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New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

Letter From the Editors

FIFTY YEARS AGO, WHEN THIS MAGAZINE BEGAN, the founders made a crucial decision: They would call the magazine New York, but they would not restrict it to the city as a matter of geography. They instead chose to define the magazine’s mission as concerning itself with pretty much anything New Yorkers might be interested in. That allowed it to cover power everywhere—Washington and Hollywood and, eventually, Silicon Valley; the rise of feminism (Ms. magazine sprang from its pages) and social movements of all kinds; grifters and scandals; fashion, design, and—gloriously, obsessively—food. It was a magazine about “the new,” and it was also never afraid of new things. So when the internet began to make its presence felt, and other magazines tiptoed warily around it, New York barged right in and…

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

58 MINUTES WITH … Meek Mill

MEEK MILL’S LIFE can be split almost down the middle, into BP and AP: before probation, after probation. Lately, moments from the first half don’t come to him so easily; he’s spent more of the past decade bound to the system than he’s spent out of it. Struggling to recall his last memory of freedom, he says, “Maybe not since I was 10 or 12, sitting at home playing a game all day.” But his snap response feels more truthful: “I’ve never felt free, coming from where I came from.” Once thought of mainly as a skilled battle rapper, Mill, 31, was raised in North Philadelphia (“Millidelphia” to his fans). Ever since he was sentenced to probation in 2008 for brandishing a gun at a cop during a drug raid—both…

58 MINUTES WITH … Meek Mill

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

You Are a Total Amateur

LESSON 1 DON’T BE EMBARRASSED I GET IT. Making art can be humiliating, terrifying, leave you feeling foul, exposed, like getting naked in front of someone else for the first time. You often reveal things about yourself that others may find appalling, weird, boring, or stupid. People may think you’re abnormal or a hack. Fine. When I work, I feel sick to my stomach with thoughts like None of this is any good. It makes no sense. But art doesn’t have to make sense. It doesn’t even need to be good. So don’t worry about being smart and let go of being “good.” LESSON 2 “Tell your own story and you will be interesting.” —Louise Bourgeois AMEN, LOUISE. Don’t be reined in by other people’s definitions of skill or beauty…

You Are a Total Amateur

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

Learn How to Think Like an Artist

LESSON 14 COMPARE CATS AND DOGS OKAY, THIS SOUNDS RIDICULOUS, but call your dog and it comes right over to you, placing its head in your lap, slobbering, wagging its tail: a miraculous direct communication with another species. Now call your cat. It might look up, twitch a bit, perhaps go over to the couch, rub against it, circle once, and lie down again. What am I saying? In seeing how the cat reacted, you are seeing something very close to how artists communicate. The cat is not interested in direct communication. The cat places a third thing between you and it and relates to you through this third thing. Cats communicate abstractly, indirectly. As Carol Bove says, “You don’t just walk up to beauty and kiss her on the…

Learn How to Think Like an Artist

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

Attain Galactic Brain

LESSON 28 What You Don’t Like Is As Important As What You Do Like DON’T SAY, “I HATE figurative painting.” You never know when you will see a so-called figurative painting that catches your attention. So don’t be an art-world undertaker pronouncing mediums dead! “Painting is dead,” “The novel is dead,” “The author is dead,” “Photography is dead,” “History is dead.” Nothing is dead! LESSON 29 ART IS A FORM OF KNOWING YOURSELF ART IS NOT OPTIONAL, not decorative landscaping in front of the castle of civilization. It is no more or less important than philosophy, religion, economics, or psychology. LESSON 30 “Artists do not own the meaning of their work.” —Roberta Smith REMEMBER: ANYONE MAY use your art—any art—in any way that works for them. You may say your…

