Arts
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With $60 Million Gift, San Francisco Ballet Plans Focus on New Works
The transformative contribution, from an anonymous donor, is the largest in the company’s 91-year history and one of the biggest…
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Following Yoko Ono’s Anarchic Instructions
A major retrospective at Tate Modern instructs visitors to draw their own shadows, shake hands through a canvas and imagine…
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Writer, Mother, Ex-Wife: Leslie Jamison Is a Self in ‘Splinters’
In her powerful new memoir, the author examines a life composed of conflicting identities — and fierce, contradictory desires.
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The Filmmaker Ed Zwick Likes Books He Can’t Imagine as Movies
What books are on your night stand? A night stand couldn’t possibly hold them all. Piles of hardcovers gather dust…
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Review: ‘The Vince Staples Show’ Is a Hip-Hop Head Trip
Netflix adds to the rap-comedy canon with five episodes that showcase the star’s absurdist, deadpan sensibility.
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A.I. Art That’s More Than a Gimmick? Meet AARON
The British painter Harold Cohen spent over four decades refining his collaborator: an image-generating robot.
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Schubert’s Operas Were Failures. Is Their Music Worth Saving?
“I feel myself the most unhappy and wretched creature in the world,” Franz Schubert, suffering from syphilis and reeling from…
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Dating Woes? Nina Conti Has the Answer, or at Least Some Jokes
In “The Dating Show,” the British comedian and ventriloquist initiates close encounters of the potentially romantic kind. Laughs will definitely…
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‘Munich Medea: Happy Family’ Review: A Friendship Crushed by the Past
Themes of incest and sexual abuse of minors loom large in this strikingly becalmed play named after a legendarily vengeful…
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A Model for Modern ‘Ring’ Operas Is Unfolding in Brussels
Romeo Castellucci’s production of Wagner’s “Ring” at La Monnaie embodies ideas that the Metropolitan Opera should take note of for…