Arts
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A Broken Frame, and DNA Traces, Led to Arrest in van Gogh Theft
Nils M. was no rookie art thief. But prosecutors say he left behind DNA evidence on a broken picture frame at one museum and on a heavy-duty ...
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Review: In ‘Sanctuary City,’ Slamming the Door on the Dream
American playwrights typically stake out a territory and stick to it. Tennessee Williams, having adopted that name, became the poet of the ...
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David Alan Grier on Navigating the Art World as a Black Collector
David Alan Grier is riveted by jack rabbits. “I saw one the other day in a grocery store parking lot,” he said in a recent phone conversation ...
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Kacey Musgraves, Country Music Chameleon
Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher Kacey Musgraves’s new album, “Star-Crossed,” documents the collapse of the marriage she ...
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Bushwick Starr Gets New $2.2 Million Home
The Bushwick Starr, an innovative nonprofit theater in Brooklyn, got some bad news during the pandemic: Its longtime second-floor Starr Street ...
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Bicycle Diaries: Cruising With the ‘American Utopia’ Family
On a dock in Queens, David Byrne’s musical bike gang was gearing up to go. “Are we ready?” Byrne called. It was a Saturday in late August, and ...
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Lil Nas X Reveals Himself on ‘Montero’
Lil Nas X, the gleefully queer 22-year-old pop star and savvy digital trickster, often cuts an impossibly confident figure in public. Red carpets ...
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Review: What if ‘Star Wars’ Really Were Japanese?
“Intellectual property” probably wasn’t a term anyone thought to apply to “Star Wars” when the first movie premiered back in May 1977. More than ...
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Yaya DaCosta Joins Elite Society in ‘Our Kind of People’
After six seasons playing the nurse April Sexton on the hit NBC medical drama “Chicago Med,” Yaya DaCosta was contemplating her future in the ...
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Review: After Merce, the Dances Go On, and Go On to Inspire
When a choreographer dies, the survival of the work is always in peril. When Merce Cunningham died, in 2009, the risk felt especially acute. In ...