Arts & Culture
A downtown theater season built on revivals and risk
Filings, hearing transcripts and internal projections reviewed by our culture desk, with the neighborhood detail the summaries leave out.
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Arts & Culture
Stages, galleries, pages and streets — criticism and reporting on the city's cultural life.
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The Met reinstalls its modern wing, and the argument resumes
Support does not follow the usual borough lines. It follows density, transit and the age of the housing stock.
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Independent bookstores post their best year in a decade
A reported account from the culture desk, with the three near-term signals worth watching before the next hearing.
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Brooklyn's music venues negotiate a new noise regime
The numbers are modest and the second-order effects are not. What the record shows, and what the people affected say about it.
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A public art commission opens the waterfront to sculpture
Support does not follow the usual borough lines. It follows density, transit and the age of the housing stock.
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Dance companies rebuild audiences with shorter seasons
A reported account from the culture desk, with the three near-term signals worth watching before the next hearing.
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Museum labor contracts change how exhibitions get made
A reported account from the culture desk, with the three near-term signals worth watching before the next hearing.
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Poetry finds a broadcast audience on city radio
Our culture desk traced the money, the timeline and the assumptions behind the announcement — including the one that may not hold.
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Film archives digitize 40,000 reels of city footage
The numbers are modest and the second-order effects are not. What the record shows, and what the people affected say about it.
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Off-Broadway pricing experiments draw younger crowds
Filings, hearing transcripts and internal projections reviewed by our culture desk, with the neighborhood detail the summaries leave out.
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Photography survey reconsiders the city's 1970s image
The numbers are modest and the second-order effects are not. What the record shows, and what the people affected say about it.
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Opera commissions turn to living composers, and to Queens
Filings, hearing transcripts and internal projections reviewed by our culture desk, with the neighborhood detail the summaries leave out.
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Street muralists win legal protections for finished work
Support does not follow the usual borough lines. It follows density, transit and the age of the housing stock.
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Jazz clubs return to Harlem's historic blocks
The numbers are modest and the second-order effects are not. What the record shows, and what the people affected say about it.
Arts & Culture
Libraries become the city's largest exhibition network
Filings, hearing transcripts and internal projections reviewed by our culture desk, with the neighborhood detail the summaries leave out.