02/08/2020. The contrast between the 17th-century old master and 21st-century disrupter couldn’t have been more extreme. To the left, Rembrandt’s broodingly introspective “Self-Portrait With a Red Beret.” To the right, behind a protective ...

09/08/2021. A new Champions League season 2021/22 has officially begun. The race for Europe's most prestigious trophy has started. Asian readers can safely search and choose new bets at Thabet to know the best...

11/02/2021. The survival of the Grand Ole Opry was anything but guaranteed when Bill Anderson started performing in it six decades ago. Rock ’n’ roll was luring away fans. Radio stations were abandoning barn dance-style programs. There were nights, he ...

12/11/2021. It was deep into Julie Taymor’s playful production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” at the Metropolitan Opera. Darkness had fallen onstage; the hero, Prince Tamino, and Papageno, the cheeky bird catcher, were lost. “Papageno,...

12/18/2021. Last month, an audience of about 100 sat around the thrust stage of the Westcoast Black Theater Troupe’s 205-seat theater. It wasn’t a bad turnout for a weekday, especially since many of this city’s culture-loving snowbirds had yet to ...

12/19/2021. Henry Orenstein, a Holocaust survivor who built a major American toy company, later persuaded Hasbro to start its line of Transformers action figures and who in his 70s patented an ingenious way to better televise poker tournaments, died Tuesday at a...

12/25/2021. Franklin A. Thomas, who rose from working-class Brooklyn to become, as president of the Ford Foundation, the first Black person to run a major American philanthropic organization, died Wednesday night at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. Darren Wa...

01/18/2022. The reopening of Broadway last summer, after the longest shutdown in history, provided a jolt of energy to a city ready for a rebound: Bruce Springsteen and block parties, eager audiences and enthusiastic actors. But the omicron variant of the cor...

02/06/2022. David Gordon, a venerable, award-winning choreographer and director who was a founding member of the 1960s experimental collective Judson Dance Theater, died Jan. 29 at his home in the New York City borough of Manhattan. He was 85. His son, Ain Go...

01/10/2023. An arc of gleaming black granite slabs etched with 36,634 names was unveiled on the National Mall over the summer, built to honor American service members who died fighting in the Korean War. People like Frederick Bald Eagle Bear, an Army corporal...

03/18/2023. When Kehinde Wiley’s exhibition, “An Archaeology of Silence,” opens in the United States on March 18, the most important room some viewers might enter is one with no artwork at all. The “respite room” at the de Young Museu...

06/10/2023. What do you get when you toss together a brassy grifter, an Elvish-speaking anagrammist, a show choir and, oh yes, a teenager with a life-threatening genetic condition? This year, it seems, you get a Tony-winning musical. “Kimberly Akimbo,
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01/29/2024. A nondescript locker in a lower Manhattan storage center is a portal to a New York City still plagued by crack, AIDS and rampant crime. A drug user squats for a fix in a squalid Manhattan heroin den. A man wearing a Savage Riders biker gang jacket...

05/12/2024. On a recent Sunday, Lauren Groff got out of bed at 3 in the morning, jolted by a mix of anxiety and adrenaline. It was opening day for the Lynx, Groff’s new bookstore in Gainesville, Florida, and her mind raced with all that could go wrong. S...

05/30/2024. One overcast Sunday morning, Benjamin Talley Smith, an apple-cheeked 45-year-old with a thing for a Canadian tuxedo, was at the Rose Bowl flea market in Los Angeles shopping for jeans. He was wearing jeans — a beat-up pair of Levi’s and ...