A contemporary of Leeuwenhoek’s, Jan Swammerdam, showed that butterflies, which had been regarded as new creatures born out of the pupa, were already present within the caterpillar: their organs could be identified by dissection. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Confusingly, the other great Roman text to survive is Ad Herennium—which was roughly contemporary with Cicero, and was for centuries wrongly attributed to him. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Boubacar had often invited her to visit his class, a seminar on contemporary African issues. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As a result, there existed an unspoken yet real fear of Crick, especially among his contemporaries who had yet to establish their reputations. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

In this he acted like his contemporaries and no one noticed anything out of the ordinary except Sourmelina. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This is the same sense of ‘modern’ which underlies Butterfield’s title The Origins of Modern Science, and reflects a usage established by the contemporaries of Newton. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Geneticists were able to collect enough intact Neanderthal DNA from fossils to make a broad comparison between it and the DNA of contemporary humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made themselves pay polite attention to the older art, though they both agreed they were more interested in the odd contemporary rooms. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Magnífico and Gerineldo, contemporaries of Aureliano but more skilled in the ways of the world, drank methodically with the women seated on their laps. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

This contemporary lithograph lampoons the panicked gentry who fled the city - and thus turned Handel’s new oratorio, Theodora, into a box-office flop. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One last thing: Hiram, my editor, felt the Miracle Max section was too Jewish in sound, too contemporary. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Luther accordingly had collected numerous popular contemporary folk tunes, given them holy words, and encouraged these hymns, or chorales, to be sung in Lutheran churches. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This map does not depict it accurately, because these societies were not contemporaries—the Olmec vanished centuries before the Nudzahui and Zapotec began to reach their height, for example. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Nearer the gods no mortal may approach," wrote Halley in a sentiment that was endlessly echoed by his contemporaries and by many others since. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

If patent rights, capitalism, and certain religions do promote technology, what selected for those factors in postmedieval Europe but not in contemporary China or India? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the thrill of opening night on Broadway with my favorite musicomedy stars. Gab sessions in the Village over espresso with challenging, contemporary minds.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I saw no sign of contemporary life; St. Louis, just across the river, had not yet switched on its lights. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Thus it is important to see that when we hail Theodoric as an important scientist our judgement is essentially anachronistic: he did not seem important to his contemporaries or successors, and his influence is negligible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Henry Kissinger, a contemporary politician, wrote: “Deterrence depends, above all, on psychological criteria. For purposes of deterrence, a bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traditional histories like to equate Beethoven, the colossus of music in the early 1800s, with his contemporary Napoleon Bonaparte, revolutionary-turned-Emperor and serial military adventurer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In 1930, Haile Selassie became emperor and the shaping force of contemporary Ethiopian history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On written lessons she cracked such questions as ‘Name eight famous contemporaries of Doctor Johnson,’ and ‘Quote ten lines from “The Vicar of Wakefield.’” The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Their lives were similar enough to contemporary hunter-gatherers that perhaps they should now be simply called Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I knew that the results I obtained were not easily compatible with our contemporary science,” Mendel wrote, and “an isolated experiment might be doubly dangerous.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Luckily for his great contemporary George Frideric Handel, opera was his thing - to start with, at least. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Having come to Berkeley at the age of twenty-five, he was the other researchers’ contemporary, yet he struck them as older, more restless. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Beethoven and his contemporaries even made the natural world an extension of their feelings. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was a practical and effective school of medicine, which Hippocrates insisted had to be based on the contemporary equivalent of physics and chemistry.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, various contemporaries of Newton had raised the problem, and the Olbers article was not even the first to contain plausible arguments against it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As recalled by one of his contemporaries, Isbel was “content with the reflected greatness which shone on the blade of his razor and now settled on him.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For years I'd wanted to implement a project to change the way we talk about racial history and contextualize contemporary race issues. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This tally of instruments, occasionally beefed up by timpani and trumpets, was the template for the classical orchestra as used by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and their contemporaries. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The fact that the ‘new’ was narrowly defined as ‘contemporary classical’ rather than, say, bebop is indicative of this. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This is the genuinely decisive technology of modern medicine, exemplified best by modern methods for immunization against diphtheria, pertussis, and the childhood virus diseases, and the contemporary use of antibiotics and chemotherapy for bacterial infections. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We know from a contemporary source that Chardin painted the youth “carefully from life and...tried hard to give him an ingenuous air.” History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

To appreciate the full impact of this on Tycho and his contemporaries, you have to remember that at that time stars were regarded as fixed, eternal and unchanging lights attached to a crystal sphere. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

One of his envious contemporaries called him “Beta,” the second letter of the Greek alphabet, because, he said, Eratosthenes was second best in the world in everything. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In contemporary hunting and gathering societies, anthropologists have learned, gathering by women usually supplies most of the daily diet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Like contemporary astrologers, the Olmec, Maya, and Zapotec believed that celestial phenomena like the phases of the moon and Venus affect daily life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A notch below six feet four and slightly above two hundred pounds, he was a full head taller than his male contemporaries. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Because rising sea levels continually flooded the shore, marshy Cape Cod did not fully lock into its contemporary configuration until about 1000 B.C. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Out of 125 papyri recording contemporary legal cases, fully 20 percent involve personal squabbles between individual Greeks and Egyptians. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Mathematicians in India first used zero in its contemporary sense—a number, not a placeholder—sometime in the first few centuries a.d. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The money also meant that Boyle could, unlike many of his contemporaries, get his own books published at his own expense, ensuring that they appeared promptly, in properly printed editions. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The plaid suits with large collars, the bushy mustaches and overdue haircuts, and the thick knotted ties were all obviously stylish back when he went to Oxford but looked a little funny through contemporary eyes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Within the next two decades or so, most of his educated contemporaries gradually came to the same conclusion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His face is spotted with what his contemporaries believed to be leprosy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s grown people who always believe the worst, she thought, confident that her contemporaries believed no more nor less than what Jem and Hank had circulated. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The great contemporary achievement of modern medicine is the technology for controlling and preventing bacterial infection, but this did not fall into our laps with the appearance of penicillin and the sulfonamides. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these developments were succinctly summarized in a book by Dr. Posner, the contemporary legend from the University of Oregon. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Why instead did the West slumber through a thousand years of darkness until Columbus and Copernicus and their contemporaries rediscovered the work done in Alexandria? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason that Gassendi and a good many of his contemporaries were willing to accept the idea of a vacuum in the 1640s was that there was experimental evidence that ‘the void’ existed. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was truly the first musical radical, referred to in a contemporary record as 'Perotin the Master’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Jomon Japan was a conservative miniature universe that maintained its isolation and changed surprisingly little over the course of 10,000 years—an island of stability in a fragile, rapidly changing contemporary world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“First thing I did was brush up on all the contemporary music. It’s so exciting, all the new music.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Inka history above is as contemporary scholars understand it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It made it easier to lure Christians and Muslims onto the aliens’ dinner plates, but it also upset a lot of contemporary readers here on the planet of humans and dogs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The more contemporary term is recombination—the ability to generate combinations of combinations of genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

If that is the case, the lineages of all contemporary humans can be traced back, exclusively, to East Africa, 70,000 years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such scenarios resonate with contemporary ecological fears, helping to make them popular outside the academy. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One of Alfred’s cousins and contemporaries, Henry Stimson, would distinguish himself in public service with one stint as secretary of state and two as secretary of war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Most of his contemporaries didn't know what to make of these late quartets. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Lecture cds for learning sequences in music: A contemporary music learning theory. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

