Pitchfork, the Early Years

A few years ago, the phrase “Dimes Square” began to flit around the art world. It had a youthful irreverence and seemed to be among those “if you know, you know” spots that only a few could point to on a map. I was not among the few that knew. But just before Christmas, I…

The dancers of Compagnie Hervé Koubi spend a lot of time upside down. Inverted, they spin on one or both hands or on their heads, legs spiraling. Upright, they bound into the air, as if off trampolines, ball up their bodies and rapidly rotate in high-flying arcs. They toss one another even higher. This is…

In her own world, Barbie can accomplish just about anything. But in the real world, “Barbie” was dealt a significant setback Tuesday morning: Though Greta Gerwig’s colorful comedy skewering the patriarchy was the biggest blockbuster of last year and set a record for the highest-grossing movie ever directed by a woman, Gerwig failed to receive…

Ukraine’s foreign ministry criticized HBO this week after Milos Bikovic was cast in the third season of “The White Lotus,” saying without evidence that the Serbian actor had supported Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. HBO announced on Jan. 12 that Bikovic, 36, would be joining the dark comedy about wealthy tourists at island…

The third wild film I saw at the Eccles on Friday was “Sasquatch Sunset,” a wordless comedy that follows a quartet of grunting Bigfoots as they trek through the forest for a year. Two of the Sasquatches are played, under heavy prosthetics, by Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg, though you’d never know it was them…

Music doesn’t have the power to end wars. Peace, said Daniel Barenboim, whose West-Eastern Divan Orchestra brings together Israeli and Palestinian artists, “needs something else.” But that doesn’t mean musicians are powerless. On this album, recorded and released with white-heat urgency following the latest conflict in Israel and Gaza, Igor Levit documents a personal reaction…