Arts
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Review: Showing Off Rock-Solid Technique and Some Erotic Acrobatics
Philadanco! returns to New York with four premieres that highlight the dancers’ skills without revealing much deeper artistry.
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Lincoln Center’s Leader, Henry Timms, to Depart After Five Years
After guiding the arts organization through the pandemic and completing the renovation of David Geffen Hall, he is leaving to…
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How Robots Learned to Write So Well
“Literary Theory for Robots,” by Dennis Yi Tenen, a software engineer turned literature professor, shows how the “intelligence” in artificial…
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Perfection and Precision in a Poet’s Miniature Worlds
The poems in Mary Jo Bang’s latest collection, “A Film in Which I Play Everyone,” are full of pleasure, color,…
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Untangling the Pasts of Slavery, Colonialism and Art
A new exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London looks at how artists of earlier centuries depicted enslaved…
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Da’Vine Joy Randolph: Major Prizes, Major Attention, Major Unease
The “Holdovers” star Da’Vine Joy Randolph has had a charmed run through awards season so far: Considered the favorite for…
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Ai Weiwei’s ‘Zodiac’ Is a Mystical Memory Tour
Like a cosmological comic, the artist’s new ‘graphic memoir’ entwines recalled experience with legend and imagination.
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Joan Lader Keeps Broadway in Tune
“She saved my career,” Patti LuPone said of this indispensable vocal therapist and coach whose clients include Madonna and Billy…
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love John Coltrane
Coltrane changed the game in American music a few times over. Here’s a guided tour to his career, courtesy of…
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‘Perfect Days’ Review: Hanging On
Directed by Wim Wenders, this Oscar-nominated Japanese drama gently excavates the life of a toilet cleaner, and the shadows that…