One must go to contemporary observers in Europe for a non-Texan opinion as to the nature of the tyranny that raised need for revolt. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, we now know that Liszt and his contemporaries were quite wrong about the provenance of what they called ‘gypsy’ music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Regiomontanus’s praise of the mathematical sciences did not, however, imply uncritical admiration for contemporary mathematicians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I was there—on the very rim of our age— when my mother’s cataclysmic intemperance, as you well know, catapulted me into the fever of contemporary existence. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Englishman was John Dowland, a Londoner and exact contemporary of Shakespeare who spent some of his most fruitfully creative years as the extravagandy paid official lutenist to King Christian IV of Denmark. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The merits of line versus color have been the subject of a debate that first arose between partisans of Michelangelo and Titian, his great contemporary in Venice. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the idea of one of his most brilliant contemporaries, Paul Simon, with his knowingly entitled 1973 hit ‘American Tune’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

From books, the Spaniards knew of many contemporary civilizations remote from Europe, and about several thousand years of European history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As one contemporary put it, he left two trails from Maine to Georgia: “One was of hurt feelings and bruised egos. The other was the AT.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She longed to see a most beautiful statue of the goddess of Argos, made by the great sculptor Polyclitus the Elder, who was said to be as great as his younger contemporary, Phidias. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been very good, and he had learned a lot from them about the problems of contemporary Judaism. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She engaged in disputes that annoyed the local nobility, and she sold soporific and perhaps hallucinogenic drugs as do contemporary Mexican curanderas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to contemporary reports, some female fans became ‘hysterical’ at the mere sight of him on stage. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One of his contemporaries at Oxford, a man with a keen interest in science, was Christopher Wren, three years older than Hooke and another product of Westminster School. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

A contemporary philosopher has distinguished between three sorts of facts: brute facts, language-dependent facts and institutional facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was arena-style seating and a rock band jamming out with the latest Christian contemporary pop. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

All along he’s been learning from masters and now from his contemporaries. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Which seems to me, when I look about at my contemporary scene, no exorbitant gift from nature or circumstance to demand “Will you wait?” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither the Indians nor the Pilgrims had our contemporary under standing of infectious disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Back then, these grandmasters commanded as much prestige in Soviet society as a movie star or an Olympic athlete does in contemporary America. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There are many aspects of the movement that must have seemed strange to contemporary audiences. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare used the word ‘modern’ to mean both ‘ordinary’ and ‘contemporary’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He read classical authors as if they were his contemporaries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Although those Africans of 100,000 years ago had more modern skeletons than did their Neanderthal contemporaries, they made essentially the same crude stone tools as Neanderthals, still lacking standardized shapes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the period’s architects designed buildings from the same limited collection of motifs and shapes, Haydn and his contemporaries were designing music from a similarly limited catalogue. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The clays of the primitive Earth may have been the forge of life, and the chemistry of contemporary Mars may provide essential clues to the origin and early history of life on our planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilkes believes that some or all of these difficulties may be resolved by reproducing features of the milpa in a contemporary setting. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A contemporary witticism recalled by Brobeck told the story more succinctly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

What his sons and their contemporaries undertook, instead, was a massive spring clean of musical style and a project to celebrate not earnestness but wit, not inventiveness but elegance, not piety but beauty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His contemporaries thought him “stand-offish,” yet forgave him, saying, “Oh, Kenyon. It’s just that he lives in a world of his own.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked positively offended at the Olmec failure to see the world in the same way as a contemporary European engineer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even though some aspects of the country were more liberal in the 1970s, arranged marriages were actually more commonplace than they are in contemporary Iran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

According to contemporary history and philosophy of science, there are no such things as killer facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Aeschylus, the oldest of the three tragic poets, was a contemporary of Pindar’s. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Negroes, it seems, preferred more contemporary music and turned up their transistor radios loudly and defiantly whenever Myma began one of her lugubrious dirges. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he died, his funeral was attended, in the words of one contemporary newspaper account, by “troops of people.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Israel Museum, largest in the country, displayed archaeological wonders and contemporary art. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

What was in retrospect the most serious contemporary challenge to Lowell’s ideas came from an unlikely source. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young Cicero was a shrimp and dweeb, confessing that he wrote poetry in the hours his contemporaries dedicated to “parties and gambling and ball games. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The buildings, particularly the ones for the prison staff, were clean and contemporary; but the housing for the prisoners was archaic and dirty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest boy in Miss Blunt’s sixth grade was nearly nineteen, and he had three contemporaries. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They and their Neanderthal contemporaries still rank as less than fully human. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This would certainly have presented difficulties for the theory of the celestial spheres, and was regarded by contemporaries as being closer to the Tychonic than the Ptolemaic system. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the nineteenth century it was claimed, in all seriousness, that Columbus’s contemporaries thought the world was flat and expected him to sail over the edge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Learning sequences in music: A contemporary music learning theory. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Learning sequences in music: A contemporary music learning theory. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And in it all was his own father, the second Macon Dead, their contemporary, who was strong as an ox, could ride bareback and barefoot, who, they agreed, outran, outplowed, outshot, outpicked, outrode them all. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Striking to the contemporary eye, the 117 codicils of the Great Law were concerned as much with establishing the limits on the great council’s powers as on granting them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Although his philosophies are over 200 years old, you may recognize his ideas as sounding quite contemporary. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

According to contemporary sources, the severed head is a self-portrait, but although we may doubt the identification, this disturbing image communicates a tragic vision that was soon fulfilled. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There have been endless attempts to reconstruct exactly what Brunelleschi did, and why, for contemporaries were clear that this little object represented the birth of perspective painting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In contemporary Western society, buying a magazine on astrology—at a newsstand, say—is easy; it is much harder to find one on astronomy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most had religions that focused on human sacrifice, dark by contemporary standards, but their economic and scientific accomplishments were bright. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Does, as Hall assumed, the new science have to be contemporary with the technology that derives from it? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He read contemporary American fiction, because he hoped to find a resonance, a shaping of his longings, a sense of the America that he had imagined himself a part of. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare, perfectly sensibly, imagined ancient Rome as just like contemporary London but with sunshine and togas. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As you can see, it includes queens and kings and pharaohs from centuries past, as well as contemporary billionaires, such as Warren Buffett and Carlos Slim. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

An even more radical rejection of complexity can be heard in the piano miniatures of Erik Satie, Faure’s eccentric, half-English contemporary. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Although few cartographic corporations acknowledge their existence, copyright traps remain a common feature even in contemporary maps. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The college was too small to accept this act of defiance against the abyss of contemporary academia.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like their contemporaries in Greece, the Han Chinese saw virtue in the relationship between musical pitch in music - the relative distance between notes - and the arrangement of the stars and planets they observed above them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Yet the genteel detachment of Pasteur and his contemporaries seemed quaint, even foolish, given the profits to be made in the industrial world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Despite his promotion of Fischer Random and his rejection of and scorn for the “old chess,” he still played over games, tempted by the action of contemporary tournaments and matches. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were better read and better bred than most of their contemporaries. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas the buildings of Sumer and Assyria were covered with brilliant mosaics and splendid pictorial murals, the Inka style was severe, abstract, stripped down to geometric forms—startlingly contemporary, in fact. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Conversely, the same invention’s reception also varies greatly among contemporary societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although the majority of professional musicians were men, contemporary paintings show that a huge number of amateur musicians were women. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His contemporaries are divided on the question, and his own notes are contradictory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

