Critic’s Notebook: Money, Ethics, Art: Can Museums Police Themselves?
Too expensive to be self-sustaining, museums rely on collectors’ fortunes and corporate money. Now that money is being put under a microscope.
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in her words: How Larry Nassar ‘Flourished Unafraid’ for So Long
A new HBO documentary explores the rise and fall of the disgraced Olympic doctor and the institutions that gave him access to girls.
Museums Cut Ties With Sacklers as Outrage Over Opioid Crisis Grows
Accusations that the family behind OxyContin actively played down its perils have led arts and education institutions to rethink accepting Sackler funds.
MoMA to Close, Then Open Doors to More Expansive View of Art
Don’t plan to visit MoMA this summer. It’s closing for renovations that will put a new focus on work by women and artists of color. The results will shake up every gallery.
Nonfiction: The Utopian Quest to Link the United States and Latin America
Eric Rutkow’s “The Longest Line on the Map” recounts the repeated efforts to build a Pan-American highway.
Alabama Shakespeare Festival Aims to Update Southern Canon
The company will commission 22 plays, with more than half set to go to female playwrights and playwrights of color, its artistic director said.
Profile: Liane Moriarty’s Hollywood Angst: It’s Complicated
The author of “Big Little Lies” has a new novel set in a wellness retreat with a group of strangers seeking escape and transformation.
Books News: Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read?
Dutton, a Penguin Random House imprint, has just released its first batch of mini books, with a box set of novels by the best-selling author John Green.
Nonfiction: The American Past: A History of Contradictions
Jill Lepore’s “These Truths” shows both the successes and failures that have made the country what it is today.
