The artist Jack Whitten offered the world a new way to see ... movement eventually prompted Whitten to leave the South to attend art school at the Cooper Union in New York City. Whitten’s early works ...

Spoilers for A Minecraft Movie follow: The first clip features Jack Black as Steve, the film’s central protagonist and Overworld expert, introducing his own personal Minecraft world to the viewers.

In the decades since, he has watched the oasis shrivel as the rain has all but stopped and the river has dried up. The thick forests of date palms have withered and thinned, and the fields of ...