‘Grave and worthy Writers’ trumped his own experience and that of his contemporaries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This theme of the body as a machine was developed in the seventeenth century by another Italian, Giovanni Borelli, who was an older contemporary and friend of Malpighi. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Bruckner aside, most of Wagner’s contemporaries, while quick to assert his musical brilliance, were as at sea with the whole Wagner-and-the-future-of-all-art project as they were with the cultural agendas of his dramas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She left Pel several contemporary novels—literature discussions had been one of their bonds—and they promised to write each other. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The art establishment also objects to “the new painting” for what the artists paint: contemporary subjects such as train stations, cafes, bridges. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The professor agreed it would be a good, contemporary end to their studies. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It might have looked in hideous meditation from Notre Dame, his contemporary church. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his wife, Virginia, had just built a four-bedroom contemporary home, complete with a swimming pool, on Cedar Gap Ridge. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

These discords, though relatively tame by modern standards, would have sounded shocking to Monteverdi's contemporaries. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The few preserved African skeletal fragments contemporary with the Neanderthals are more similar to our modern skeletons than to Neanderthal skeletons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For this aspect of their troubled genius Beethoven and his contemporaries had two irresistible fictional role models: Faust and Prometheus. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He and his contemporaries had no reason to believe in progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As we stared at the markups on the wall, admiring the work of some of our contemporaries, Shea reached over his shoulder, pulled the backpack in front of him, and slowly unzipped it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And if not, to what extent are contemporary American conflicts over race the playing out, at least in part, of a cultural divide that came into being hundreds of years before Columbus? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had a reputation for being formidably intelligent, and in those days one often tended to hear of how she had humiliated this or that learned gentleman at dinner over some important contemporary issue. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, Vergil makes no mention of the contemporary voyages of discovery, although he went on revising his text until 1553. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For his part, Verdi spoke nothing but praise about his acid- tongued contemporary, writing that Tristan und Isolde was ‘one of the finest creations that has ever issued from a human mind’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Two parents, contemporary pop and contemporary classical, gave birth to a child that was a perfect mix of them both. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They bought a contemporary Cape house with dormer windows, with a lot of land around it, meadow and forest, where the dogs could run and the children could play. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

William Gilbert is the name that he has become known by in the history books, although the preferred contemporary spelling used by his own family was Gilberd. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It could be a contemporary, vital, real document of a young man’s problems. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the standards of their parents and grandparents, and compared to many of their contemporaries, they had reached the mountaintop. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He wrote to friends and colleagues saying, “Someone should coin a contemporary phrase and say, at least for the moment, ‘The world has gone nuts over tissue culture and its possibilities.’ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For the infinite had already begun to gnaw at the roots of Western thought, thanks to Zeno of Elea, a philosopher reckoned by his contemporaries to be the most annoying man in the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It is impossible for contemporary Americans to fully comprehend what it meant to live under a system in which some individuals had absolute power over others. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Compared to the clockwork finesse and gentle charm of Corelli, Vivaldi introduced a sense of drama and virtuosity that took his contemporaries’ breath away. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Just as the greatest plays of Aeschylus, in the fifth century, are about Atreus’ descendants, so the greatest plays of his contemporary Sophocles are about Oedipus and his children. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The equality granted to women was not the kind envisioned by contemporary Western feminists—men and women were not treated as equivalent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Not even the chronology is described in conventional language: the century is an aging person, a contemporary of the story’s protagonists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It sparked a lively exchange of ideas and tunes between countries, but also between contemporary church music and its secular counterpart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Just as we might call Dunstaple’s contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer the father of English literature, so we should call John Dunstaple the father of the triad, and therefore of the Western harmonic system. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Kind Kit Marlowe,” a contemporary had called him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even the brilliant Archimedes occasionally scorned the infinite along with his contemporaries. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Hutterites, obviously, didn’t get this idea from contemporary evolutionary psychology. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one would lightly adopt such a name in contemporary Western society. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Your approach to history is so vital, so contemporary, so refreshingly unorthodox.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The formation of the Roman state and the expansion of the Macedonian Empire under Alexander were described in detail by contemporary classical authors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Were the Siriono like contemporary Italians living among the monuments of the Roman Empire? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It puzzled contemporaries just as it puzzles us. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So by 1611 the revolution was well under way, and Donne, unlike Shakespeare and most educated contemporaries, was fully aware of it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Following the implications of the Maya fall, he asked, 'Are contemporary societies any better at controlling the drive toward ever greater use of resources and heavier pressure on the environment? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Over time, the Meggers-Roosevelt dispute grew bitter and personal; inevitable in a contemporary academic context, it featured charges of colonialism, elitism, and membership in the CIA. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Above all, the music of this period was characterised - as were the contemporary sciences - by a powerful marriage of imagination and ambition. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If recent reappraisals of the pre-Columbian New World population are correct, it was not far below the contemporary population of Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were patronized by their married contemporaries, they were vaguely felt sorry for, and were produced to date any stray extra man who happened to be visiting their friends. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

No one followed Beethoven’s lead in reflecting emotion through nature more passionately than his near contemporary Franz Schubert, also based in Vienna. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That the sun was larger and more distant than the moon was generally accepted by most contemporary authorities. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Sophocles, Euripides’ contemporary, describes how the hero died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time, Barack and I would take steps in this direction, hanging more abstract art and works by African American artists on the walls, for example, and mixing contemporary furniture in with the antiques. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Some of the animal myths have the ring of contemporary biologic theory, if you allow for differences in jargon. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Learning sequences in music: A contemporary music learning theory. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, over in Italy, one of Dowland’s masterful contemporaries - one of the most influential musicians of all time - was taking the concept of song in the most extraordinary new direction. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

"There are no collecting institutions of contemporary art in Tijuana, so we want to be mindful of collecting those artists and showing them." Kathryn Kanjo named new director of Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

"The companies that are being cut are the ones that make Birmingham's cultural life unique – the kind of risky, contemporary, innovative companies that you need to keep the city forward-looking and dynamic," says Newbould. Birmingham cuts arts funding. Can audiences make up the difference? 2010-12-17T16:35:04Z

Few contemporary American or British novelists have had as much cultural impact over the past four decades as Anne Rice. Lestat returns: In her new novel, Anne Rice revives a much-loved vampire

But the lack of any other context, along with the contemporary Zoom-room aesthetics of most backdrops, underlines the sometimes uncanny sense that these historical figures are, in fact, appearing on television right now. The Sound in Their Ears? Black Thinkers Sharing ‘Lessons in Survival’ 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

The urban contemporary graphics and innovation made it a new and invigorating experience – especially the techno take on the temple scene – genius. Twelfth Night and Jesus Christ Superstar – reader reviews 2012-09-28T14:43:44Z

But the piece’s contemporary relevance extends beyond the timelessness of the story. How Next Wave Is It? Joseph V. Melillo Picks His Kind of Show From His Final Program 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

His six-week residency at Curve was a return to the city where he found his "voice", studying contemporary dance at De Montfort University, and subsidising his student days as a pizza delivery boy. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z

While previous Summer Night Concerts have included fireworks, the orchestra has this year opted for what Mr. Fechner called “a more contemporary approach” with specialized lighting on the facade of the palace. For the Vienna Philharmonic, Summer Means Schönbrunn 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Tawney, who passed away in 2007, began weaving and drawing in the 1950s and was a friend and contemporary of Agnes Martin. What is the 'women's aesthetic'? The gallery show '3 Women' offers some answers 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

While early women's rights activists attempted to demonstrate that domesticity and politics could coexist by releasing suffrage-themed cookbooks, more contemporary female politicians have carefully distanced themselves from traditionally "feminine" homemaking activities, including cooking and baking. Shedding the misconception that cooking and politics don't mix 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

And unlike some of his contemporaries, he often uses social media to break news and conduct diplomacy. Meet the 30 Most Influential People on the Internet 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Fresh, imaginative, steeped in tradition but thoroughly contemporary, his music has an immediate, nearly irresistible appeal. Shanghai Quartet proves its power 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I’m kind of a contemporary guy. Q. and A.: Chris Rock Is Itching for Dirty Work 2012-08-01T12:00:24Z

