Arts
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The Composer Huang Ruo on Illusion and Betrayal in ‘M. Butterfly’
The question from the Chinese-born composer Huang Ruo came out of the blue: Would David Henry Hwang, the American playwright,…
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A Road Trip to Sample America’s Many, Many Music Festivals
Four classical music festivals. Three children. Two exhausted parents, with a brave grandfather in tow. One bedraggled minivan. It’ll be…
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Carly Rae Jepsen’s Brand-New Boy Problems, and 7 More New Songs
Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new songs and videos.…
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Pregnant Men Were a Movie Punchline. Now They’re Horror Villains.
When I was four months pregnant, just as my midsection had grown vast enough to convert my pregnancy into a…
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Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present
Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present “Blade Runner,” “E.T.,” “Tron,” “The Wrath of Khan” and “The…
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What Should an L.G.B.T.Q. Museum Be? Approaches Vary.
LONDON — “It feels like a religious object,” said Joseph Galliano-Doig, the director of Queer Britain, a new museum here,…
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Max Hollein Consolidates Roles as Met Museum’s Chief
Max Hollein, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will add the title of chief executive, the museum’s board…
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Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington
A few years ago, Zachary Woolfe, a New York Times critic and editor, posed a question: What are the five…
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Jennette McCurdy Is Ready to Move Forward, and to Look Back
When Jennette McCurdy was 16, she was in her third year on “iCarly,” the hit teen sitcom on Nickelodeon. Millions…
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The Meridian Brothers’ Eccentric Mastermind Is Electrifying Roots Salsa
One day Artemio Morelia, a singer and maracas player for an obscure Colombian salsa band called Grupo Renacimiento, awoke and…