What has this year been like for the most voracious of culture vultures? A super fan in Chicago lets us into his life without the…
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The Night New York’s Theaters, Museums and Concert Halls Shut Down
Chocolate fountains, Debbie Harry and an artist’s swan song cut short. We gathered scenes from the New York City cultural landscape in the last moments…
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“It was about humans and birds and science and the rights of animals to be free of human interference. So, pretty much a perfect storm…
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But “Between Two Kingdoms,” her memoir of cancer and its aftermath, is striking a chord with readers who are enduring ordeals of their own.But “Between…
View More Suleika Jaouad Does Not Want to Be Your Mountaintop SageDench, Smith, McKellen, Jacobi: On a Vanishing Era of Theater Greats
With British venues closed and years advancing, there’s even less time to see some of the finest actors in their 80s onstage.With British venues closed…
View More Dench, Smith, McKellen, Jacobi: On a Vanishing Era of Theater GreatsFacets of femininity
How an e-catalogue brings together 14 women artists to celebrate the myriad qualities of womanhoodHow an e-catalogue brings together 14 women artists to celebrate the…
View More Facets of femininityStephen Colbert Celebrates the Passing of the Stimulus Bill
“There you go, baby. You’re rich! Buy yourself something nice, like rent or medicine,” Colbert said on Wednesday’s “Late Show.”“There you go, baby. You’re rich!…
View More Stephen Colbert Celebrates the Passing of the Stimulus Bill75 Artists, 7 Questions, One Very Bad Year
Musicians, authors, directors, comedians, painters and playwrights open up about trying to be creative, and sometimes failing, in quarantine.Musicians, authors, directors, comedians, painters and playwrights…
View More 75 Artists, 7 Questions, One Very Bad YearWhat Really Happened at ‘Reply All’?
A podcast was applauded for its reporting on embedded racism in the workplace. It didn’t make it to the third episode.A podcast was applauded for…
View More What Really Happened at ‘Reply All’?A Child’s-Eye View, Both Haunted and Quotidian
In her Graphic Content column, Hillary Chute looks at two graphic works for young people, including the Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s “The Lost Soul.”In her…
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