Akeelah and the Bee

Mike McQuade is a creator living in Richmond, Virginia. He has spent his career creating illustrations that call attention to important issues facing our world today, for outlets such as the Atlantic, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, New York...

Mexican author Juan Villoro has been a visiting professor at Yale, Princeton, and Stanford universities. His books in English are the short-story collection The Guilty, the novel The Reef, the young-adult novel The Wild Book, and God Is Round, a...

Tony Peake is the author of Derek Jarman (The Overlook Press, 2000) and two novels: A Summer Tide (Abacus, 1993) and Son to the Father (Little, Brown, 1995). As a short story writer, his work has been widely anthologized, and...

Dec 13, 2023 — As twenty-five films are added, the Academy Museum spotlights the Registry’s thirty-five-year history.

Jul 16, 2021 — The spotlight this week is on Sara Driver, Jacques Tati, Bill Duke, Lizzie Borden, and Nobuhiko Obayashi.

Apr 7, 2021 — The four-part series forages for the roots of the ideology of white supremacy.

Feb 28, 2020 — Bong Joon-ho picks twenty directors to watch. Also in the spotlight this week are Jennie Livingston, Jerome Hiler, Dušan Makavejev, and Ritwik Ghatak.

Dec 4, 2018 — Twelve episodic works and seventy-three shorts will premiere in Park City, while Rotterdam shines its spotlight on Parajanov and Godard.

Aug 20, 2018 — The star and producer of The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez made a trailblazing intervention in an iconically American genre, creating an indelible portrait of a Latino American hero.

Aug 10, 2026 — As A. Rimbaud carries on building a dedicated audience, San Diego’s Digital Gym presents a retrospective.