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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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Best Books Ever: Musil’s Unfinished Masterwork
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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
The signature of Conchata Ferrell, Sam's mother.
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
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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