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If NEA Funding Gets Cut, Say Goodbye to These Vital Community Cultural Projects

If NEA Funding Gets Cut, Say Goodbye to These Vital Community Cultural Projects If NEA Funding Gets Cut, Say Goodbye to These Vital Community Cultural Projects

From prison art therapy to tribal landmarks, art districts to agriculture-area artists, these programs make America richer.

Apr 7, 2017 / Michelle Chen

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Letters From the April 24/May 1, 2017, Issue Letters From the April 24/May 1, 2017, Issue

Hamilton!, the article (and a back-and-forth)… Small-town resistance… The Lone Star State sends its regards…

Apr 6, 2017 / Our Readers

dana schutz open casket

Dana Schutz’s Right to Make Art Dana Schutz’s Right to Make Art

The controversy over “Open Casket” forces us to reconsider whether an artist’s identity matters.

Apr 6, 2017 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Puzzle No. 3430 Puzzle No. 3430

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Where we constructed this puzzle, avoiding all the 22, and listening to choice cut (6)  4 Characters running west i…

Apr 6, 2017 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

GoldLink

GoldLink’s Local Sound GoldLink’s Local Sound

The DC rapper’s new album raises the question of what “place” in the pop-culture landscape even means anymore.

Apr 4, 2017 / Marcus J. Moore

Iron Fist

The Weakness of ‘Iron Fist’ The Weakness of ‘Iron Fist’

The latest addition to the Netflix/Marvel cinematic universe is like a bag full of brown M&Ms.

Mar 31, 2017 / Loren A. Lynch

Puzzle No. 3429

Puzzle No. 3429 Puzzle No. 3429

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Implausible ability leads to a practice: beginning to embroider footwear (10)  6 Principal curve (4)  9 Ecstatic ha…

Mar 30, 2017 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

Terence Davies’s Counter-Séance

Terence Davies’s Counter-Séance Terence Davies’s Counter-Séance

A Quiet Passion doesn’t pretend to recall the skeptical spirit of Emily Dickinson to the land of the living but rather projects you into her departed world.

Mar 28, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

Norman Podhoretz

What ‘The New York Times’ Missed in Its Piece about Norman Podhoretz What ‘The New York Times’ Missed in Its Piece about Norman Podhoretz

The profile failed to mention the larger historical context in which the former Commentary editor and his contemporaries operated.

Mar 27, 2017 / Norman Birnbaum

Puzzle No. 3428

Puzzle No. 3428 Puzzle No. 3428

Click HERE to download a printable PDF of this puzzle. ACROSS  1 Losing face and turning around: psychological problems for a children’s doctor? (5)  4 Australian native to evade l…

Mar 23, 2017 / Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto

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