Arts
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Amiri Baraka’s ‘Blues People’ Comes Home to the Apollo
The trumpeter and composer Russell Gunn will premiere “The Blues and Its People,” a suite inspired by Baraka’s influential text,…
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‘Party Down’ Is Back. Did You R.S.V.P.?
The invitations have been sent, the appetizers plated, the bottles opened. Rows of glasses gleam like baby stars. And somewhere,…
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He Smeared Feces on a Critic, and Lost a Job. Now, He Wants to be Heard.
Marco Goecke on Thursday lost his position as ballet director at Hanover’s main opera house. The reaction has “been a…
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‘The 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Bite-Size Global Tales
This year’s selections include a film about the disappearance of a sibling and one about the appearance of 100,000 walruses.
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‘Pacifiction’ Review: Trouble in Paradise
Albert Serra’s languorous new film is a dreamy meditation on post-colonial geopolitics.
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Choreographer Smears Dog Feces on Critic After Negative Review
Marco Goecke has been suspended from his position as ballet director at Hanover’s main opera house after he smeared excrement…
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For Burt Bacharach, ‘Promises, Promises’ Was One Broadway Hit Too Many
The perfectionist composer was content with being a one-hit musical-theater wonder, calling the experience the hardest thing he had ever…
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Trugoy the Dove of De La Soul’s 10 Essential Songs
The Long Island rapper David Jolicoeur, known for his freewheeling rhyme style, has died at 54, just weeks before his…
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A Vehicle for Social Justice, Bound for the Frieze Art Fair
Ruben Ochoa is using his family’s old tortilla delivery van to highlight the harassment endured by Los Angeles street vendors.
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Review: Bach Collegium Japan Returns With Chamber Music
Players from the ensemble came to New York to perform works by Bach, Telemann and Johann Gottlieb Janitsch at the…