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For the artist Andrae Green, where land and sea meet is not a line, but an immersion.
Read MoreRoyal National Theatre Director Nicholas Hytner is determined to make the drama as relevant to our own times as to the Bard’s. The setting is a somewhat flimsy, gray-walled salon. Theatrical apparatuses are visible: a klieg light here, a fresnel there. Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Staged by the Royal National Theatre, London, England. Taped by…
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If historian Thomas Crow’s goal is to explain how these rebels of the counterculture reshaped American art, he is at least partly successful.
Read MoreRoxane Gay is a bold writer of impressive range who experiments with magic realism, dystopia, and fantasy.
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James Hamilton’s biography of British landscape painter John Constable is a highly accomplished, beautifully composed, revealing, and richly entertaining work of scholarship.
Read MoreThe weakness of the play is so shockingly transparent –- the love birds spend most of the play orating their (occasionally) steamy letters to the audience –- that the explanation must be that Brand Shakespeare has struck again: companies figure that anything about the Bard will draw a crowd. by Bill Marx I wanted to…
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Aziz Ansari does get laughs throughout his set, but the tone of Right Now begins and ends on a note of sobriety.
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This small jewel of a show has been a Bronx-based treasure for the last seven years, but now, “thanks” to COVID-19, it is available to anyone, anywhere in the world.
Read MoreThe New Orleans JazzFest is made for omnivorous gluttons, which makes it a perfect complement to the region’s cuisine.
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Book Review: “Literature for a Changing Planet” — A Crash Course
Martin Puchner is stumped because what is called for is a genuinely radical rethink about what role literature and literary studies should play in avoiding the global meltdown to come.
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