Neal Benezra has expanded the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s collection, building and attendance over two decades — and navigated a bumpy last year.Neal…
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Exploring Race and Resistance for Young Audiences
A Harriet Tubman monologue, an animated “Sit-In” and a toy theater short about medical inequity deliver useful messages through varied mediums.A Harriet Tubman monologue, an…
View More Exploring Race and Resistance for Young AudiencesWhat’s a Dance Theater Without an Audience?
A food pantry or a place to vote — or a place to make dance with different expectations: “What we’ve taken off the table is…
View More What’s a Dance Theater Without an Audience?S. Clay Wilson, Taboo-Breaking Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 79
His drawings were so outrageous that, on first encountering them, his fellow cartoonist R. Crumb recalled feeling that “suddenly my own work seemed insipid.”His drawings…
View More S. Clay Wilson, Taboo-Breaking Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 79What Megan Mullally Likes: Soft T-Shirts and Sad Songs
A star of the animated Fox comedy “The Great North” swears by Instagram street dance videos, vintages Ts and “Promising Young Woman.”A star of the…
View More What Megan Mullally Likes: Soft T-Shirts and Sad SongsReview: Fathers, but Not Yet Men, in the Prison Drama ‘Shook’
Samuel Bailey’s knockout professional debut isn’t so much about the pipeline to incarceration than about the toxic masculinity that keeps it flowing.Samuel Bailey’s knockout professional…
View More Review: Fathers, but Not Yet Men, in the Prison Drama ‘Shook’Frick Collection to Open as Frick Madison in March (With Coffee)
Moving a grand collection and Gilded Age luxuries into Marcel Breuer’s modernist landmark.Moving a grand collection and Gilded Age luxuries into Marcel Breuer’s modernist landmark.Read…
View More Frick Collection to Open as Frick Madison in March (With Coffee)A Flamenco Dancer for the YouTube Generation
El Yiyo grew up in Spain’s Roma community. But it was watching Michael Jackson online, he says, that taught him to dance.El Yiyo grew up…
View More A Flamenco Dancer for the YouTube GenerationWhy Idris Elba Chose Comedy to Tell His Most Personal Story
“In the Long Run,” a sweetly comic series set in 1980s London, is based on the real-life childhood of an actor best known for intense…
View More Why Idris Elba Chose Comedy to Tell His Most Personal StoryThe Surprising Ascent of KAWS
Brian Donnelly — better known as KAWS — went from tagger to blue-chip artist, riding the increasingly blurry line between commercial and fine art.Brian Donnelly…
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