Hilton Als
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Past articles by Hilton:
Senga Nengudi’s Journeys Through Air, Water, and Sand
In a show at Dia Beacon, the artist explores her poetics of the body and her philosophical belief in flow. → Read More
John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres’s Portraits of the South Bronx
“Swagger and Tenderness,” at the Bronx Museum, brings back the beauty of a struggling community. → Read More
Two Views of New York, from Edward Hopper and a Historic Black Gallery
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. → Read More
A Portrait of David Bowie as an Alienated Artist
The musician was a consummate showman, but “Moonage Daydream,” a new documentary, rarely shows him at play. → Read More
Aleshea Harris Stages Black Life
The playwright explores the myths of community, love, and violence. → Read More
Joan Didion and the Voice of America
She knew that her country was built on exclusion and shame. → Read More
Gayl Jones’s Novels of Oppression
In the author’s work, colonization and racial hatred turn mother against child, Black against white, man against woman. → Read More
The Visual Maelstrom of Brett Goodroad
The artist maps nature and his own consciousness. → Read More
Alice Neel’s Portraits of Difference
A retrospective at the Met shows the artist’s deep feeling for all that she is not. → Read More
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s “Hemingway,” Reviewed
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s film examines the burden of the author’s performance of himself. → Read More
Acting Black and White Onscreen
Race as a performance in “Passing” and “The United States vs. Billie Holiday.” → Read More
Tove Ditlevsen’s Art of Estrangement
The Danish memoirist built a literature of disaster, brick by brick. → Read More
Reimagining August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” on the Small Screen
Viola Davis plays the blues singer, whose wounds live right next to her cynicism. → Read More
Royal Competition in “The Crown”
The show depicts not only how the Empire has crumbled but its descent into a kind of domestic crumminess. → Read More
Anthony Barboza’s Galaxy of Black Stars
Hilton Als on the photographer Anthony Barboza, whose portraits of black stars, culled from theatre, film, and publishing, included Owen Dodson, Debbie Allen, Miriam Makeba, Toukie Smith, and others. → Read More
Can Louis C.K. Spin His Troubles Into Art?
Touring for the first time since his sexual-misconduct scandal, the comedian gestured at his actions without really acknowledging what he’d done, Hilton Als writes. → Read More
Joan Didion’s Early Novels of American Womanhood
In Didion’s fiction, the standard narratives of women’s lives are mangled, altered, and rewritten all the time. → Read More
Joan Didion’s Early Novels of American Womanhood
In Didion’s fiction, the standard narratives of women’s lives are mangled, altered, and rewritten all the time. → Read More
Roy DeCarava’s Poetics of Blackness
The artist explored the ways in which race can define a person’s style and essence, and made clear how poorly the color black had been used in American photography before he came along. → Read More
Hannah Gadsby’s Song of the Self
The monologuist’s new show, “Douglas,” is an act of recovery, or an act about recovery, in which solipsism masquerades as art. → Read More