and speaking up could mean deportation.With
plenty of Adiga’s trademark wit, writesVulture’s
Madison Malone Kircher, it’s a storythat will
force you to reckon with your own ethicalcode.
ART
- (^) See Anne Minich
A partial survey.
White Columns, 91 Horatio Street,
through March 7.
Here, the delightful sight of Philadelphia-based
Anne Minich’s beautifully adorned worksdealing
withreligion,sex,gender,life,anddeath.See
small wall-mounted and freestandingpaintings,
altars,and strangepolyptychs,all loadedwith
sensuous pleasure, dark visions of Heaven,and
things deeply personal. j.s.
THEATER - (^) See Eraser Mountain
A topflight international work.
NYU Skirball Center, February 28 to 29.
You have only two days to catch ToshikiOkada’s
av ant-garde piece about a tsunami-devastated
place in eastern Japan that has begunminingits
slopes for rock to fortify its position.Is thecity
more important than the mountain? Thanthesea?
Okada fuses his characteristic deadpan,thejazz-
inflected rhythms of his theater company,andthe
CGI collage aesthetic of artist TeppeiKaneujito
emphasize the absurdity of our anthropocentric
narcissism—particularly the way human-scale
thinking may actually topple the world-scaleenvi-
ronment around us. helenshaw
TV
- (^) Wat ch Hunters
Jordan Peele’s latest.
Amazon, February 21.
Al Pacino stars as the head of a crew ofNazihunt-
ers in 1977 New York, where a FourthReichruns
the risk of being established in America.Nazisin
America? If only that were hard to believe. j.c.
CLASSICAL MUSIC - (^) Hear Project 19
New York Philharmonic with “America’sDiva.”
David Geffen Hall, February 20 to 22.
Björk’s high, icy voice is so perfectly suitedtoher
tunes that they practically meld in themind,but
the plush-voiced soprano Renée Fleminggives
two of them new incarnations as orchestralsongs.
The program, part of the orchestra’s celebration
of the 19th Amendment’s centenary,includesa
world premiere by Ellen Reid. j.d.
MOVIES - (^) See Melancholia
From the “Climate Crisis Parables.”
Metrograph, February 23.
Lars von Trier’s soul-crushing dramais abouta
depressed bride (Kirsten Dunst) who...perksup
when she discovers Earth is headedfora colli-
sion with a rogue planet. It’s abouttheworld-
destroying power of depression andwhat it
means to fight against the dying of thelight.For
von Trier, the film is somehow the mostdown-
beat he’s ever made (which is saying a lot) yet the
most exhilarating. b.e.
POP MUSIC - (^) Listen to Man A live!
Twenty-five years young.
True Panther/Matador Records,
February 21.
British singer-songwriter and producer Archy
Marshall has a voice that’s weathered beyond his
years and a growing catalogue as King Krule that
mixes bleak, noirish style with abstract lyricism
and austere hip-hop and indie-rock aesthetics.
On songs like “(Don’t Let the Dragon) Draag On”
and “Alone, Omen 3,” Man Alive! continues on
the path of rainy-day reflection. c.j.
THEATER - (^) See National
Theatre Live
All the world’s a movie house.
BAM Rose Cinemas, through March 21.
London’s National Theatre Live film series is one
of the best outings in town. On March 7, BAM
screens a recording of Nicholas Hytner’s Bridge
Theatre production of A Midsummer Night’s
Dream with Gwendoline Christie. Starting Feb-
ruary 21, catch eight broadcasts of Fleabag, the
one-woman show that rocketed Phoebe Waller-
Bridge from the Edinburgh Fringe to global
dominance; darker and more cynical than the TV
series, it’s also paradoxically brighter—a chance
to catch her unfiltered charisma. h.s.
TheCutkickedoffSundanceFilmFestivalwithitssignature
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