Arts
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It’s Gold, Baby. But Niclas Castello’s Cube Is Nothing New in Art.
The fun thing about conceptual art is that it’s totally easy to create. You can say something about the increasingly virtual way many of us ...
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New Life for the Wyeth Legacy Five Miles Out to Sea
Nestled in the Atlantic Ocean, five miles off the coast of the picturesque town of Port Clyde, Me., lie two rugged islands with stories to tell ...
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Clad in a Kimono, a Painter of Warriors Returns to Downtown New York
The figurative painter Chaz Guest has fans in high places. Collectors of his work include the Obamas — who displayed his portrait of Thurgood ...
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J Dilla Was a Revered Rap Producer. A New Book Deepens His Legacy.
Even during his lifetime, there was something unexplainable about J Dilla, the Detroit-born hip-hop producer and M.C. He was an open secret, an ...
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Sundance Wrap-Up: 6 Movies We Like and One We Disagree on
For the second year in a row, the Sundance Film Festival canceled its in-person plans and went virtual, wrapping up on Sunday evening. It was ...
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Review: In ‘Intimate Apparel,’ Letting the Seamstress Sing
We begin with joyful ragtime, that musical theater fallback for telling Black stories of the early 20th century. But the sound is muffled ...
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Review: In Clare Barron’s ‘Shhhh,’ Staging a Memoir of the Body
To get to your seat, you walk past someone’s toilet, stationed next to their sink, above which their pill bottles sit on a shelf. It’s hard to ...
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In a New Documentary, Janet Jackson Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Throughout her two-decade-plus heyday, Janet Jackson was an astonishingly modern pop superstar — a risk-taker with a distinctive voice, a vivid ...
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Private Data Shows Broadway’s Hits and Misses After Reopening
During the long dark months when the coronavirus pandemic kept Broadway shuttered, a hypothesis took hold in parts of the industry: Once theaters ...
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Reawakening the Antichrist (and Other Lost Opera Gems)
BERLIN — The Whore of Babylon, in a grotesque fat suit, belts out a hymn to hedonism midway through the Deutsche Oper’s new production of ...