Arts
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A Video Game Made Out of Brick, Clay and Tenacity
The handcrafted Harold Halibut, about a hapless janitor stuck in an undersea city, was more than a decade in the…
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Norman Lear’s Art Goes to Auction
The television producer’s prime pieces will be featured in a special evening sale at Christie’s in May.
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How the Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt Became a Chronicler of Black Jazz History
Inspired by the drummer Arthur Taylor’s “Notes and Tones” collection of interviews with fellow musicians, Pelt started his own book…
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At Harlem Stage, Bringing Downtown Dance Uptown
As Harlem Stage’s E-Moves dance series turns 25, Bill T. Jones and other major choreographers discuss its impact on Black…
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Queer Women Behaving Badly: These Movies Scrap the Coming-Out Story
“Love Lies Bleeding,” “Bottoms” and “Drive-Away Dolls” are leading a wave of stories about lesbians living their lives, committing crimes…
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Rico Wade, an Architect of Atlanta Hip-Hop, Dies at 52
As one-third of the production team Organized Noize, Wade nurtured the careers of Outkast, Goodie Mob and Future from the…
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Representing the U.S. and Critiquing It in a Psychedelic Rainbow
People in Venice might hear the jingle dress dancers before they see them. On April 18, some 26 intertribal Native…
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Indigenous Artists Are the Heart of the Venice Biennale
Here are highlights of the range of work produced by Native artists in the pavilions and a central exhibition that…
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Lincoln’s Murder Is Often Re-enacted, but Not at Ford’s Theater
The theater says that allowing the assassination to be recreated there would undermine the gravity and significance of Abraham Lincoln’s…
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Philip Johnson’s Brick House and Its Hidden Boudoir, Exposed
Diptych, dyad, dialectic: The relationship between the first pair of buildings Philip Johnson designed for his estate in New Canaan,…