When philanthropy and seva come naturally

LONDON: On a bitterly cold January evening...

BJP in need of new tribal leadership in Jharkhand

The BJP’s struggle in Jharkhand highlights the...

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Tom Brady became Tom Brady in 2007

In his first six seasons as the team’s starter, Brady had established a consistent baseline of success: about 300 completions at a 60% rate....

Why we love the bouffant

The bouffant is back! The hairstyle, known for its round shape, with hair swept off the face and shellacked into place with quite a bit...

Flamenco dancers who ‘move between genders’

“Where A dancer in a long red dress stands alone in the darkness, facing away from the audience. A keening voice rings out and...

Met Museum prepares for $100 million loss and closure till July

Looking at lost revenue, together with carrying costs, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of America’s strongest cultural institutions, estimates losses around $60 million...

Restaurants struggle to respond to coronavirus

Business is down by 20% across the US from a year ago, by 30% in New York City and by as much as 60%...

Fashion’s coronavirus ‘patient zero’ speaks

Just over a week ago, Michael Burke, the chief executive of Louis Vuitton, stood in the darkened space in Paris where his show —...

Writing a family memoir when your grandfather was Stalin’s bodyguard

Halberstadt recalls travelling from New York to Ukraine in 2004, to meet his grandfather who survived countless purges to live into his 90s, writes...

It’s not the music. It’s not the lyrics. It’s the drama

“Where you going?” a man asks the woman leaving his bed one morning — possibly expecting her to say, “to the bathroom.” Instead she says,...

Broadway, symbol of NY resilience, shuts down amid virus threat

Facing a widening coronavirus pandemic and new limitations on large gatherings, the industry said it was suspending all plays and musicals for 32 days,...

Eva Szekely dies at 92; survived holocaust to win Olympic gold

Eva Szekely, an Olympic champion swimmer and an athletic hero in her home country of Hungary, narrowly escaped being murdered by fascists before she...

Two pianists test the meaning of virtuosity

What constitutes virtuosity? It’s a commonplace, yet problematic, word in classical music. It generally refers to a performer’s technical prowess, the ability to dazzle with...

Charlie Hebdo massacre and a long road to recovery

Philippe Lançon, who was among the wounded in the terrorist attack, recounts the massacre and traces its aftermath in his life and in the...

‘Girl From the North Country’ Review: Bob Dylan’s Amazing Grace

A nation is broken. Life savings have vanished overnight. Home as a place you thought you would live forever no longer exists. People don’t...

When the show must go on, even amid a coronavirus outbreak

While the outbreak has taken a big toll on the arts world in terms of closed venues and cancelled events, it has also spurred...

At New York City Ballet, swans use grit to find glory

You don’t look at New York City Ballet and think to yourself: “Ah, swans.” Even though there are full-length ballets in its repertory, City...

How to buy wine: Five questions to ask

You don’t have to be an expert to drink well. But it helps to be honest with yourself about goals, taste and budget, and...

For Hilary Mantel, there’s no time like the past

Hilary Mantel has a recurring anxiety dream that takes place in a library. She finds a book with some scrap of historical information she’s...

Roger Federer to miss French Open after knee surgery

Roger Federer announced Thursday that he had undergone surgery on his right knee and would miss a series of tournaments, including the French Open...

The culinary couple who built a British empire

The young woman at the next table didn’t take off her shirt during the high-speed guitar riff of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain,” but it...

Pongo turns her struggles into pop

At an intimate recent gig to celebrate the release of a new EP, Angolan-Portuguese pop star Pongo punctured the air with karate-style kicks. Pongo high-kicks...

In Coal Country, memories from a mining tragedy live on

Six years after the explosion that killed 29 coal miners in West Virginia, family members and co-workers of the dead weren’t answering phone calls...

How Mexico’s muralists lit a fire under US artists

From floated proposal to finished product, “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945” at the Whitney Museum of American Art represents a decade...

Marc Jacobs and the Monumental Dream of New York

NEW YORK: With the last show on the last day of the New York collections, Marc Jacobs finally gave shape to what fashion —...

As virus tightens grip on China, the art world feels the squeeze

Movie theatres have closed, art fairs have been cancelled and orchestra performances called off as the coronavirus epidemic has curtailed travel and foot traffic...

The big takeaway from Australia: Men’s and women’s tennis are in very different places

MELBOURNE: Men’s and women’s tennis are in drastically different phases. The men have a triopoly that could quickly transform into a monopoly if Novak...

A tempest in a pizzeria spills out into the street

Trouble had come to Pizza Paradise. A police car sat outside 12 W. 18th St. on Monday. Two protesters paced the sidewalk, bearing saffron-yellow...

