Arts
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‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ Review: She’s Growing Up
Sandler family members (plus Idina Menzel) lean on each other in this Netflix comedy about growing up.
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British Museum Director Resigns After Worker Fired for Theft
Hartwig Fischer, who had led the museum since 2016, said that the museum’s failure to respond to earlier warnings “must…
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For Some Culture Executives, a Housing Perk Is Rolled Back
For years the Metropolitan Museum of Art housed its directors in a $5 million apartment on Fifth Avenue, where they…
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In Kentucky, a Maestro of the People
Teddy Abrams, the 36-year-old music director of the Louisville Orchestra, has embedded himself in his community, breaking the mold of…
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Before Gran Turismo Inspired a Movie, It Drove a Teenager to Greatness
The PlayStation video game’s realistic cars and racetracks helped Jann Mardenborough find his calling as a professional driver.
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What Can Literature Teach Us About Forgiveness?
“How I’m gon keep from killing him,” says Celie, the protagonist of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel “The Color…
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The Book That Made R.J. Palacio Cry on the Subway
What books are on your night stand? “We, the Drowned,” by Carsten Jensen; “The Betrothed,” by Alessandro Manzoni; “Utopia for…
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Flying High at the Beach: Birds, Dancers, Michelson and Merce
With outstretched arms, dancers skimmed across the sand like gliding birds, soundless against the pressing wind and somehow soaring without…
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To Seize the Fleeting: Making Clarice Lispector Dance
They’ve been at it for hours. Jodi Melnick and Maya Lee-Parritz, both dancers, both choreographers, are in an airy dance…
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‘BS High’ Review: Greed and Football
A saga of high school football players taken advantage of by a dubious start-up is played for entertainment in this…
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