“Some of our biggest brands have a tendency not to see it’s in their best interests to stay plugged into the contemporary world.” Virgil Abloh Gets a Seat at the Power Table 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

This is the first season, the pianist Thomas Sauer said before a concert there on Friday, that Beethoven has shared the bill with a contemporary composer. Music Review: Beethoven Institute at Mannes College the New School for Music 2013-06-02T22:12:04Z

Its programme was built around Harmonielehre, the massive 1985 score that established Adams' coming of age as a composer, and which marked him out as a fresh voice in contemporary music. LSO/Adams – review 2013-01-20T16:31:00Z

It’s often thrilling to see a contemporary writer engage so deeply with one of his forebears. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

Here Rodney Bolt injects into the narrative of Mary's life scraps of other stories culled from newspaper reports, vaguely relevant novels or contemporary advice books. Book reviews roundup 2011-07-15T21:55:13Z

I had seen the Björk film, “Dancer in the Dark,” and felt like it was the story of Giselle in a contemporary context. ‘Giselle’: Remaking (and Updating) a Classic and Finding a Hit 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

At first glance, his vivid portraits seem like contemporary takes on post-Impressionism, with unrealistic colors abstracting African-American female faces. CoCA’s group show demonstrates the continued power of painting 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

The pianist made an album of standards with saxophonist Sidney Bechet, a New Orleans contemporary of Louis Armstrong's with a blazing tone, who was almost canonised in his adopted France. Piano legend Martial Solal on jazz, France and Godard 2010-05-20T21:00:00Z

“Popstar” takes aim at everything that is artificial and plastic in contemporary pop in a spirit of love rather than spite. Review: Andy Samberg Spoofs Pop Stars Without Spite. And That’s 4 Real. 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

“The Untold Story of the Talking Book” closes with a look at how contemporary publishers and authors are modifying the form. Audiobooks were set to destroy books — but instead, they opened a new world 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

In fact, this is a very contemporary image – Metzinger's analysis of a cyclist's prowess is very much in the spirit of the star cyclists of 2012. Which Olympic artwork takes gold? 2012-08-06T14:13:54Z

This is one of those play-it-safe productions that split the difference between faithfully depicting the period and injecting a few contemporary elements. Music Review: A New ‘Werther’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-02-19T11:01:44Z

Because the Turner winners are typically young iconoclasts, the prize almost invariably leads to debates about the merits of contemporary art. ArtsBeat: Four Artists Named as Finalists for Britain’s Turner Prize 2013-04-25T15:52:42Z

“This is a beautiful building that does not compromise its contemporary convictions or upstage the treasure inside,” the critic Ada Louise Huxtable wrote shortly after its opening. A Move Done, Barnes Leader Makes Another 2013-12-27T21:27:13Z

The pair had previously collaborated on a 2015 show, “Repetition and Difference,” that displayed contemporary art alongside archaeological and spiritual materials. A Museum’s Fresh Take on the Whole Megillah 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

This production was a brilliant reclamation job that made narrative sense of the work and presented it with engrossing contemporary imagery. A Look Back at a Year of Top Voices 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

Not everyone in attendance was a contemporary art fan. The heat and the lines couldn't keep them from the Broad on opening day 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Her vision of musicals extends from sumptuous golden-age lyricism through “Phantom of the Opera”-style rock belting to contemporary confessional intimacy, though she’s also unafraid of astringency, complexity and moments of plain noise. Review: A New Opera Puts Real Emotions in a Fantasy Garden 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

The stage is contemporary Kenya, with all the complexity of an evolving country and the generation that will shape it. Lupita Nyong’o: 3 reasons why the Oscar winner should go far 2014-03-06T19:55:53Z

What all these animal-disaster flicks have in common is an unstated conviction that nature by itself is not quite frightening enough to sustain a contemporary two-hour movie. Why we're fascinated by animal attacks 2010-08-18T11:01:00Z

The accusations against Mr. Alexie, who is perhaps the most prominent contemporary Native American writer, were painful for his former students and other young indigenous writers who looked up to him. With ‘There There,’ Tommy Orange Has Written a New Kind of American Epic 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Last week nearly a dozen fairs put extra servings of contemporary and Modern art on the table. Art Review: Asia Week in New York Includes More Than 40 Shows 2012-03-15T22:26:26Z

The art form emerged around 1600 in Florence, Italy, where a group of composers, poets and intellectuals embraced a sophisticated style of recitative in an attempt to reinvent lyric Greek drama for contemporary audiences. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Classical Music Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

And unlike so much contemporary opera in English, the music doesn’t distort the natural emphases of speech. ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘The Crucible’: Not New, but Darkly Up-to-Date 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

Sotheby’s is teaming up with the rapper Drake in an exhibition of contemporary works by black American artists on sale at this auction house’s New York headquarters from April 28 to June 12. Sotheby’s to Team Up With Drake 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Pressing contemporary questions—What is to be done about the great white men of the English canon? “The Shakespeare Requirement” Is a Sad-Professor Satire That Burns with Moral Anger 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

“It’s great for his career to be doing this because the contemporary market has been such a major market for the past few years,” said Virginia Smith, the fashion market and accessories director at Vogue. Theory?s Designer Shapes a New Future 2011-08-05T23:46:28Z

One way conservative ensembles gave token attention to contemporary music was to present it in a subseries of concerts. Emboldened Orchestras Embracing the New Music 2011-12-09T17:01:08Z

It used to be that the virtuoso pianist Yefim Bronfman was not someone you expected to encounter playing in a subterranean East Village club that houses all kinds of contemporary music. Music Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Works by Living Composers 2014-01-14T22:34:57Z

Most of the election-themed content will take place aboard the ship in the form of guest speakers and historians who will discuss past presidents rather than wade into contemporary debates. Cruise and Resort News: Political History on a River Trip; Rain Forest Discounts 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

But the idea of staging a summer music festival there, devoted mostly to contemporary works, is inspired. Music Review: Rite of Summer Music Festival at Governors Island - Review 2011-09-05T20:21:41Z

Her work “Linea Recta” is a contemporary interpretation of flamenco accompanied by live Spanish guitar. Dance Listings for Nov. 18-24 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

“It’s funny, it’s thought-provoking, it sprang from biblical sources, but it’s 100 percent contemporary,” David Binder, the artistic director of BAM, said of the show in a phone interview. A Show With a Cryptic Cryptic Title but No Code to Crack 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

She also recalled productive conversations with audiences from outside the sometimes insular contemporary- dance circuit. Mount Temper Arts Goes Its Own Slow Way 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Rather than lament the pervasive influence of money on contemporary art, “The Price of Everything” examines the relationship between commerce and aesthetics from different angles. Review: ‘The Price of Everything’ Asks $56 Billion Questions About Art 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rihm’s music ranges widely and ingeniously through contemporary styles and includes a sort of historical framing, as he seamlessly weaves in patches of music from Goethe’s era. Music: Emmanuel Villaume to Leave Spoleto Festival USA 2010-06-01T23:00:00Z

Instead, between conversations, it floats some of his most ethereal, lustrous images, soft, layered scenes that glow with a watercolor’s warmth, sharp departures from the gritty cityscapes of his contemporaries. Movie Review: ‘In No Great Hurry,’ a Documentary About Saul Leiter 2014-01-02T22:50:41Z

A third criticism was that Goodwin was simply wrong to suggest that contemporary women writers don't write books that are funny and joyful. Orange Prize: Women authors can lighten up?and still be taken seriously 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

For decades, Brown has created profound choreography that grapples with life and faith, and his exuberant blend of contemporary and African dance can feel like physical prayer. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

