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Kacey Musgraves, Offbeat Pageant Princess
Hilton AlsStaff writerIt’s hard to believe that it’s been almost twenty years since I first saw the great director David Cromer’s work. You don’t notice time passing when you’re...
Winter Culture Preview
Nothing says the holidays quite like Franz Kafka, who died of tuberculosis in 1924, right when the Morgan Library was admitting its first visitors. The pairing, a century later,...
Scary Movies for Spooky Season
Rachel SymeStaff writerThere is little better, when the weather turns just chilly enough to necessitate a big scarf and a leather jacket, than to duck into a movie theatre...
The Press-on-Nail Renaissance
Perhaps befitting a group of Irishmen who opened their pandemic breakthrough album, “A Hero’s Death,” with a song featuring the declarative couplet “I don’t belong to anyone / I...
The Brooklyn Museum Celebrates Two Hundred Years
James Ijames has three genres in mind for “Good Bones,” directed by Saheem Ali. First, it’s a haunted-house thriller: Aisha (Susan Kelechi Watson) walks around her new home—a restored...
Meredith Monk Finds the Joy and the Necessity of the Collective
Hilton AlsStaff writerThe ever-astonishing eighty-one-year-old vocalist, composer, theatre-maker, and performer Meredith Monk comes from a family of voices—four generations of singers—or one voice. Her mother was a talented commercial...
The Charismatic Vitality of Pacita Abad’s Trapuntos
Jackson ArnThe New Yorker’s art criticThe Filipina artist Pacita Abad—who visited at least sixty countries, learning from Afghan embroidery, Mexican muralism, Javanese dyeing, Sri Lankan masks, and Pakistani quilts—makes...
Jackson Arn’s Summer Public-Art Picks
Jackson ArnThe New Yorker’s art criticOutside of “immersive experience,” I think the two saddest words in my industry are “public art.” You’ve heard the old joke that love is...
A Little Bit of Everything at Lincoln Center’s “Summer for the City”
From the contrast between Nancy Pelosi’s bubble-gum-pink suit and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s black slacks to the slash in its title, “N/A” emphasizes the divide between the first female Speaker of...
South Africa Mirrors the American West in “Dark Noon”
The Chicago-based photographer Laura Letinsky continues a career-spanning investigation of the tabletop still-life, a genre as old as photography itself (and centuries older in painting) but long out of...