The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics see and hear much more than they review. Here is what has hooked them recently. Leave your own favorites in the comments. ‘Her Story’ at the Kennedy Center There was a time in recent memory when a performance of Julia Wolfe’s “Her Story,” for women’s chamber … Read more
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. Audience Participation President Trump’s 99-minute address to Congress was still providing fodder for late-night hosts on Wednesday. Michael Kosta … Read more
Lisa Sanaye Dring’s “Sumo” offers New Yorkers who are little exposed to that ancient Japanese discipline an opportunity to learn about it in an atmosphere of authenticity and respect. The director Ralph B. Peña’s visually splendid staging, with the athletes’ nearly naked bodies deployed as living sculpture, immerses us in the pageantry and poetics of … Read more
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Juan Hamilton, an aspiring artist who enriched the last years of the painter Georgia O’Keeffe as her much younger caretaker, confidant and protégée, but who became the object of sensational accusations as virtually the sole beneficiary of her will, died on Feb. 20 at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 79. His death, … Read more
A forthcoming romance novel by the writer Sophie Lark was pulled by her publisher after drawing criticism from readers over dialogue that some found racist or that praised Elon Musk. The novel, “Sparrow and Vine,” was due out in April from Bloom Books as the first in a new romance series about a woman who … Read more
Pierre Joris, a poet and translator who tackled some of the 20th century’s most difficult verse, rendering into English the complex work of the German-Romanian poet Paul Celan, died on Feb. 27 at his home in Brooklyn. He was 78. His wife, Nicole Peyraffite, said the cause was complications of cancer. Mr. Joris was the … Read more
Three piglets were stolen from an art exhibition in Copenhagen over the weekend after a provocative artist said they would be allowed to starve to death in a commentary about animal welfare in Denmark, one of the world’s largest pork exporters. The artist, Marco Evaristti, said in an interview on Monday that his exhibition, “And … Read more
Memories fade. Documentation disappears. Scenes vanish. When you’re busy creating a world, you don’t always think about how to preserve it for history. So old fliers and magazines get brittle and crumble, photos get lost, publications go out of business and websites get deleted. It falls to archivists — sometimes from a scene itself, and … Read more
The other tenor role is more herculean: Florestan, sung at the Met by David Butt Philip with ardent tirelessness matched only by his dramatic bravery. He enters with a high G, exposed once the orchestra drops out after a beat. There isn’t a fermata in the score, but Philip held the note, less to show … Read more