Arts

The Unknown Ray Johnson Takes the Spotlight

The artist you meet in a small, revelatory show is quite different from the one known for mail art and…

Ernie Barnes Paints What It Feels Like to Move

The artist, who once played professional football, captured the anatomical and experiential details of bodies in motion in an expansive…

5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now

John Adams’s opera “Girls of the Golden West,” a recital program by Barbara Hannigan and a collection of Elgar symphonies…

‘Handling the Undead’ Review: When the Dead Don’t Die

A zombie movie is wrapped in a gentle tale of mourning and love.

17 New Books Coming in June

Fire Exit, by Morgan Talty In Talty’s novel, Charles — who was raised on a Penobscot reservation in Maine before…

Craig Johnson Wants to Give Longmire Fans the ‘Best 3 Minutes’ He Can

How do you organize your books? Like everything in my life, it’s kind of random. I’ve got reading stations all…

Congress Signed the Checks, but Artists Paid the Price

In “The Playbook,” James Shapiro offers a resonant history of the Federal Theater Project, a Depression-era program that gave work…

Audra McDonald to Star in ‘Gypsy’ Revival on Broadway This Fall

The six-time Tony-winning actress will play musical theater’s most famous stage mother in a production directed by George C. Wolfe.

No Sophomore Slump for ‘We Are Lady Parts’

The comedy about a Muslim punk band returns for a raucous encore.

‘MoviePass, MovieCrash’ Review: When They Take Your Company Away

An illuminating documentary about the ill-fated (though now-revived) subscription service finds an unexpected story.

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