Arts
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Michael Gandolfini and the Riddle of Tony Soprano
When Michael Gandolfini was filming his role in “The Many Saints of Newark,” a period crime drama that casts him…
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A Black Theater Flourished in New York. 200 Years Ago.
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A Broken Frame, and DNA Traces, Led to Arrest in van Gogh Theft
Nils M. was no rookie art thief. But prosecutors say he left behind DNA evidence on a broken picture frame…
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Review: In ‘Sanctuary City,’ Slamming the Door on the Dream
American playwrights typically stake out a territory and stick to it. Tennessee Williams, having adopted that name, became the poet…
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David Alan Grier on Navigating the Art World as a Black Collector
David Alan Grier is riveted by jack rabbits. “I saw one the other day in a grocery store parking lot,”…
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Kacey Musgraves, Country Music Chameleon
Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher Kacey Musgraves’s new album, “Star-Crossed,” documents the collapse of the marriage she…
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Bushwick Starr Gets New $2.2 Million Home
The Bushwick Starr, an innovative nonprofit theater in Brooklyn, got some bad news during the pandemic: Its longtime second-floor Starr…
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Bicycle Diaries: Cruising With the ‘American Utopia’ Family
On a dock in Queens, David Byrne’s musical bike gang was gearing up to go. “Are we ready?” Byrne called.…
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Lil Nas X Reveals Himself on ‘Montero’
Lil Nas X, the gleefully queer 22-year-old pop star and savvy digital trickster, often cuts an impossibly confident figure in…
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Review: What if ‘Star Wars’ Really Were Japanese?
“Intellectual property” probably wasn’t a term anyone thought to apply to “Star Wars” when the first movie premiered back in…