I didn't know hm as the contemporary comedian of my youth. Showtime's "The One and Only Dick Gregory" pays tribute to the legend who left comedy for activism 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

While his subject matter was often deeply traditional, centred on an immemorial sense of the land and of rural life, Reddick brought a contemporary approach to his medium. Peter Reddick obituary 2010-11-24T19:16:00Z

That said, we were not unaware or indifferent to the politics and disturbing social forces then at play, unlike a lot of our contemporaries. Review: ‘Network’ With Bryan Cranston Is Convulsive, Immersive and Still Mad as Hell 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Perhaps even more remarkable, though, given the complexion of contemporary television, is that the actors were chosen for a series in which matters of race are irrelevant. | 'Undercovers': Covert Operations: Capers and Canap?s 2010-09-21T16:00:00Z

Before those films, though, Mr. McQueen was well-known to contemporary art followers. The Week Ahead: Dec. 30 — Jan. 5 2012-12-30T08:10:05Z

Sherlock Holmes has always been the Great Detective, but even he might acknowledge the brilliance of his contemporaries, Professor S.F.X. Summer’s hidden gems, selected by Michael Dirda 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Philip II is criticised in contemporary Latin America for the burden of regulation he bequeathed. Border line 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

An altogether different, more contemporary notion of celebrity was represented by the Kardashian pop-up at the Saatchi Gallery on Sept. 22 and 23. Audrey Hepburn Shines at Auction, but Celebrity Sales Are Changing 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

A chamber group will play the compositions of Mario Diaz de Leon, an electronic musician influenced by contemporary noise music as much as by the 20th-century European composers. Just the Right Time for a ‘Nondenominatlonal Leader’ in Music 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Despite the interviews with graying contemporaries that bubble up in the stew of imagery, the film’s sense of art history is somewhat blinkered by lack of context. ‘Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV’ Review: Art Onscreen 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

Maybe it was the sunlight streaming through the vaulted glass roof of the Beaux-Arts hall, or the vast quantities of modern and contemporary art packed into it. 38th International Contemporary Art Fair in Paris 2011-10-23T22:32:00Z

“I am interested in the older stories, and in the modern and contemporary ones,” Mr. Rodland added. Torbjorn Rodland’s Puzzling Photos Are Unsettling and Arousing 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

The lines for the marquee contemporary names are even longer. Swiss Freeports Are Home for a Growing Treasury of Art 2012-07-21T18:52:48Z

The novelist Russell Banks wrote of Kingsolver's "Chekhovian tenderness towards her characters" and of her humour as "contemporary American – fast, hip and a little outrageous". A life in writing: Barbara Kingsolver 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

If the company programs something like its recent triple bill of contemporary Finnish choreographers, “we won’t get as much audience as for the classics or family ballets,” she said. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

“This is a facsimile of the original space with some contemporary flourishes,” says partner Michael Gabellini, noting that his team dug deep into archives for plans, photos, and renderings of the original space. Rockefeller Center Reconstructs its Spectacular Art Deco Mezzanine and Rotunda 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The exhibition brings us up-to-date with works by two contemporary artists. Review: ‘From Ancient to Modern’ Ponders the Origins of Sumerian Artifacts 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

While “Lupin” is set in contemporary Paris, Kay looked at the time period of the original books for inspiration. The Musée d’Orsay and Stanley Kubrick: What ‘Lupin’ Is Made Of 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

Q: It’s interesting that a lot of more contemporary comedy shows picked up on the format, with Dave Chappelle or Key and Peele stepping out to talk to the audience before the sketches. Carol Burnett talks showbiz’s evolution, gut instinct and what TV shows she’d binge on 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Much of the big-ticket auction action these days goes to Modern and contemporary art, so those deep pockets were sidelined. Getty purchases Gentileschi's radiant 'Danaë,' now owns 2 of 3 paintings in a set 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

But in Scorsese’s view, Vale had a different quality that set him apart from the rest of his contemporaries, whether Bennett, Perry Como or Al Martino. Who Is Jerry Vale and Why Does Martin Scorsese Love Him So? 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

It was only a matter of time before his published thoughts about lying and its corrosive effects on politics and society would be gathered together for our worried, contemporary mind. New & Noteworthy 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

Sentiment for Lee is rising, they say, and he could become the first African-American ever to win a best director Oscar with his film tapping into historical and contemporary U.S. racial tensions. Topsy-turvy season gives Oscars a best picture cliffhanger 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

The "Kidd Kraddick in the Morning" show is heard on more than 75 Top 40 and Hot AC radio stations and is a leader among most-listened-to contemporary morning programs, Biro said. Radio, TV personality David 'Kidd' Kraddick dies 2013-07-28T18:09:10Z

For that reason, Rutter said, the new Direct Current festival will include major contemporary trends of recent decades. Ballet and Bernstein: Kennedy Center reveals more of 2017-18 season 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

The retailers are good at creating contemporary products and, more, they’re good at communicating what they do. On the Runway: Kenzo Picks New York Retailers to Lead 2011-07-12T12:46:05Z

“We saved the espadrille from a museum future and kept it alive in a very contemporary way.” All Hail the Humble Espadrille! 2010-08-16T13:10:00Z

Throughout, Sugar in the Blood is enlivened with descriptions of contemporary Barbados, with its Anglican churches and Jacobean great houses. Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart – review 2012-07-20T21:54:01Z

Thinking of that tomorrow, and of the contemporary writing that might serve as a portal to whatever’s next, I am reminded of nature’s teeming presence in Woolf’s and Morrison’s modern elegies. Trying to Imagine Post-Pandemic Life? Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison Can Help. 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z

The annihilation threatening contemporary America wasn't evil, it was absurdity. From "Meatballs" to "Ghostbusters," Ivan Reitman was the anarchic boomer voice for Gen X nihilism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

And within that construct, I want to be contemporary and make an intervention about this moment, the times in which we are living through together. "Bodies Bodies Bodies" director: "When the Wi-Fi goes out, the demons come in" 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

At times he almost resembles his contemporary Stendhal, vivaciously describing Britain instead of Italy. ‘Letters of a Dead Man’: A travel guide like no other 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

The many-windowed art space hosts an ever-changing array of exhibitions featuring mostly local contemporary art, including watercolors, sculptures, ceramics and video installations. Five Places to Go in Nuuk, Greenland 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

Roughly contemporary structures, they are placed in a way that highlights both their distinctiveness and their commonality. James S. Snyder?s Facelift of the Israel Museum 2010-07-20T21:45:00Z

Ancient faces still visible in contemporary South Shields, they are the descendants of those who first arrived a century ago. Light from the Middle East: New Photography – review 2012-12-09T00:05:48Z

Later she offered her own folk-inflected settings of texts drawn from contemporary prison narratives and the writings of an Elizabethan highwayman. Review: ‘Prisoner’s Song’ Delves Into Creativity of Confinement 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

A. Give yourself the opportunity to see the work of contemporary Mexican artists. The Artist Behind Our 52 Places to Go in 2016 Cover 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z

In between, however, the production is on more solid footing, starting with the Finnish author Sofi Oksanen’s thoroughly contemporary reworking of the play’s second dialogue, between a soldier and a chambermaid. In Salzburg, New Lives for Two Scandalous Plays 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

In New York, visual arts curators are increasingly scouting contemporary theaters; museums are examining how to collect ephemeral work and strengthen their performance departments. In Some sweet day Series, Dance Meets Visual Arts 2012-09-02T07:30:05Z

But his affection for tipple and an impatience with religion bring him a measure closer to godless Europeans than to the contemporary heirs to the Father Knows Best fedora. Lionel Shriver: rereading Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell 2013-02-15T18:30:01Z

