Arts
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The Trisha Brown Company Hires a Choreographer Not Named Trisha Brown
For all of its 52-year history, the Trisha Brown Dance Company has exclusively presented work by its founding artistic director, the ...
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Kathy Acker, Drawn to the Margins, Pushed Literature’s Boundaries
EAT YOUR MIND: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker, by Jason McBride Kathy Acker — proto-punk, tough-stemmed flower, ransacker of texts ...
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Deal to Merge Two Publishing Giants Is on the Verge of Collapse
Penguin Random House’s deal to buy Simon & Schuster, a rival publisher, is close to collapsing after Simon & Schuster’s parent company decided to ...
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Review: In ‘Sandra,’ a Search for a Friend Leads to Self-Discovery
David Cale’s new play, “Sandra,” is packed with classic thriller tropes, as if he had challenged himself to cram as many of the genre’s staples ...
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Review: In ‘Difficult Grace,’ a Cellist Moves Beyond Classical Confines
The cellist Seth Parker Woods presented an evening-long, multimedia program titled “Difficult Grace” Saturday evening at the 92nd Street Y’s ...
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Christie’s Pulls T. Rex From Auction, Citing Need for ‘Further Study’
Christie’s said Sunday that it was withdrawing a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton that it had been planning to auction this month in Hong Kong, where ...
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In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself
Several years ago, during one in a series of visits I made to Ned Rorem’s apartment, he said with his trademark lightness that it would be “kind ...
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Sheriff’s Report on ‘Rust’ Shooting Doesn’t Find Source of Live Rounds
A 551-page report detailing the investigation by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office into the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of ...
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In ‘G-Man,’ a J. Edgar Hoover as Complex as the Country He Served
G-MAN: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, by Beverly Gage J. Edgar Hoover, who served as director of the F.B.I. for an ...
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‘Love and Rockets,’ a Series that Helped Redefine Comics, Turns 40
In 1981, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez were living in Oxnard, Calif., working as janitors to fund the trips they took down the 101 to see punk ...