Arts

These highlights drew the big crowds in the early days, from a sonorous symphony made by fruit, to an underwater spectacle to a modern-day Tintoretto.These highlights drew the big crowds in the early days, from a sonorous symphony made by fruit, to an underwater spectacle to a modern-day Tintoretto. Read More

The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.”The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.” Read More

Guy Ritchie’s latest is the platonic ideal of an airplane movie, which is not exactly a good thing.Guy Ritchie’s latest is the platonic ideal of an airplane movie, which is not exactly a good thing. Read More

The musical traces the story of Black twin sisters who pass as white, and exact their own form of justice for the crime of slavery, in 19th-century Texas.The musical traces the story of Black twin sisters who pass as white, and exact their own form of justice for the crime of slavery, in 19th-century Texas. Read

Almost 50 years after it debuted, this classic Black take on “The Wizard of Oz” tries to update its original formula.Almost 50 years after it debuted, this classic Black take on “The Wizard of Oz” tries to update its original formula. Read More

A new Apple TV+ series dramatizes the years Benjamin Franklin spent in France, leveraging diplomacy and guile to secure his nascent country’s future.A new Apple TV+ series dramatizes the years Benjamin Franklin spent in France, leveraging diplomacy and guile to secure his nascent country’s future. Read More

Nadia Boulanger’s “La Ville Morte” was repeatedly thwarted by death and World War I, then nearly lost. Finally, it is having its American premiere.Nadia Boulanger’s “La Ville Morte” was repeatedly thwarted by death and World War I, then nearly lost. Finally, it is having its American premiere. Read More

This sequence of 63 bravura antiwar drawings hasn’t been shown in nearly seven decades but they’re up again now, thanks to Art Spiegelman.This sequence of 63 bravura antiwar drawings hasn’t been shown in nearly seven decades but they’re up again now, thanks to Art Spiegelman. Read More

Melissa Cody mastered a weaving tradition dating back millenniums, but her eye-dazzling patterns joyously venture beyond it.Melissa Cody mastered a weaving tradition dating back millenniums, but her eye-dazzling patterns joyously venture beyond it. Read More

In this cheerfully unambitious vampire movie, a bloodsucker is shut up in an old mansion with some nitwit criminals. Will there will be gore? You bet.In this cheerfully unambitious vampire movie, a bloodsucker is shut up in an old mansion with some nitwit criminals. Will there will be gore? You bet. Read More