First up will be an exhibition about “futurism,” he said, not the early 20th-century movement but works by contemporary artists across cultures who are forward-looking. At 83, Arne Glimcher Indulges His Inner Curator 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

While the first is the name of a colorful, but mostly run-down neighborhood on the eastern side of Paris, the other evokes international art events that gather the crème de la crème of contemporary art. Paris's Belleville Hosts Its Own Biennale 2010-08-30T10:01:00Z

It aimed to spur the creation of new contemporary art in the area and organize exhibitions at home and in the West. At LACMA, the horror of 9/11 through the eyes of a Muslim artist who found a different path 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Bell is only the second music director of the Academy, leading and playing with the ensemble in a growing repertoire of contemporary as well as Baroque and Classical works. Joshua Bell to play ‘tasty’ menu at Benaroya Feb. 5 2014-01-31T21:18:57Z

The Cynical Realism and Political Pop of the 1990s were more to his taste, but what prompted him to act was the fact that China’s big museums were ignoring contemporary art. Documenting history 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Steaming outdoor pools set beneath the hotel’s turreted contemporary version of classic National Park design and cozy outside fire pits heat up the panoramic views. What to Do in Lake Tahoe 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

William Weston, a contemporary who was a Jesuit, described Byrd as someone who “had sacrificed everything for the faith.” William Byrd: An Essential English Composer for Four Centuries 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

But in the 1990s scholars doubted that it was actually by Dou and demoted the painting to “contemporary copy.” Inside Art: Elevating a Nobody to Somebody 2011-03-24T21:45:14Z

Mr. Okuyan started working with nearby schools, and now says he’s more likely to get an order to frame a 3-year-old’s refrigerator art than a lithograph or an oil by an established contemporary artist. Generation B: Three Merchants Beat the Recession by Selling to Kids 2010-04-08T22:58:00Z

That’s where I found myself last year while on assignment for an article about the principality’s burgeoning contemporary art scene. In Transit Blog: A Brush With Art, and Royalty, in Monaco 2012-04-10T18:26:00Z

But in "The Watch," which was renamed from "Neighborhood Watch" to distance itself from the Treyvon Martin killing in Florida, the threat to an ordered Ohio town isn't anything with contemporary resonance. Review: Suburbia under sci-fi siege in 'The Watch' 2012-07-26T22:49:08Z

As a gospel group, the Blind Boys don’t cover as many contemporary songs—or even vaguely contemporary songs—as their album-mates. How Do You Sing Blind Willie Johnson? 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z

I was instantly enamored with my accommodation, a contemporary cottage stocked with homemade cheese and fresh-baked bread, and with the hamlet’s serene picnic spot where tables were nestled in a cluster of cork trees. In Portugal’s mountains, an ecotourist haven rises from abandoned stone villages 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

“It’s a contemporary take on the lights you get around a vaudeville stage,” O’Connor says of the bright yet stark box. A rock. A road. A tree. How set designers for 20th century’s most famous play change it up. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

His death brought a stream of tributes from his musical contemporaries and those who were simply fans. Laughter, tears, cheers at funeral for Biz Markie 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

Like contemporaries Little Richard and Chuck Berry, Domino was a black performer whose music crossed over to white audiences and helped shape early rock. Fats Domino, rock 'n' roll pioneer, dead at 89 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

“Beauty, and power, something ancient and contemporary all at once.” Paul Harding Captures the Quiet Side of Calamity 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

She applies a rather old-fashioned literary and moral sensibility to contemporary life, and in the process creates work at once familiar and surprising. Nell Freudenberger: 'I find it hard to write about being American without an outsider's point of view' 2012-07-27T10:15:00Z

Scholars of Irish writing have hailed it as “a masterpiece” and “one of the most outstanding works in contemporary European literature.” The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

The collection was actually more contemporary than that might sound, with loose frock coats, muted floral jacquard shorts, and cool, extra-long polo shirts. Fashion Review: Paris Men?s Shows Offer Order Amid Chaos 2010-06-25T21:37:00Z

The all-suite hotel Conrad New York in Battery Park City has teamed with the contemporary clothing brand Theory for the Conrad Theory Package. Hotel and Resort News: Surfing in Hawaii; Art in Uruguay 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

The opera Taverner was my first introduction to the world of "contemporary" music, at 16, and I was fascinated by the drama, and the dark parody. The artists' artist: modern composers 2011-08-03T21:29:01Z

A show of abstract ink drawings by the contemporary Taiwanese calligrapher Huang I-Ming at M. Sutherland Fine Arts vividly demonstrates at large scale the unlimited textural and tonal possibilities of black ink on white paper. Asia Week’s Rare and Unusual Objects for Art Lovers and Collectors 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

The house has lots of old French portraits as well as bold expressionist paintings, and metal contemporary lighting mixed with romantic antique European ceiling fixtures and sconces, some lit by candles. For a respite from their high-speed work, this couple dressed their home in black and white 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Readers may be wondering at this point whether Basil Fawlty's famous dictum "Don't mention the war" also applies to contemporary German literature. What they're reading in Germany 2011-03-18T12:29:32Z

The Mrs. Files looks at history through a contemporary lens to see what the honorific “Mrs.” means to women and their identity. The Mrs. Files 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

But is also stretches further back and forward to consider all forms of racist restrictions of movement for Black Americans, spanning Jim Crow-era laws to ’60s bus boycotts to contemporary policing. New this week: David Byrne, ‘The Amazing Race’ & Tommy Lee 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

The author himself was bitterly mocked by his French contemporaries for his African heritage, despite being only one-quarter black. 'The Black Count:' the epic true story behind 'The Count of Monte Cristo' 2012-11-07T22:03:06Z

The festival brought back the two operas mounted last year, both set among a contemporary bourgeoisie much like the audience here. After a Quarter-Century, the Queen of Salzburg Calls It Quits 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

The contemporary rap artist Conway, also a Buffalo native, speaks of the miserable segregation of the city. ‘Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James’ Review: A Very Kinky Guy 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Rage is a battle-cry of a book, drawing on all corners of contemporary life, from media to education and medicine. ‘Of course Serena Williams was angry’: writer Soraya Chemaly on why women should unleash their rage 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

It’s a self-conscious nod, from Guettel and Lucas, to their uncommon fusion of operatic melodrama with the psychological realism of contemporary musical theater. ‘The Light in the Piazza’ Review: Outside, Looking In at Love 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

Yes, there are plenty of autobiographical moments in Hughes' teen films, but he was a lot less interested in his own youth than he was in those of contemporary teenagers. Why I'd like to be ... Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Emmanuel Carrère — one of France’s most admired contemporary writers — has long been drawn to fanatics and crazies. Can a chic Parisian intellectual also be a Christian? 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

I was able to locate a slim volume titled “How Count Tolstoy Lives and Works,” written by P. A. Sergeenko, a journalist and contemporary of Tolstoy’s, and published in English translation in 1899. Why Tolstoy Took Up Tennis 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

But her retro aesthetic sounds fresh, in part thanks to its sharp songwriting and focus on contemporary anxieties. This Week in Arts: a Menagerie, Fresh-Picked Plays and Cuban Dance 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

The cuisine is contemporary Italian fusion, but the large portions are very Old World. Visiting Hollywood, Fla., while it still has its funky charm 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

In the contemporary scenes the women reunite for the funeral of a dashing dreamboat they met en route to their new home. | 'Bride Flight?: Three Friends, Each on a Journey 2011-06-09T22:21:07Z

But the Russians were dissimilar collectors — “Morozov advanced in the shadow, Shchukin in the light,” one contemporary of theirs said — and so these are dissimilar shows. French and Russian Art on a ‘War and Peace’ Scale 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Sadly, disappointment at denial of perceived entitlement is already a powerful engine of contemporary misery. Films like Tooth Fairy can warp young minds 2010-05-31T09:55:00Z

