The founder of an insiders’ art fair in the Texas town is now planning a bigger cultural center, in the desert, for visitors year-round. It…
View More A New Arts Destination Near Marfa Quietly Takes ShapeCategory: Culture & Traditions
Being Emily in ‘Our Town’: Readers Share Why the Role Mattered
Embodying the Thornton Wilder character “helped heal something inside me that I hadn’t even realized had been broken,” says one.Embodying the Thornton Wilder character “helped…
View More Being Emily in ‘Our Town’: Readers Share Why the Role MatteredBlack, Female and Carving Out Their Own Path in Country Music
Five singer-songwriters discuss the challenges of becoming the change they want to see in a famously homogeneous segment of the music industry.Five singer-songwriters discuss the…
View More Black, Female and Carving Out Their Own Path in Country MusicTheater to Stream: Revisiting ‘Rent’ and ‘Angels in America’
Presentations include the 30th anniversary of George C. Wolfe’s “The Colored Museum”; Andréa Burns in “Bad Dates”; and a solo show by Riz Ahmed.Presentations include…
View More Theater to Stream: Revisiting ‘Rent’ and ‘Angels in America’An Artist Exposing Fascism Through Provocation
Paul McCarthy has spent his career cultivating a visual language of depravity and scathing critique. After half a century, we still can’t turn away.Paul McCarthy…
View More An Artist Exposing Fascism Through Provocation‘Outlander’ Star Sam Heughan Wants You to Love Scotland, Too
Best known as Jamie in the Starz historical fantasy series, the actor and his former co-star Graham McTavish provide a crash course on Scottish culture…
View More ‘Outlander’ Star Sam Heughan Wants You to Love Scotland, TooTranscendent Spirits: Lift 40 Voices and Dance
Streaming highlights: the New York Chorale Society, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence and City Ballet’s ‘Prodigal Son.’Streaming highlights: the New York Chorale Society, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence and…
View More Transcendent Spirits: Lift 40 Voices and DanceFor My Next Trick … Opening a New Musical in Tokyo in a Pandemic
Our writer’s adaptation of “The Illusionist” was slated for a tryout run. Lockdown, a tragic death, cancer and quarantine got in the way, but didn’t…
View More For My Next Trick … Opening a New Musical in Tokyo in a Pandemic‘Liner Notes for the Revolution’ Opens Up New Ways of Looking and Listening
Daphne A. Brooks writes that an old guard of taste-makers is still hesitant to “imagine a pop (culture) life with Black women at its full-stop…
View More ‘Liner Notes for the Revolution’ Opens Up New Ways of Looking and ListeningSnowstorm Disarmed Texas, Trevor Noah Says
“They don’t have snow shovels out there. Their best bet is to grab their AR-15s and shoot each snowflake before it lands: ‘Go back to…
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