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The British Hits Are Coming
Also: Cate Blanchett in “Black Bag”; Felix Mendelssohn’s overlooked sister, at the Morgan Library; uncovered songs by “Rent” ’s Jonathan…
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“Moby-Dick” Sets Sail at the Met Opera
Jane Bua Bua writes about classical music for Goings On. Among the most notable opening lines in literature is undoubtedly that of Herman…
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Faith Ringgold’s Message of Hope
Hilton Als Staff writer In 1971, the painter, quilter, and children’s-book author Faith Ringgold went to prison. She was not incarcerated;…
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Goings On Turns a Hundred
Shauna Lyon Editor, Goings On In anticipation of the hundredth anniversary of The New Yorker, I’ve been looking back at old issues,…
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The Outsized Influence of De La Soul
Continuing its study of Mahler, the Philadelphia Orchestra returns to Carnegie Hall with the Ninth Symphony, the composer’s last…
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A Polar-Bear Plunge for the Mind, at Under the Radar
Helen Shaw Staff writer It’s a new year! Hurrah! Time to kick off our fluffy slippers and blast away our winter daze to start 2025…
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How Judith Jamison Shaped Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
Brian Seibert Seibert has covered dance for Goings On since 2002. New York dance in December is all about “The Nutcracker,” the Alvin…
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Criterion Channel’s Thrillingly Evolving Roster
Richard Brody Staff writer The Criterion Channel, the foremost moveable source for art-house and repertory cinema, thrillingly expands its…
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Hilton Als on Understanding Difference in “Alok”
Hilton Als Staff writer There are a lot of ghosts in the exhibition “Dueñas de la Noche: Trans Lives and Dreams in 1980s Caracas” (through…
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What to Read This Winter, According to Tattered Cover
Tattered Cover is a Denver institution. Founded in 1971, it’s now one of the U.S.’s largest independent-bookstore businesses. Kathy Baum,…
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Dalí, Basquiat, Haring, and Hockney at Luna Luna
Jackson Arn The New Yorker’s art critic I don’t know what Werner Herzog is up to these days, but if he’s between projects, I humbly…
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Kacey Musgraves, Offbeat Pageant Princess
Hilton Als Staff writer It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost twenty years since I first saw the great director David Cromer’s work.…
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Winter Culture Preview
Nothing says the holidays quite like Franz Kafka, who died of tuberculosis in 1924, right when the Morgan Library was admitting its first…