Attain Galactic Brain

Beautiful Poser

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

Beautiful Poser

NOBODY LOVES Indya Moore quite as much as Indya Moore loves Indya Moore. But let’s be clear: People love Indya Moore quite a bit. They’ve loved her since she debuted as Angel, a sex worker with a face that lives up to her name, on Ryan Murphy’s FX show Pose, a glistening tribute to New York City’s mid-1980s LGBTQ ball culture and its dancers. Fans fell for her the minute she appeared in a Halston dress declaring, “It’s chiffon,” as if her life depended on it. Moore’s cultivated self-assurance manifests itself in many ways: how she swans into the midtown restaurant she chose for lunch, wearing dark jeans and an army-green jacket, and how before sitting down, though apologetically late, she takes a moment to clock people noticing her, noticing…

GIFT EXCHANGE

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

GIFT EXCHANGE

STARRING: Desus Nice, Brian Lehrer, Susan Miller, Kevin Kwan, Katja Blichfeld, W. Kamau Bell, Ramona Singer, Leandra Medine, Tom Colicchio, Radhika Jones, etc. This holiday season, the Strategist invited a mix of 25 actors, comedians, writers, chefs, designers, and other notables—basically our dream dinner-party guest list—to play the classic gift-swapping (and -stealing) game. Starting December 1, follow along to see who won a karaoke microphone, who left with composting worms, and who got robbed at nymag.com/strategist.…

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“You’re Licked Before You Begin, but You Begin Anyway.”

“I HAVE SOMETHING VERY exciting to talk to you about.” That’s how Scott Rudin, the EGOT-winning producer, began a phone call to me three years ago. The last three times he’d called me to say, “I have something very exciting to talk to you about,” I ended up writing The Social Network, Moneyball, and Steve Jobs. So I was listening. “After several years of trying,” he said, “I’ve got the stage rights for To Kill a Mockingbird.” He wanted me to adapt the novel into a play. He was right—it was very exciting. It was also a suicide mission, and I understood that right away. This wasn’t just any Pulitzer Prize–winning novel; it’s one that holds a sacred place on America’s bookshelf. We all read it together in seventh or…

“You’re Licked Before You Begin, but You Begin Anyway.”

Neapolitan Vacation

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

Neapolitan Vacation

BASED ON ELENA FERRANTE’S Neapolitan novels, My Brilliant Friend is a work of quiet confidence. It feels less like a new production than a best-kept secret from another era that was recently unearthed. This is all the more remarkable considering the budget that co-producers HBO and Italy’s Rai Fiction and TIMvision have lavished on it; the central location from Ferrante’s novel—a 1950s-era Naples slum—is a set that looks as huge as the title locales of Deadwood or Rome. Existing locations have been redecorated to match their appearance six-plus decades ago, and the backgrounds teem with period-accurate extras and vehicles: An overhead shot of the Piazza del Plebiscito parking lot boasts nearly 100 vintage cars. Somehow, though, the result feels intimate and modest, immersing us in the particulars of a time,…

To Do The CULTURE PAGES

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

To Do The CULTURE PAGES

POP MUSIC 1. Listen to Warm Autumnal vibes. dBpm Records, November 30. Wilco singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy steps out with his first batch of original songs under his own name, following outings with Tweedy and Loose Fur and last year’s acoustic-hits album Together at Last. Warm was recorded at Wilco’s Chicago studio, the Loft, with help from Tweedy’s Spencer Tweedy (Jeff ’s son) and Wilco and Loose Fur drummer Glenn Kotche. CRAIG JENKINS TV 2. Watch The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel It’s a gas. Amazon, December 5. The first Amazon series to win an Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series returns for its second season with as much fizz as the first. Also back: Rachel Brosnahan (Emmy winner) as Midge Maisel, whose stand-up career is on the rise and whose fashion sense remains…

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

NYC Holiday Gift Guide.....

