Culture
Agnes Gund’s Art for Social Justice’s Sake
By selling Roy Lichtenstein’s “Masterpiece,” the collector has been able to establish a fund dedicated to relieving mass incarceration in the U.S.
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Toscanini’s Greatest Recorded Performances
An annotated playlist of Arturo Toscanini’s greatest recordings, in honor of his hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Carolyn Drake’s Haunted Photographs of America’s Borderlands
Post-Inauguration, the photographer focussed on the U.S.-Mexico border. “I felt I could see America better from a little north of the border,” she says.
The Bootlegger, the Wiretap, and the Beginning of Privacy
How a Prohibition-era rum-runner ended up at the center of America’s evolving conception of Fourth Amendment rights.
The Front Row: “Born in Flames”
Lizzie Borden’s film “Born in Flames,” from 1983, is a vision of necessary social change that remains as current now as it was at the time it was made.
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“Assassins”: Vaudeville of Political Bloodlust
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s musical draws out what’s scary and silly about America’s armed malcontents.
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Three Shows About Death
“Marvin’s Room,” “1984,” and “Seeing You” all feature dying as an imminent possibility or reality, but each handles it differently.
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