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Best Books Ever: Musil’s Unfinished Masterwork

Best Books Ever: Musil’s Unfinished Masterwork

Credit: Aphra Natley

Best Books Ever series examines authors' singular favorite book of all time. A decadent sachertorte, a very dense topfentorte—from the culture that truly invented the...
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Essay: Should Artists Be Committed?

Essay: Should Artists Be Committed?

Christ's Descent into Hell by Hieronymus Bosch. Fig. 6. Detail of Sisyphus in 26.244. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 613

No, not committed like that. Many in the arts have effectively bought—hook, line and sinker—into French writer Jean-Paul Sartre's dictum that one must be committed—that...
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Plays: First Reading of The Wolf Is An Endangered Species

Plays: First Reading of The Wolf Is An Endangered Species

DOWNTOWN—In what, in my view, is becoming a growing convergence between the worlds of theater, and the special amalgamation of fashion and art that has...
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The Poetry of Materials

The Poetry of Materials

Janice Lourie's computer-driven loom transformed textile manufacturing. Photo courtesy of IBM

Textile art, or as Anni Albers said, "the poetry of materials," has had many lives. In the 40s, we loved fabric. 24 foot stage curtains....
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