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New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

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1 In New York’s most recent issue, Kerry Howley examined how Larry Nassar was able to prey on young gymnasts for so many years without being caught (“Everyone Believed Larry Nassar,” November 12–25). The Washington Post’s Monica Hesse wrote, “What struck me during Larry Nassar’s trial was how gingerly and vaguely media discussed the actual abuse he levied on hundreds of gymnasts. This article doesn’t let the pain of girls’ bodies be vague, or gross, or unmentionable. It bears witness to it all.” Georgetown Law’s Lindsey Barrett saw parallels with her own experience as a young dancer: “As a former (frequently injured) ballet dancer, reading Howley’s article felt like a punch to the gut. Ballet is similar in a number of ways to gymnastics—it’s intensely physical from a young age,…

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Select All: Max Read

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

Select All: Max Read

MARK ZUCKERBERG ISN’T the first person in human history to draw inspiration from Augustus Caesar, the founder of the Roman Empire, but he’s one of a very few for whom the lessons of Augustus’s reign have a concrete urgency. Both men, after all, built international empires before the age of 33. “Basically, through a really harsh approach, he established 200 years of world peace,” Zuckerberg explained to a New Yorker reporter earlier this year. “What are the trade-offs in that?” Augustus, Zuckerberg explained, “had to do certain things” to ensure the stability of his empire. So too, apparently, does Facebook. A 6,000-word report published in the New York Times last week disclosed in humiliating detail the lengths to which Face-book has gone to protect its dominance and attack its critics.…

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

How to Actually Begin

LESSON 6 START WITH A PENCIL DON’T WORRY ABOUT DRAWING. Just make marks. Tell yourself you’re simply diagramming, playing, experimenting, seeing what looks like what. If you can write, you already know how to draw; you already have a form of your own, a style of making letters and numbers and special doodles. These are forms of drawing, too. While you’re making marks and drawing, pay attention to all the physical feedback you’re getting from your hand, wrist, arm, ears, your sense of smell and touch. How long can your mark go before you seem to need to lift the pencil and make a different mark? Make those marks shorter or longer. Change the ways you make them at all, wrap your fingers in fabric to change your touch, try…

How to Actually Begin

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

Enter the Art World

LESSON 20 Accept That You Will Likely Be Poor EVEN THOUGH ALL we see of the art world these days are astronomical prices, glitz, glamour, and junkie-like behavior, remember that only one percent of one percent of one percent of all artists become rich off their artwork. You may feel overlooked, underrecognized, and underpaid. Too bad. Stop feeling sorry for yourself; that’s not why you’re doing this. LESSON 21 Define Success BUT BE CAREFUL. Typical answers are money, happiness, freedom, “doing what I want,” having a community of artists, having people see what I do. But … if you marry a rich person and have lots of money, would you be satisfied with just the money? Also, Subway sells a lot of sandwiches, but that doesn’t make them good. What…

Enter the Art World

Inside Bernie Sanders’s Head

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

Inside Bernie Sanders’s Head

BERNIE SANDERS WAS GRATIFIED, if a bit amused, to hear Barack Obama call Medicare for All a “good new idea” in September. The idea has recently become very popular among Democratic politicians, even middle-of-the-road ones with presidential aspirations. In recent polling, 70 percent of Americans say they support it. But of course Medicare for All isn’t a new idea. It was one of the pillars of Sanders’s 2016 campaign for president. He’s been talking about a version of it for over 30 years. For a 77-year-old man fixated on the popularity of his ideas and his candidacy—“Harry, have you seen my crowds?” he once asked then-Senator Harry Reid by way of a greeting in the heat of the 2016 campaign—Sanders sometimes finds opportunities like these to enjoy his newfound influence…

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

The GIFT GUIDE 2018

UNLESS THEY’VE SENT you an exact link, it can be nearly impossible to figure out what to get your loved ones for the holidays. So why not take a different tack: Forget the bathrobe, the fancy socks, and get them something truly delightful, that thing they had no idea they needed in the first place. You’ll find many such gifts in the following pages: natural dye infused with rose petals for the 20-something who’s taken up T-shirt design, a saucer from a long-lost restaurant for the know-it-all food historian, a pink-onyx tub for—well, for someone who has been very, very good this year. Plus: 0.03 percent of a Monet, a sleepover in a haunted castle, and a facial for your hair. And for even more hyperspecific gift ideas, visit thestrategist.com.…

