurence Harvey. “What was going through my mind while I was painting them was how a contemporary mother-and-son relationship feels a lot more distant compared to in the past,” Morimoto says, “when family ties were probably closer but could have been more suffocating.”
      To accompany this essay, the Tokyo-based artist Keita Morimoto created a pair of gouaches exclusively for T, including “The Manchurian Candidate” (2024), based on the 1962 film, featuring, from left, Angela Lansbury and Laurence Harvey. “What was going through my mind while I was painting them was how a contemporary mother-and-son relationship feels a lot more distant compared to in the past,” Morimoto says, “when family ties were probably closer but could have been more suffocating.”
      CreditArtwork by Keita Morimoto. Courtesy of the artist and Night Gallery

  1. In London, a Rare Space Where Musicians, Artists and Curators Work Side by Side

    A look at a creative incubator where the singer Sampha rubs shoulders with the fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner.

     By Jameson Montgomery

    Caius Pawson (fourth from left, leaning against the wall), the founder of the record label Young, photographed with the residents of Young Space in northeast London on Nov. 30, 2023.
    CreditSiân Davey
    The Building Where It Happens

  2. Why We’re Living in an Age of Twins

    Mirroring, mimicking and doubling are everywhere these days. What does this say about our collective sense of identity?

     By Aatish Taseer

    Peter Hujar’s “Zachy and Gamal Sherif (Twins)” (1985).
    CreditPeter Hujar. Photo courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco © 2024 The Peter Hujar Archive/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

  3. Aliens Have Never Been More Alluring

    Why pop culture now flirts with extraterrestrials as much as it fears them.

     By June Thomas

    From left: Jane Curtin, Harriet Sansom Harris, Ben Kingsley and Jade Quon in the 2023 film “Jules,” directed by Marc Turtletaub.
    CreditLinda Kallerus/Bleecker Street
    Notes on the Culture

  4. How Jewish People Built the American Theater

    It’s a history “based on the necessity of opening up and looking beyond, instead of suffocating in, the small space of the self — not only to avoid being pigeonholed but also to exercise the muscle of sympathy.”

     By Jesse Green

    This past summer, T invited dozens of Jewish actors, playwrights, songwriters and directors to join their collaborators and colleagues for a group portrait in New York, onstage at Broadway’s Lyceum Theater. When nearly 50 of them arrived on Sept. 11, 2023, it was all but impossible to get them to take their places as they sang songs, told jokes and shared stories of lives spent — together, joyously — in the theater.
    CreditPhotograph by Jason Schmidt. Set design by Christine Jones
    T’s Holiday Issue

  5. The T Predictor: What We’ll Be Obsessing Over in 2024

    We asked 46 artists, filmmakers, chefs and other creative people to forecast next year’s cultural trends. (Spoiler: We’re all going to be wearing a lot of brown.)

     By Kate Guadagnino, Jameson Montgomery, Juan A. Ramírez, John Wogan and Carmen Winant

    CreditCarmen Winant

  1. Danielle Brooks and Sam Jay on Confidence and ‘The Color Purple’

    Two creative people in two different fields in one wide-ranging conversation. This time: the actress and the comedian.

     By Juan A. Ramírez

    The actress Danielle Brooks (left) and the comedian Sam Jay, photographed in New York City on Oct. 6, 2023.
    CreditDaniel Terna
    admiration society

  2. Black Folk Musicians Are Reclaiming the Genre

    In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be.

     By Adam Bradley and Justin French

    Dom Flemons at the nightclub FitzGerald’s in Berwyn, Ill., outside of Chicago.
    CreditJustin French
    arts and letters

  3. At Berlin’s Futuristic New Performance Venue, Even the Walls Make Music

    The Reethaus’s spatial sound system inspires events that are immersive, experimental — and surprisingly spiritual.

     By Gisela Williams

    The reed thatch roof of the Reethaus, a new venue for experimental, sound-based performances in Berlin.
    CreditFelix Brüggemann

  4. Why Can’t We Give Up the Ghosting?

    How a disappearing act became the default ending to so much human interaction.

     By M.H. Miller

    Joe Bird in “Talk to Me” (2022).
    CreditMatthew Thorne
    notes on the culture

  5. The Greats

    In our 2023 Greats issue, out Oct. 22, T celebrates four talents across music, film, art and fashion whose careers are a master class in curiosity, composure and defiance.

     

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