Arts
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Joe Bradley Begins Again
Joe Bradley has been having solo shows in New York galleries since 2003. But his latest at Petzel — his…
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Ambient Music Isn’t a Backdrop. It’s an Invitation to Suspend Time.
When I heard the news that my mother had suffered a stroke, the feeling that surfaced wasn’t despair, but an…
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Review: In ‘Harmony,’ a Band’s Success Collides With History
For many people, especially those of a certain generation, the name Barry Manilow immediately summons innocuous marshmallow-soft rock. Regardless ...
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Only Gilbert Gottfried Could Be So Dirty and So Heartbreaking
Some comedians unfurl yarns in the unhurried mode of a jam band, others display the taut rhythms of pop or…
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‘Mississippi Masala’: A Love Story Among the Displaced
Mira Nair’s “Mississippi Masala” begins with a bit of family history that is also a history lesson — the expulsion…
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Let Him Entertain You: Billy Crystal Returns to Broadway
“The worst nightmare is, do you wake up one day and you’re not funny anymore?” Billy Crystal, 74, said of…
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5 Ukrainian Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now
Social media give us responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine almost instantly, but some of the most moving responses…
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Review: ‘To My Girls,’ a Toast to Millennial ‘Instagays’
They don’t seem to like one another very much, these three gay besties weekending together at a tacky Airbnb in…
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Chick Corea, the Master Mixer of Jazz’s Past and Future
When the groundbreaking pianist Chick Corea died unexpectedly, at 79, last February, he left a legacy of experimentation, preserving and…
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Review: ‘The Little Prince,’ a Lumbering Circus
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “The Little Prince,” a megaselling classic of children’s literature first published in 1943, begins with a crash…