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‘Evita’ Star James Olivas on Playing a New-Era Juan Perón, Political Parallels, and Puzzles
It’s a new week at the London Palladium theater, where the Evita cast is collectively shaking off a bug. “We were really limping across…
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Fantasy and Fabrication Through a Hmong American Lens
In 2012, artist Pao Houa Her observed a group of Hmong men perform a military honors ceremony at her uncle’s funeral. She learned that…
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How One Artist Is Transforming an Ancient Taiwanese Folk Craft
Alemani first encountered Zhang Xu’s work last year while on an art-prize jury and was struck by his craftsmanship and detail. “It seems…
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In Newport, a Suite of New Paintings by Cy Gavin Consider the Sea–and the Stars
He would go about this in a few different ways. For one thing, Gavin used real yacht sails—two mainsails, one jib—as his canvases,…
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In Defense of the Traditional Review
Last week, when the Times announced a shakeup of its arts desk that involved reassigning four of its critics—of theatre, TV, pop music,…
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Gillian Murphy Left It All on the Stage
While Murphy is renowned for her technical prowess, it is her emotional intelligence that drew her to dance as a child. “Some people have…
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With His New Show, ‘Ta-Da!,’ Josh Sharp Finds the Magic—and the Music—in a 2,000-Slide PowerPoint Presentation
This show has 2,000 slides that you present in 80 minutes. What was the memorization and rehearsal process like? As long as I’ve been…
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Shopping, Theater, Pizza by Moonlight: How Hamish Bowles Spent One Glorious Midsummer Weekend in Tangier
We were then bidden to the Tangier American Legation Museum that night, and rather wonderful it is, right in the medina. Once a slightly…
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‘Phantom,’ Transformed: A First Look at the Costumes of New York’s Immersive ‘Masquerade’
For Sosa, a Broadway mainstay who got his start at New York’s storied Grace Costumes shop, working with opera divas Beverly Stills and…
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How to Navigate Upstate Art Weekend, According to Six Hudson Valley Insiders
The highlight of Pham’s last Upstate Art Weekend was visiting the open studios at Foreland, the three-building, 85,000-square-foot campus…
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Couture Week Opens With a Cinematic Bal d’Été, Directed by Sofia Coppola at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Though MAD has hosted galas before, the museum’s president, Lionel Sauvage, described this one as its “first real family ball.” “Everyone…
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Art That Moves: Jordan Roth and Laurence des Cars on Crafting a One-of-a-Kind Performance Piece at the Louvre
Next Thursday night in Paris, after the final show on the haute couture schedule has ended, an altogether different show will take place…
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They Grew Up Together in the Hamptons. Now, They’re Reshaping the Local Art Scene
It’s Memorial Day, and Molly Channing, Cornelia’s mother, is at the grill flipping hotdogs and hamburgers. The gravel crunches as more and…
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Daniella Luxembourg on René Magirtte’s Phantom Landscapes
Luxembourg + Co., a tony gallery that’s been putting on museum-like shows in New York and London since 2011, has outdone itself in their…
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How Patti Came Under Fire
What a beautiful day! Patti LuPone, fresh off the set of And Just Like That…, has caused an internet kerfuffle with her astute (and…
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Maya Hawke on Making Her Off-Broadway Debut, the End of ‘Stranger Things,’ and Her Fan Letters to Emma Stone
Like Broadway’s long-running Hadestown, Eurydice flips that old story on its head, rewriting Eurydice (Hawke) as the protagonist. We see…
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Dispatch From London: Jack Lowden Is a Force in Soho Place’s Compelling ‘The Fifth Step’
When I arrived in England years ago for my studies, I was fairly shocked at my new classmates’ drinking. That’s not just because most…
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With the Public Theater’s ‘Goddess,’ Amber Iman Steps Into Her Powers
The past 10—and especially five—years, there’s been a push to rewrite the canon, to include more voices. Now we’re in kind of a mask-off…
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For Her First New York Solo Show, Antonia Showering Digs Into the ‘Messy Beauty’ of Life in Flux
In the Alice Neel–esque The Waiting Room (2025), Showering paints a nude woman on a bed with a baby tethered to her by an umbilical cord.…
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From the East Village Scene to the Frieze Art Fair—Tabboo! Is a New York Voice Worth Listening to, Now More Than Ever
It’s been a huge week for cultural institutions in New York. Following Monday’s Met Gala, Frieze New York kicked off yesterday at The Shed…
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The Astonishing Clarity of Artist Gunnel Wåhlstrand
From a distance, the ink wash paintings made by Swedish artist Gunnel Wåhlstrand could conceivably be photographs. Even as you step closer…
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Director Jessica Grindstaff Talks Us Through Port(al), Her Innovative, Multimedia Collaboration With the Brooklyn Youth Chorus
While the building—its size and scale, its history, its symbolism and 80-foot ceilings and epiphanies and imperfections—is undoubtedly a…
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The 2025 Tony Nominees Have Been Announced! See the Full List
Another banner Broadway season has come to an end, crammed with record-shattering, blockbuster productions; thrilling Broadway debuts; and…
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What Does a 10-Year-Old Think of ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’?
What is Stranger Things: The First Shadow? This was not a question that bedeviled my 10-year-old son, happy as he was to be headed to…