The GIFT GUIDE 2018

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New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

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The Boys in the Band

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

The Boys in the Band

Brockhampton’s IRIDESCENCE is streaming now. THE ROAR OF THE crowd when Brockhampton takes the stage is the kind of hair-raising, not entirely human sound you’d sooner expect to hear coming from the mouth of a dragon on Game of Thrones than from a room full of excited young hip-hop fans. Three thousand people have descended on Manhattan’s Terminal 5 on this brisk October night to see the 13-member self-described boy band perform songs from this fall’s Iridescence, the group’s fourth full-length album and first Billboard No. 1. Security at rap shows is usually a game of cooling tempers and discouraging smoking; tonight’s operation is more like a search-and-rescue mission. Over an hour and a half, the venue’s staff lift a dozen fans out of tight squeezes near the stage. The…

A Growing Up

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

A Growing Up

WITH HIS THIRD feature, an adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) has cemented his style: lush and romantic on the surface, hyperrealistic and grim a short flight down. The tone oscillates—seductive, abrasive, seductive—but it’s always beautiful, because Jenkins and his cinematographer, James Laxton, don’t do ugly. There’s always a jukebox, a spinning vinyl record, a full moon to suggest a better world elsewhere. It’s overripe but heady. The title is heavily symbolic. Memphis’s Beale Street is where the blues are said to have been born, and for Baldwin, the story it would tell is one that sums up black life in 20th-century America. There is the pure-hearted girl, 19-year-old Tish (KiKi Layne), who longs to escape her corrosive New York City milieu; the…

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

JUST THE TICKET

What are the best seats? I don’t think there are any bad seats in the orchestra or first ring. If you’re sitting higher up, in the third and fourth ring, you’ll get to see the choreography in a different way, especially when the corps de ballet is onstage, like in “Waltz of the Snowflakes”—it’s like a snowstorm. Can you meet the dancers? At every show, you can take your photo with a dancer from the “Snow” scene during intermission. Other than that, we exit the stage door on 62nd and Columbus. It’s not super-common that people wait for us at the stage door in ballet like Broadway. We love to hear that people saw the show and loved it. Or take a picture with a kid. What should people look…

Cityscape: Justin Davidson

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

Cityscape: Justin Davidson

AMAZON IS COMING! Amazon is coming!—and New Yorkers are welcoming their robot overlords with clenched fists and a nasty snarl. City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, newly empowered Democratic members of the Legislature in Albany, the just-elected U.S. representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand are all competing to see who can heap more scorn on the deal. The reactions come in various shades of negativity: shock at the size of the gift that the city and the Empire State are bestowing on an imperial company; contempt for the company’s warehouse-labor policies; anger about its pitting cities against each other; rage that Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who never agree on anything, got together to fill up the loot bag; fear that Queens real-estate prices will reach the…

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

HOW TO BE AN ARTIST

ART IS FOR ANYONE. It’s just not for everyone. I know this viscerally, as a would-be artist who burned out. I wrote about that last year, and ever since, I’ve been beset—every lecture I give, every gallery I pop my head into, somebody is asking me for advice. What they’re really asking is “How can I be an artist?” When, last month, Banksy jerry-rigged a frame to shred a painting just when it was auctioned, I could almost hear the whispers: “Is that art?” This fall, the biggest museum event in New York is the Whitney’s retrospective of Andy Warhol—the paradigmatic self-made, make-anything-art-and-yourself-famous artist. Today, we are all Andy’s children, especially in the age of Instagram, which has trained everyone to think visually and to look at our regular lives…

HOW TO BE AN ARTIST

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EXERCISE: Build a Life Totem

