Fifty years after its 1976 release, Brian De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie remains a visceral film built on split-diopter shots and a prom climax that needs little dialogue. The retrospective contrasts it with Mike Flanagan's recently renewed television series.
Richard Nelson’s We’ll See, the latest in his 12-play Apple family cycle, opens at the Public Theater and follows the fictional family awaiting U.S. midterm results. Set in upstate New York and staged abroad, the plays explore exhaustion, migration and political life through ordinary characters.
Federico García Lorca, killed by Franco's nationalist regime, is being reclaimed as a queer icon in Spain through a London festival performance and the Oscar-tipped film La Bola Negra. The film's popularity has raised demand for Lorca-related work, and Pedro Sánchez cited it while reciting Lorca in Granada.
China’s first fully AI-generated feature, Sanxingdui: Future Past, earned 1.7m yuan at the box office despite its producer saying it cost tens of millions to make. Film workers in Beijing say AI production is likely to continue because investors believe it represents the future.
Philippe Peythieu and Véronique Augereau, the French voice actors for Homer and Marge, met during a 1989 casting call and later married. They have dubbed the couple since 1990 and record together in a Paris studio.
A Tate Modern survey of Ana Mendieta pairs her Silueta photographs with later rupestrian sculptures, arranging the work by metaphorical places instead of chronology. The review argues that the show emphasizes site-specific practice, the female body, and the artist’s childhood exile from Cuba.
Democrat James Talarico, a Texas state representative and former language arts teacher, is running for the U.S. Senate against Republican Ken Paxton. He co-authored a fine arts funding bill for public schools, reintroduced in 2025, which did not pass and would have been Texas’s first such measure.
The CPGA, representing over a quarter of Art Basel Paris exhibitors, demanded compensation after the 2026 fair closed two days early, citing planned demonstrations. It said galleries were not consulted and accused organizers of poor communication and mistreatment; director Karim Crippa reportedly promised an update.
Ira Sachs’s The Man I Love is reviewed as a film set in 1980s New York during the HIV/AIDS crisis. Its plot centers on theatre artist Jimmy George, who is co-writing a new production and grows involved with Vincent, while the movie sidesteps familiar AIDS-movie conventions.
A November guide highlights ten art shows across Upstate New York, including Julia Whitney Barnes’s botanical works at Tyte Gallery and Emily Nomer’s geometric paintings at Gallery 40. It also cites Judy Pfaff and Michael David at Public Private Gallery and artists chosen for the 2026 Emerging Artist Fellowship at Ann Street Gallery.
A November art-book guide highlights Celia Paul’s Venice memoir, Salman Toor’s painted worlds, Rosa Luxemburg’s secret herbarium, and a new Roy Lichtenstein catalog tied to a Whitney Museum show. It also covers Arlene Dávila’s Visualizing Latinx and its critique of mainstream Latinx representation.
A guide to the 2026 US midterm elections outlines Senate, House, and gubernatorial races where arts funding, censorship, and AI regulation are at stake for cultural workers.
Wicker, a $10.5m medieval fable with Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård, became an unexpected 4DX showcase; distributor Black Bear extended one-night screenings to a full week after sellouts. The reviewer reports that its bed-breaking scene, with moving seats, drew screams like a Taylor Swift concert.
The first trailer for Percy Jackson And The Olympians season three follows Walker Scobell’s Percy on a quest to save Annabeth from Atlas, with Kate McKinnon and Ming-Na Wen among new cast members. The season premieres on Disney+ November 20 with two episodes, then two episodes weekly.
Sian Heder’s Being Heumann follows disability-rights activist Judy Heumann and a San Francisco sit-in, but the review says the film trades that history’s complexity for conventional biopic and made-for-streaming choices.
John Goodman said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that negative reviews hurt Digger before release and likely deterred audiences. He remains proud of the film, while other celebrities and online fans have defended it amid weak box office.
Ashanti says she is re-recording her debut album, which turns 25 next year, in order to own her masters, and describes the new version as sonically clearer while keeping the same classic feel. Her Australian tour opens in Perth on 9 November, and she says her baby son will travel with her.
Core Design developers Paul Douglas and Heather Stevens recall building the 1996 game Tomb Raider in Derby, from hopscotch-grid movement metrics to Lara Croft's change from a Latina character into a British aristocrat. Both describe the game's royalties and success as life-changing.
GaHee Park's solo show Soft Shell at Jessica Silverman in San Francisco gathers new oil paintings that merge landscapes, figures and still lifes into surreal tableaux. Her glassy-eyed heroines inhabit domestic settings where comfort and protection prove unreliable, with dark humor and references to the Surrealists.
Inde Navarrette hosted a Halloween edition of Saturday Night Live that the review describes as uneven: some sketches, including an Uninterested Woman game show, worked well, while others felt mistimed and sloppy. The recap also notes cast costume gags, a PAW Patrol spoof, and a David S. Pumpkins bait-and-switch.