Photograph: Alamy The recent death of Iain Banks left a gaping hole in contemporary literature, but nowhere was the loss felt more than in his native Scotland. Snake Road by Sue Peebles – review 2013-07-27T07:45:00Z

As a result the film feels contemporary, rather than just a timely reminder of the troubling past. Why Hidden Figures should win the best picture Oscar 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Each nation nominates a representative contemporary artist to create a work or installation for their designated space in the city of Venice. Venice Biennale, punk-style: The NSK State Pavilion, for “stateless individuals who are looking for new citizenship” 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z

I had a strong feeling that I couldn’t see the contemporary situation, and I decided that this was because firsthand knowledge is an obstacle to insight. The Only Thing I Envy Men 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

After all this exotic polyphony, the contemporary vocal music sung by at the Little Night Music concert at the Kaplan Penthouse later that evening sounded relatively sedate. Music Review: Ensemble Basiani?s Georgian Fare at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-17T22:40:00Z

We are looking for contemporary beauty with an emotional component — that is what people are craving.” Nymphenburg Porcelain Gets a Fresh New Look 2010-04-26T14:01:00Z

It’s a synthesis of my mind, to mix Italian design from the ’50s with parquet Versailles and contemporary mirrored furniture. Giambattista Valli: The Birth of Ideas, and Happy Moments 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Its footprint is seen everywhere from hip-hop to the contemporary dance music explosion. Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z

Outlining contemporary debates, he is a bit more expansive. The universe, writ small 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Sleeper Hit: A modern four-poster bed bridges past and present and gives the otherwise contemporary space a dash of Southern romanticism. 2010-02-08T16:51:00Z

Part of engaging people is asking contemporary questions, speaking in a contemporary idiom. In conversation: Nathan Englander and Jonathan Safran Foer 2012-02-10T09:00:01Z

But at the same time it's hard not to admire the ambition that drives such an approach, as well as Hooper's efforts to combine a rousing, old-fashioned musical tale with contemporary and immediate aesthetics. Review: Hooper's `Les Miserables' is relentless 2012-12-10T20:49:09Z

As its name implies, the student ensemble, directed by David Ludwig, specializes in contemporary music, so its mastery of Ms. Tower’s relatively conservative idiom was no surprise. Music Review: Joan Tower Is Showcased at Miller Theater 2014-04-20T20:29:13Z

“The contemporary emphasis on self-focus flies in the face of research that meaningful connections and other-oriented action are what fortify us.” Paging Dr. Samantha Boardman, for My Mental Health 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

While his High Renaissance contemporaries Raphael and Michelangelo were busy finding ways to portray man in a divine light, Piero sought to stress humankind’s more primeval roots. The National Gallery unveils an exhibition of works by Old Master Piero di Cosimo 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

"What compels me is how history and tradition collides with life in contemporary London," Schwahn said by email. British are ready to rule U.S. TV sets this summer 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Ms. Whelan has performed a broader and more varied repertory than almost any other female principal in City Ballet’s history, spanning romantic, classical and contemporary roles with extraordinary versatility and range. Wendy Whelan Says Farewell to City Ballet 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

This spring, the company again demonstrated its pioneering spirit- staging its annual Vox festival of contemporary American works at a Manhattan university and a chichi downtown club. Board of troubled NYC Opera meets to talk future 2011-05-19T16:51:18Z

AB: I think perhaps Rodin didn't take the literary meanings of his sculptures as seriously as his contemporaries. Henry Moore talks about Rodin's irresistible influence – from the archive 2013-03-23T07:59:02Z

In its understated, contemporary hyper-realism, “The Gabriels” feels as revolutionary in a way as van Hove’s minimalist “View From the Bridge” was, in its attempt to upend expectations for 1950s naturalism. The Kennedy Center sets an inviting table for ‘The Gabriels’ 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

“Collectors travel all around the world to see and buy great art,” said Offer Waterman, a London-based dealer in modern and contemporary British art. London Modern and Contemporary Auctions: A Market Minus the Froth 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

In a short film made for the exhibition, there is a curiously grudging aspect to the credit some contemporary writers and historians are prepared to grant America as a place of refuge. Exhibition Review: ?Emma Lazarus? at Museum of Jewish Heritage - Review 2012-01-03T22:12:56Z

In the pages he sent, the emphasis, bizarrely, was on literary injustices, on outrages within the publishing world of contemporary New York—it read like a Bowman tape, transcribed. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bringuier’s program, which ended with Stravinsky’s Suite from “The Firebird,” would have benefited from at least one recent piece to show us how he grapples with truly contemporary music. Music Review: Lionel Bringuier Leads Philharmonic by Himself 2013-06-14T19:16:12Z

Topher Grace, who plays 1970s Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, said the cast and crew were struck by the movie’s contemporary relevance while filming. Spike Lee hopes Trump watches KKK film 'BlacKkKlansman' 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

What about contemporary artists who might show at the Affordable Art Fair? The affordable-art paradox: Do reasonable prices make pieces of art less desirable? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

It also plans to screen the entire 24 hours on three consecutive weekends beginning Jan. 4 The museum’s contemporary galleries will also remain open during all of the after-hours screenings. The Week Ahead: Dec. 16 — 22 2012-12-16T07:40:07Z

She was the subject of a show the previous year at HangarBicocca, a major contemporary museum in Milan. These women are some of America’s greatest artists. Why don’t they get the respect they deserve? 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Not least, he briefly discusses the genesis of the two immensely popular contemporary interpretations of the great detective, “Sherlock” and “Elementary.” If you love Sherlock Holmes, you’ll love this book 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Anyone familiar with contemporary performance might guess the ending, one more cliché left on the list. Dance Review: ‘Craft of the Father’ at the Chocolate Factory 2014-04-30T19:52:26Z

Those versed in contemporary art will recognize the referents. Don Delillo's deep freeze: 'Zero K' takes on death, futurists and cryonics 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

The Wyeths ascribe the ills of the contemporary world to drugs, left-wing whiners and bad manners. | 'Other Desert Cities': Drowning in Domestic Denial in the Sands of Palm Springs 2011-01-14T03:00:00Z

Their friendship was not close, or at least was not articulated, but together they became a legend, inspiring contemporaries with reports and photos of mysterious passes and peaks in the Himalayas and the Karakorams. Shipton and Tilman by Jim Perrin – review 2013-03-27T11:00:01Z

Art in general has a significant presence here — where there’s money, there are galleries — and a fruitful day can be spent exploring the lively contemporary art scene. Zurich, for a Song 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z

The original plot for "A Beautiful Life" conceived in 2000 featured a Hong Kong police officer and a mainland woman, but Lau reversed the roles to better fit contemporary trends. 'Infernal Affairs' director tries hand at romance 2011-04-11T12:34:08Z

He was critical of the lack of content in dance and of most contemporary choreographers, whom he believed hid behind a cloak of abstraction. Nigel Charnock obituary 2012-08-07T14:06:41Z

“It’s good to be contemporary — and she’s a confident woman,” said Mr. Valli, putting that statement to the test by baring a woman’s legs, if not her soul. Transparently Sporty 2012-10-01T19:05:37Z

Yet there is something touching about seeing the star not as a movie diva, interpreted by contemporary artists like Andy Warhol, but as an eternal beauty. Florence Exhibit Matches Marilyn Monroe to Art 2012-06-22T14:18:08Z

For example, contemporary anxiety about environmental damage registers in Watson’s installation “dead littoral.” Indigenous art at Australian embassy showcases fluidity of form

The “Frozen” closing is symbolically important because Disney is not only deep-pocketed but also plays an outsize role in contemporary Broadway. Disney Closes ‘Frozen’ on Broadway, Citing Pandemic 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

