The intersection of sports, art, and public opinion has rarely been as contentious as in the ongoing debate surrounding Spike Lee’s criticism of the New York Knicks’ championship rings. What began as a routine critique of the team’s design choices has spiraled into a broader discussion about legacy, representation, and the expectations placed on one…
It’s tempting, when watching Spike Lee’s BlackKklansman, to file it under “Only in America” and change the channel to something less combustible—say, a documentary on competitive cheese-rolling. After all, the film’s central gag is so brazenly farcical that even Monty Python would have rejected it for being too on-the-nose: in 1970s Colorado Springs, a Black…
Spike Lee Lands in Cannes, Reminding the Planet That America Still Can’t Sit Still By the time the Mediterranean sun had begun its daily assault on the Croisette, Spike Lee was already holding court outside the Palais, red-capped, gold-rimmed shades glinting like a warning flare. The occasion was ostensibly the Cannes premiere of his latest…
