Glenn Ligon, 50, is a Bronx-born African American who has devoted his career to making word-based art that elegizes his reflections on being gay and black in America. The ...
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It is nearly half a year since the Smithsonian Institution bowed to congressional pressure and ordered the removal of an exhibited artwork deemed of...
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When I heard that the National Portrait Gallery was organizing an exhibition drawn from private collections ...
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A recent New Yorker magazine profile about George Condo &nda...
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The contemporary art world may be an orgy of the rich, but occasionally it shows a glimmer of compassion for...
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The Metropolitan Opera’s season is in full tilt, with intriquing additions and changes to the standard repertory. More new production...
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Geoffrey Rush, in Gogol's The Diary of a Madman, gives an astonishing bravura performance that...
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Whether a memoir or an act of romantic self-mythologization, Patti Smith’s book i...
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