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The Visual Power of Black Rest

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “When the psychohistory of a people is marked by ongoing loss, when entire histories are denied, hidden, erased, documentation can become an obsession,” bell hooks writes in her book “Art on…

When the World Is Full of Noise

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Why Are We So Bad at Getting Better?

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Four and a half years ago, in the heat of an N.B.A. playoff game against the Houston Rockets, Kevin Durant, the superstar forward of the Golden State Warriors, dodged a defender,…

Ballet Abounds at the Dance Reflections Festival

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Rachel SymeStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. A few…

Nanci Griffith’s Lone Star State of Mind

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Texas-born singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith’s voice is an “acquired taste,” as one critic put it after Griffith’s death two years ago, at the age of sixty-eight. To me, Griffith’s idiosyncratic sound—coquettishly…