Performance
A Production of 'Elektra' Where the Performers Yell at You
In the second half of the performance, the conflict extended beyond the bounds of the play, past the stage, and into the real.
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Art
At a Glasgow Museum, Local Artists Grapple with National Politics
GLASGOW — Seeing these artists exhibited together seems to naturally create a dialogue around national identity.
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Call for Applications: AICAD Studio Practice Residency in NYC
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Comics
What My Art Career Feels Like
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Art
The Dark, Enchanted Worlds of Illustrator Kay Nielsen
Whether or not you know it, you’ve probably seen Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen’s work before.
Art
Reckoning with Pop Art's Irrepressible Popularity
CHICAGO — Three major exhibitions devoted to Pop art that opened last year broadened the purview of this movement as a primarily Western (American) phenomenon by unearthing lesser-known artists to provide a global view of art in the 1960s and ‘70s.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Paul Allen's art collection, Robert Caro talks, copyediting Donald Trump, critics of color in February, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Scale
"No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water."
Music
Future's Dark Period
Plenty of rappers are prolific in the mixtape world; in terms of sheer output, this Atlanta trap king puts even the absurdly productive Young Thug to shame.
Art
What Will You Do About Chris Killip’s Challenge?
Chris Killip is a photographer who is deeply concerned with family and community.
Art
The Disappearers
What happens when one’s language is not heard? Or heard, but not recognized? When one’s speech carries within it holes of silences: hesitations, pauses, caesuras, stutters, and apprehensions?
Performance
Splendor Is Never Enough: 'Manon Lescaut' at the Metropolitan Opera
The Met’s new production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, directed by Richard Eyre, takes place in a meticulously, even extravagantly realized World-War-II France, with sidewalk cafes and lots of Nazis.