Fran Drescher, millennial whisperer

Fran Drescher’s voice, if you ever have the chance to hear it deployed in very close vicinity over shrimp tempura and spicy tuna sushi,...

We are still obsessed with Britney Spears

Welcome to a Britney Spears fantasy land: the Britney of the past, the Britney we want her to be. Britney Spears the Zone, a 30,000-square-foot...

Alice Mayhew, editor of a who’s who of writers, dies at 87

Alice Mayhew, a widely admired editor who shepherded into print bestsellers by a veritable who’s who of writers—along the way popularising the Washington political...

A book so far ahead of its time, it took 87 years to find a publisher

Claude McKay’s novel Romance in Marseille deals with queer love, postcolonialism and the legacy of slavery. It also complicates ideas about the Harlem Renaissance,...

Up close, there’s more to the Ghent Altarpiece than the Lamb

 The massive work, created from 20 paintings on the front and back of 12 panels, is an astounding work of art. The show features...

Oscar’s most talented newcomer is 59-year-old Anotonio Banderas

Your Carpetbagger rarely plays favourites while covering the Oscar race, but when it comes to this year’s best-actor contender Antonio Banderas … well, who...

What Winter Jazzfest says about where the music is going in 2020

Like jazz itself, Winter Jazzfest is a big, inclusive idea that finds its glory and purpose in smaller moments. Since its founding 16 years ago,...

Reagan Arthur named publisher at Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf announced Thursday that Reagan Arthur is its new publisher, succeeding Sonny Mehta, who died at 77 in December after more than...

The Making of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Was as Far Out as the Movie

As it approaches its 52nd birthday, “2001: A Space Odyssey” remains one of the most inventive and enduring of all movies. But from the...

Upcoming exhibition focuses on global climate crisis

MASH Sculptural Space is showcasing the works of artists Rathin Barman and Anita Dube at the India Art Fair, NSIC Exhibition Grounds from 30...

Exploring emojis King Tut might have used

A chart at the entrance of Emoglyphs: Picture-Writing From Hieroglyphs to the Emoji exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem pairs a column of...

At Globalfest, Rowdy Sounds From Around the World

A shrinking world, a growing potential audience, an ever-shifting definition of authenticity and the insatiable curiosity of musicians: Globalfest, the annual New York showcase...

In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others—Including Himself

There are two voices in Serious Noticing, a recent collection of James Wood’s essays. One is the informed, professorial voice, while the other is...

Residence-turned-museum: A Jimi Hendrix experience in London

The months guitar pioneer Jimi Hendrix spent in London were pivotal in his meteoric rise. A new museum exhibit in London recreates one of...

India’s ‘pickle queen’ preserves everything, including the past

Usha Prabakaran was at home, talking on the phone with a college friend, when she stopped making sense. Her speech scrambled. Her vision blurred....

Aesthetics and efficiency: The coolest architecture on Earth is in Antarctica

Representatives from Brazil’s scientific community and government will head to Antarctica this month to inaugurate its new Comandante Ferraz Research Station, which replaces a...

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation author, is dead at 52

Her startling 1994 memoir opened a dialogue about clinical depression and helped introduce an unsparing style of confessional writing that remains influential. She died...

On this night, old Hollywood holds off new

In a night of major upsets, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” Quentin Tarantino’s ode to late 1960s-era Los Angeles, emerged as the...

Italian Vogue won’t publish photos this month

What is a fashion magazine without photo shoots? Without those glossy images of models, photographed in glamorous locales and produced by a small army...

Using his camera as a witness and weapon

Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam’s images are not conventional representations of suffering and resistance. He is trying to break through the clichés that have a...

Can recycled rags fix fashion’s waste problem?

Tucked away in the bowels of the Brooklyn Army Terminal is a 4,000-square-foot warehouse filled from wall to wall and floor to ceiling with...

Pop Music in 2019: An Escape From Isolation?

Music conjures spaces: churches, theaters, roadhouses, arenas, pubs, dance halls, living rooms, festival tents, and all sorts of clubs, from tenement basements to cabarets...

In Gory, Majestic Fiction, a Hard Look at the Holocaust’s Stubborn Silences

Croatian writer Dasa Drndic is often described as a blend of Beckett, W.G. Sebald and Thomas Bernhard. But these comparisons don’t throw any light...

Facebook discovers fakes that show evolution of disinformation

AI could be used to create wide-scale disinformation campaigns has long been a fear of computer scientists.   Facebook said Friday that it had removed hundreds...

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