➡ Using any material on any surface, make or draw or render a four-foot-tall totem pole of your life. From this totem, we should be able to know something about you other than what you look like or how many siblings you have. Include anything you want: words, letters, maps, photos, objects, signs. This should take no longer than a week. After a week, it’s finished. Period. Now show it to someone who does not know you well. Tell them only, “This is a totem pole of my life till now.” That’s all. It doesn’t matter if they like it. Ask them to tell you what it means about your life. No clues. Listen to what they tell you.…

Survive the Art World

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

Survive the Art World

LESSON 24 Artists Must Be Vampires STAY UP LATE every night with other artists around your age. Show up. Go to openings, events, parties, wherever there are more than two of your kind. Artists must commune with their own kind all the time. There are no exceptions to this rule, even if you live “out in the woods.” Preferably commune in person, but online is more than fine. It doesn’t matter where you live: big city, small city, little town. You will fight and love together; you will develop new languages together and give each other comfort, conversation, and the strength to carry on. This is how you will change the world—and your art. To protect yourselves, form small gangs. Protect one another no matter what; this gang will allow…

“YEAH, I’M NOT FOR EVERYONE.”

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

“YEAH, I’M NOT FOR EVERYONE.”

ONE MORNING, about three weeks after we’d first met, Lena Dunham sent me ten text messages in a row. She was in the hospital, recovering from a procedure to remove her right ovary, “which was encased in scar tissue & fibrosis, attached to my bowel and pressing on nerves that made it kinda hard to walk/pee/vamp,” as she’d later explain on Instagram. She sent me a post-op photo of herself in bed, a red bracelet that read NO BENZODIAZEPINES dangling from her wrist, hospital gown hiked up, her medical mesh panties out. ¶ She sent more photos, all with little captions and taken with Huji Cam, an app that makes everything look like it was snapped with a disposable camera in the ’90s. There were striking portraits of her artist…

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The Fowl in the Play

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

The Fowl in the Play

THE FERRYMAN is at the Jacobs Theatre through February 17. AMONG A CAST of more than two dozen, the breakout stars of Broadway’s The Ferryman might be the animal actors. Jez Butterworth’s drama is set during the 1980s in a Northern Ireland farmhouse on the eve of a harvest, and the characters interact with the livestock, including a bunny named Pierce and, in one striking scene, an Embden goose named Peggy. Though the animals are onstage for mere minutes, they—plus two understudies each—require their own backstage quarters and an intense daily schedule to prepare for the eight shows a week. That’s all managed by animal trainer Bill Berloni and handler Rochelle Scudder, who have worked together before but never with animals like these. “There’s not a lot of precedent with…

Broadway on Broadway

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

Broadway on Broadway

THE GIDDY, SMART, big-hearted new musical The Prom has arrived on Broadway after a much-praised 2016 run at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, but really, it’s always been here. The story begins at the glitzy opening-night party of a self-serious Broadway biomusical called (what else?) Eleanor!—The Eleanor Roosevelt Musical. The show’s stars prance and preen, confident not only in their artistic genius but in the knowledge that they’re nightly “changing lives.” It’s all Champagne and finger food and air kisses until— dun-dun-dunnnn!—the Times review comes in. Faced with a brutal show-closing pan, the devastated actors need a new stunt to raise their spirits and their profiles. Then, eureka! “I know how we can still love ourselves but appear to be decent human beings,” declares Barry Glickman (Brooks Ashmanskas), whose FDR…

New York Magazine|11/26-12/9/18

‘WHY WE DREAM: THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF OUR NIGHTLY JOURNEY (HMH)’

“On a hot, humid day in September, I flew into Hawaii’s tiny Hilo airport to find a bleary-eyed group already gathering. My fellow lucid-dream enthusiasts had picked one another out without too much trouble; they were the ones milling around sheepishly, looking a little rumpled, a little apprehensive, not quite sure what they had signed up for. ‘Have you ever had a lucid dream before?’ a short, intense man asked me, wasting no time with pleasantries. His gingham shirt was mysteriously unwrinkled; he looked as though he might have gotten lost on his way to a business meeting.”…