Aipad’s Photography Show Grows Up
The fair has left the Park Avenue Armory, moved to Pier 94 on the Hudson and more than doubled in size.
Review: ‘13 Reasons Why’ She Killed Herself, Drawn Out on Netflix
The best-selling book heads to the small screen as a combination of thriller and melodrama.
Who Are Today’s Great Cultural Critics? (Are There Any?)
"Cultural criticism, we should remind ourselves, can be almost as important as the art itself, can indeed be part of the art. There have been great creative critics, from Alexander Pope (in The Dunciad, Epistle to Lord Burlington, etc) and Dr Johnson onwards, who combined the two arts with the skill of genius. Byron was another, in his English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Vision of Judgment, and parts of Don Juan. Can you name a great contemporary cultural critic? Someone who could, in writing about literature and other aspects of our culture, hold a candle to T. S. Eliot on poetry, or Herbert Read on modern art? I asked several highly knowledgeable people, who struggled to do so."
A Blockheaded Social Science Experiment. On Purpose.
The Tribeca Film Festival sent actors wearing mirrored cubes on their heads into the Village. Here’s what happened.
Critic’s Notebook: The Shift Festival: A Reincarnation, With Cherry Blossoms
A new presentation of American orchestras featured both traditional concerts and outside-the-box events.
A Long Tradition Of British Writers Collaborating In Pairs
"For more than 200 years, male British authors (usually poets, usually in pairs) have co-written or co-edited collections, anthologies or scholarly travel journals. It’s a tradition that is in surprisingly rude health, with recent examples and forthcoming festivities marking the 50th anniversary of a collaboration that sold shedloads."
That Decisive Moment: A Conductor’s Falsetto: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments
A phrase by Michelangelo, playing a paper and an unusual Passion were among the highlights.
NEWS: Liz Lerman Wins 2017 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award
Here’s A Problem: A Failure To Fail
"Learning resilience is fundamental to a successful career as a scientist. The experiments we try will fail many times before they work, whether as an undergraduate, a PhD student, or a postdoc gunning for a faculty position... But actually overcoming failure is challenging. Many students who began science degrees with me switched to other majors the first time a project failed. One failure and they were gone."
