70 new york | july 8–21, 2019
TV
- (^) Wat ch Queer Eye
Okrrrrr.
Netflix, July 19.
It’s already time for season four of the feel-good
makeover show, which finds our Fab Five again
helping the style- and confidence-challenged in
Kansas City, including Jonathan Van Ness’s high-
school music teacher. jen chaney
THEATER
- (^) See The Rolling Stone
Summer loving.
Lincoln Center, through August 25.
Set in Uganda and fresh from its London premiere,
Chris Urch’s new play tells the explosive story of
two brothers—a gay man in a secret relationship
and a pastor who zealously denounces the life his
brother is forced to hide. sara holdren
POP MUSIC
- (^) Listen to Admission
Miami metal.
Relapse Records, July 12.
Florida metal quartet Torche makes sludge seem
buoyant, feeding bright, triumphant melodies
through crunchy tones and textures. The band’s
fifth album keeps the pace set by gems like Har-
monicraft. “Infierno” is a vision of hell; “Slide” is
stunning and magisterial. craig jenkins
TV
- (^) Wat ch SpongeBob’s Big
Birthday Blowout
F.U. N.
Nickelodeon, July 12.
The dim yet indomitable sponge who lives in a
pineapple under the sea gets a 20th-birthday
celebration. (He doesn’t look a day over, um, how
old is he anyway?) Don’t forget to wear your sea-
bear repellent, and remember, mayonnaise is not
an instrument. matt zoller seitz
ART
- (^) See Ann Toebbe
Inside American suburban life.
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 11 Rivington Street,
through July 27.
American artist Ann Toebbe’s architectural depic-
tions of homes visually morph into something
almost totally abstract, geometric, faceted, and
endlessly enticing. Be transformed by this artist’s
magic love and whispering perspectival acumen.
Sense the sounds of lovers in love. jerry saltz
CLASSICAL MUSIC
- (^) Hear A Far Cry
A Grammy-nominated string orchestra.
Temple Emanu-El, 1 East 65th Street, July 18.
Renovations to Central Park’s Naumburg Band-
shell have interrupted the summer rite of outdoor
concerts there, but that doesn’t mean the music
stops. The Naumburg Orchestral Concerts series
has moved indoors, and Boston’s adventurous
string collective A Far Cry arrives with works by
Tchaikovsky and the 17th- century composer Georg
Muffat, with freshly baked music by Caroline Shaw
and Lembit Beecher. justin davidson
MOVIES
- (^) See Sword of Trust
Marc Maron is a swindling pawnshop owner.
IFC Center, opens July 12.
Lynn Shelton’s ambling, semi-improvised comedy
of racist manners begins in the windowless back of
a truck in which four people are being taken to an
undisclosed location by a white supremacist, who
might be nuts. New York critic Emily Yoshida
admired how much Shelton tossed into her low-
speed blender—“racism, anti-Semitism, addiction,
codependency, and the disorienting effects of a
post-truth world”—without thinking it totally
emulsified. But she loved Marc Maron as a man
“grieving his chaotic former life, still in love with but
tortured by his junkie ex.” david edelstein
BOOKS
- (^) Read The Nickel Boys
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book
Award, and the Carnegie Medal for Fiction.
Doubleday, July 16.
Colson Whitehead has a knack for dragging the
dirtiest bits of our country’s racially repugnant past
into the glaring light, says Vulture’s Hillary Kelly.
His new novel is based on the history of a brutal
Florida institution, as seen by a black teenager in
the Jim Crow South who slowly discovers how
expendable the school finds boys like him to be.
ART
- (^) See Joseph Elmer
Yoa k u m
A museum-level retrospective.
Venus Over Manhattan, 980 Madison Avenue,
third floor, through July 26.
African- and Native-American artist Joseph Elmer
Yoakum, one of the best artists of the 1960s, was in
his 70s when he began to make art full time. See
his faceted colored-pencil landscape panoramas
and their visual calypsos of meandering, curved,
pupalike land masses, undulating bluffs with eve-
ning rains in lagoons, shadows falling across mys-
tic bays, and a sailor-explorer-world traveler’s hon-
est visionary cosmopolitanism. j.s.
CLASSICAL MUSIC
- (^) Hear Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center
Level up.
Alice Tully Hall, July 10, 14, and 17.
Getting sloshed at happy hour is a fine tradition,
but sometimes what you really need after work is
a hit of Schubert. Lincoln Center’s elite team of
chamber musicians oblige in a three-concert
“Summer Evenings” series, starting with Schubert’s
intoxicating B-flat-major trio, and continuing
through an assortment of classics. j.d.
JULY 10–24
To
Twenty-five
things to see,
hear, watch,
and read.
The CULTURE PAGES
PHOTOGRAPHS: JEREMY DANIEL (THE ROLLING STONE); RAPH_PH/WIKIMEDIA (BLONDIE); JENNIFER CLASEN/HBO (BIG LITTLE LIES); CHRISTOPHER
SMITH/NETFLIX (QUEER EYE); NICKELODEON (SPONGEBOB)
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“Aute Cuture,” a high-intensity
blend of fashion-forward
braggadocio and horn fanfares.
“Con Altura,” a commanding
duet with Colombian
reggaetonero J Balvin.
“Catalina,” a bone-chilling,
stripped-down nuevo flamenco
death dream.
“Malamente,” a gauzy, soulful tune
about battling bad vibes.
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