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The Newport Folk Festival’s biggest secrets were cleanly hidden and tightly executed with the day-capping revelations of Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell.
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Demanding that people pay attention to quality is about as audacious a demand you can take in our giddy culture.
Read MoreAn Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual art, and film that’s coming up this week. A new feature!
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in dance, music, film, and theater that’s coming up this week.
Read MoreFuse Theater critics pick some of the outstanding shows of the past year.
Read MoreThis first novel from Arab-American writer Thérèse Soukar Chehade, who teaches English Language Education at a school in Amherst, Massachusetts, turns out to be a thoughtful family portrait that deals subtly with the variegated experiences of being outsiders in a strange land and the pulls of loss, memory, and desire. Loom by Thérèse Soukar Chehade.…
Read MoreLegendary music journalist Jules Siegel died of a heart attack on November 17, 2012 at the age of 77. There was no “New York Times” obituary, no mention in “Rolling Stone.” But to me, he was a rock star.
Read MoreBy the end of Andris Nelsons’s inaugural season he had the BSO playing with lots of energy and like they really care, night in and out.
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Arts Commentary: With Friends Like These — The New York Times Explains Why Criticism Matters
The important question the NYTBR Editors fail to ask is whether the traditional definition and values of literary criticism will survive in an age of ebooks and iPads. Is there a primal appetite for criticism? (Edith Wharton says there is, and I believe her.) How will the Internet shape our innate desire to compare, judge,…
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