Search Results: list of Oesper Award winners by year
Oh yes, they thought that to treat human beings like livestock was backward and doomed and obsolete and unscientific and fatally inefficient, but if any of them thought it was indefensibly cruel and morally intolerable, they show no awareness by the evidence of this book.
Read MoreArt Spiegelman believes that “MAD” magazine was more subversive for his generation of protesters than either marijuana or LSD. It certainly radicalized him.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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Is this lineup of jazz performances richer and more mouth-watering than we’ve seen in many a year? Yep.
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Invisible Years is — simultaneously — an indispensable source and a distinguished work of art.
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Back in February of 2024 I began to write a weekly column for the newsletter on Substack. A few readers have asked that I post these opinion pieces in the magazine. Here is a selection of my favorites.
Read MoreA trio of superb off Broadway plays explore the complicated faces of love and lust — from the seamy to the sublime.
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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CriticIsm Commentary: The Welcome Buccaneers of Arts Criticism
“Criticism will always have the force of the child in the story about the emperor’s new clothes, because there will always be naked emperors who everybody says are wearing today’s Crown Jewels.” — Eric Bentley
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