Broadway stars make it look easy — hitting a high C, crying on demand, landing a complex turn with taps, doing all that as many as eight times a week. But behind the curtain, before a show, the groundwork is laid: the vocal cord steaming, the fight …
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Amy Sherald’s Blue Sky Vision for America
At the Whitney, her pristine and color-drenched paintings of neighbors and dreamers and a kid on a slide challenge the conventions of portraiture.
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A Pussy Riot Artist Is Back in Prison (This Time, by Design)
Nadya Tolokonnikova, the founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, has long experienced the threat — and reality — of government surveillance. After the group’s anti-Putin, balaclava-wearing, punk-inspired performance at Moscow’s main …
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Billy Woods Is Scary Good at Rapping
His 12th solo album, “Golliwog,” arrives at a peak in his career as a verbally inventive, independent hip-hop artist. It’s also full of horror stories.
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In Her Botanical Paintings, Hilma af Klint Hurtles Back to Earth
At the Museum of Modern Art, a watercolor herbarium from 1919 and 1920 flaunts the literal side, and even the preachiness, of abstraction’s superheroine.
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Anatomy of a $70 Million Auction Flop
Why did the star lot of the spring season, a bronze head by the master sculptor Alberto Giacometti, fail to sell at Sotheby’s on Tuesday?
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Bond Traders Enter the Budget Fight
Concerns about the deficit-stretching potential of President Trump’s tax plan is spooking some investors, even as Republicans argue over its particulars.
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Help! A Cruise Line Charged Us $800 for a Day Trip We Didn’t Take.
After our columnist inquired about a surprise bill for a whale-watching outing, Holland America changed the way it handles passengers wait-listed for excursions.
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Max, antes conocido como HBO Max, vuelve a llamarse HBO Max. ¿Entendido?
Los ejecutivos de Warner Bros. Discovery han decidido regresar al nombre de HBO Max para el servicio de transmisión en continuo. Es el cuarto cambio de nombre de la aplicación en la última década.
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