Life & Love

There are fun missions in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, set during the U.S.-Iraq war of the 1990s. But the conspiratorial plot refuses to engage actual politics or history. Source link

After steering the art program in Madison Square Park for 11 years, Brooke Kamin Rapaport is turning her focus to research on democracy and civic space. Source link

“Hothouse,” at Irish Arts Center, fends off despair with loopiness; “In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot,” at Playwrights Horizons, is a fuzzy world lacking depth. Source link

The undead monsters we know from movies and TV are distortions of a figure with roots in the religious practices of Haiti. Source link

His Pulitzer Prize-nominated history of the war was warmly received by the Pentagon, but rejected elsewhere for ignoring what many said made the war “unwinnable.” Source link

The fair at the Park Avenue Armory, with paintings, watercolors and drawings, includes crowd pleasers as well as exciting debuts from midcentury artists flying beneath the radar. Source link

“I Heard You Paint Houses,” his true-crime best seller about the death of Jimmy Hoffa, was brought to the screen by Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. Source link

After being closed since 2020 at its Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue, the museum will welcome visitors with a new Vermeer show. Source link

Two surveys of hometown artists — one at the Brooklyn Museum, another of those it snubbed — serve as a meditation on recognition and rejection. Source link

This month’s picks include a portrait of an artist, a haunting music performance piece and a chilling missing-persons tale. Source link