Arts

Highlights

    1. Critic’s Notebook

      At SFMOMA, Disability Artwork Makes History

      After 50 years, Creative Growth in Oakland celebrates as its artists enter the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s collection.

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      At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, “Creative Growth: The House That Art Built,” a mannequin wears an untitled piece by William Scott from 2020 (acrylic paint on suit jacket and pants). Right, a wall-size photo of Creative Growth artists and staff members.
      At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, “Creative Growth: The House That Art Built,” a mannequin wears an untitled piece by William Scott from 2020 (acrylic paint on suit jacket and pants). Right, a wall-size photo of Creative Growth artists and staff members.
      CreditDon Ross, via San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  1. Security Guard Injured in Shooting Outside Drake’s Home in Toronto

    The police said that they did not know whether the shooting was related to the recent exchange of increasingly personal diss tracks traded between Drake and Kendrick Lamar.

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    The police are investigating a shooting near Drake’s home in Toronto.
    CreditPrince Williams/WireImage, via Getty Images
  2. What Does ‘Post-Emerging’ Look Like in Today’s Dance Landscape?

    Fresh Tracks, at New York Live Arts, showcases early-career dance makers. This year’s talented crop wonders about next steps.

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    This years’s Fresh Track participants, clockwise from top left: Vinson Fraley, Symara Sarai, Liony Garcia and Julia Antinozzi.
    CreditLanna Apisukh for The New York Times
  3. Robert Downey Jr. to Make Broadway Debut in Ayad Akhtar Play

    The Oscar-winning actor will star as an A.I.-curious author in “McNeal,” starting performances in September at Lincoln Center Theater.

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    “It’s been 40 years since I was last on ‘the boards,’” Robert Downey Jr. said of his return to the stage, “but hopefully I’ll knock the dust off quick.”
    CreditChris Delmas/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
  4. A Who’s Who of L.A.’s Art World Bids Farewell to a Champion

    Artists, collectors and Hollywood stars toasted the Hammer Museum’s outgoing director, Ann Philbin, who remade the institution during 25 years at the helm.

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    Ann Philbin, left, at her final gala as the director of the Hammer Museum, with Jane Fonda, center, and Jodie Foster.
    CreditMichelle Groskopf for The New York Times
  5. Madonna’s Hits-Filled Celebration Tour, Dissected

    Hear five standouts from the set, and six we wish she’d played.

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    The Amplifier
  1. Coming Soon to Little Island: An Arts Festival With Powerful Backers

    The mogul Barry Diller, who paid for the park, will finance a summer season of music, dance, theater and more, shaped in part by the Broadway producer Scott Rudin.

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    Little Island, the park on the Hudson River, will be the site of an annual, four-month-long performing arts festival. This summer’s edition will begin in June with a work by the choreographer Twyla Tharp.
    CreditAmr Alfiky/The New York Times
  2. ‘The Sympathizer’ Opens a Counteroffensive on Vietnam War Movies

    HBO’s series is not just a good story. It’s a sharp piece of film criticism.

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    Hoa Xuande plays a double agent in “The Sympathizer,” a black comedy that both resembles and critiques Vietnam War movies.
    CreditHopper Stone/HBO
    Critic’s notebook
  3. Eboni Booth on Winning the Drama Pulitzer for ‘Primary Trust’

    This play about a lonely, emotionally damaged man resonated with audiences returning to the theater after the pandemic.

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    William Jackson Harper, with Eric Berryman in the background, in Roundabout Theater Company’s 2023 production of “Primary Trust.”
    CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times
  4. Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake Beef Goes Nuclear: What to Know

    The two rappers had circled one another for more than a decade, but their attacks turned relentless and very personal in a slew of tracks released over the weekend.

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    Drake, left, and Kendrick Lamar.
    CreditPrince Williams/WireImage, Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press via Getty Images
  5. ‘They Are So Triggered by Me’: Conchita Wurst’s 10-Year Roller-Coaster Ride

    Since winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014, the bearded drag queen has been celebrated and condemned. For her creator, Tom Neuwirth, it has been a journey.

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    Conchita Wurst performing “Rise Like a Phoenix” during the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen in 2014.
    CreditFrank Augstein/Associated Press

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