“The ideals and values that inform our furniture are in fact timeless and can be contemporary or traditional,” says Adam Rogers, director of design and product development at Moser. Trend spotting at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

But other characters get a more contemporary makeover. ArtsBeat: "Downton Abbey" Gets the Paper Doll Treatment 2012-02-17T17:02:49Z

Beyond these, however, there is so much contemporary work that is itching to be read, to be embraced as part of our healing process as a community or appreciated anew by allies. What to do after Orlando: Read LGBTQ stories 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

But something else emerged in its place: A public space that no longer tried to ape European precedents but instead seemed entirely home in contemporary Los Angeles. Chris Burden's architectural intelligence 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

You’re known as a major figure in contemporary jazz, in part because of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. A Pioneering Black Composer Keeps Pushing 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

A more public literary Christian was Henryk Sienkiewicz, who won a Nobel prize while his contemporaries Tolstoy, Ibsen and Twain were overlooked. Where did all the Christian writers go? 2010-03-31T10:11:00Z

On Saturday night, an indoor performance will feature artists offering contemporary takes on two of those styles, Kathak and Bharatanatyam, as well as more traditional interpretations. Dance Listings for Aug. 12-18 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Much of the contemporary art exhibited in Asia Week’s galleries involves recent translations of ancient traditions like calligraphy, scroll painting or ceramics. Asia Week Celebrates an Array of Art as Vast as a Continent 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

With Calder mobiles selling for three times their estimates and a Warhol “Flowers” painting left unsold, Tuesday night’s auction of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s New York only deepened uncertainty about the art market. Mixed Night in ‘Strange’ Christie’s Contemporary and Postwar Sale 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Through the lobby is a quiet cigar room and an upscale restaurant serving contemporary takes on regional cuisine. | Romeo Hotel, Naples 2010-10-22T18:26:00Z

Here in Santa Fe, the costumes are contemporary street clothes, with the youthful physicists looking like engineers at a Silicon Valley start-up; just a handful of dancers thrust and wriggle to Emily Johnson’s choreography. Review: ‘Doctor Atomic’ Brings the Bomb Home to New Mexico 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

I am highly intoxicated by the brightness of contemporary fiction. Attica Locke, Novelist and TV Writer, Has Some Suggestions for Hollywood 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

As exercises in both technical prowess and aesthetic purity, “A Quiet Place” and its contemporaries augur an encouraging return to fundamentals. Perspective | ‘A Quiet Place’ reminds us of the power possible in silence on screen 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Leonardo embodies the creativity of the “many-sided people” of the Renaissance” — the term that the cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt coined for him and his contemporaries. A New Biography of the Renaissance Genius 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

“That’s our way of tipping our hat to contemporary life today,” she said. Artists unleash their animal instincts in new mural project 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

The space is uncluttered and contemporary, with light earthy colors and lots of wood. Bites: Restaurant Report: Prairie Canary in Grinnell, Iowa 2013-06-07T18:50:09Z

And works by contemporary First Nations artists stand alongside the objects from other centuries, striking the idea that the collection is “artifacts” from “vanished” cultures. 7 travel and sightseeing tips for your next trip to Vancouver 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Finally, three contemporary works fit in nicely together. ‘Latin Heat’: Washington Ballet’s mash-up revels in high energy 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Even though I specialise in contemporary fiction, I was intrigued enough by ancient novels, and angry enough at contemporary critics, to attempt a complete history of the novel, with special attention to the innovative ones. The novel is centuries older than we've been told 2010-07-23T13:56:00Z

He died, alas, in 2013, but despite those eight years, he is still a very contemporary writer: Why the Nobel-Winning Economist Amartya Sen Recommends ‘King Lear’ 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

“What we’d like to see is something new — a Swedish Academy that is contemporary, open to the world, inclusive, transparent.” An Alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, Judged by You 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Ellmann is the author of six previous novels and the creator of some of contemporary fiction’s most committed curmudgeons. A Thousand-Page Novel — Made Up of Mostly One Sentence — Captures How We Think Now 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

Only for Those Who Aren’t Photosensitive t weekend Japan Society presented its 15th annual contemporary dance showcase and once again opened a window onto the East Asian scene. Dance Review: Contemporary Dance Showcase at Japan Society 2013-01-16T17:52:03Z

He now says that he did not actually write “Blurred Lines,” his most famous song—which would mean that he lied about this to Oprah Winfrey, a cardinal sin in contemporary America. Why the “Blurred Lines” Verdict Should Be Thrown Out 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Gilbert asks: I want to ask you about this extended absence of live music, but first — please pair me a few contemporary scores with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony! Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

“Many contemporary artists integrate film footage into their installations.” Canyon Cinema Filmmakers? Cooperative Sees Grim Future 2012-02-17T13:00:00Z

Its softer focus and more thoughtful lyrics lifted the title track and “Helluva Life” into the Top 10 country charts, though it also skirted close to adult contemporary territory. Bluegrass and country alert — Hot Rize, Frankie Ballard play Neptune | Concert preview 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

“The younger mainland Chinese collectors may have a reverence for the blue-chip heavyweight Western contemporary artists,” said Nick Simunovic, managing director of Gagosian Gallery Hong Kong. Art Basel Hong Kong Opens to Less Frenzy 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

The Rubin has scheduled more shows of contemporary art for the future; maybe more adventurous minds will emerge. Art Review: Rubin Museum Show of Contemporary Tibetans 2010-08-19T21:54:00Z

Now, as he sits in a Midtown cafe 20 years later, his eyes are wide open as he contemplates the longevity of his career in contemporary dance. John Jasperse Prepares His New Work, ?Canyon? 2011-11-13T05:00:10Z

Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton and other contemporary stars are well represented in the lineup, but veterans and newer voices will also be featured. What’s on TV Monday: ‘CMA Best of the Fest’ and ‘Foodie Love’ 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

Fox News viewers consistently rank near the bottom of polls on informed viewers, while viewers of shows like “The Colbert Report” know more about contemporary political issues than those consuming mainstream news media. Stewart, Colbert save the day: Bill O’Reilly and Fox News’ ISIS insanity makes them more essential than ever 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The group has released eight albums over the past 15 years, becoming something of an idiosyncratic institution in the liminal territory between jazz and contemporary classical. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

From March 26 to 29, PAD—Paris’s art and design fair—exhibits contemporary and antique furniture, art, jewelry, and decor at the Tuileries. An Edition of the Parisian Poster Publication Les Maîtres de l’Affiche Is Up for Auction 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

In short, Utopia was a massive step in the right direction for British TV: a stylish, intelligent and violent contemporary mystery that, hopefully, will now find the audience it deserves through this box set. Utopia – box set review 2013-05-30T14:00:01Z

It was a moment when textiles went from being merely decorative to being a medium for contemporary design, and she was a pioneer of that crossover. Ruth Adler Schnee, Exuberant Designer of Modernist Textiles, Dies at 99 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

Lighting is a mix of contemporary and vintage, and the apartment is filled with art and black-and-white photography, displayed on picture ledges. Little house, big home: the Parisian pad that’s both solo retreat and family space 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

"It’s not just a festival, we are a festival which deals with the problems of the contemporary world." Stars, virtual reality and migrants to dominate Venice film fest 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Just a few blocks away, it’s a stylish, cozy lounge with all the tropes of contemporary cocktail culture: boutique spirits, classic glassware, ambiguously marked entrance. 36 Hours: Hamburg, Germany 2012-01-19T16:06:15Z

But art must deal with the unimaginable, or at least try, so more than 40 painters, printmakers and graphic designers have addressed contemporary political issues in “Artists United!” In the galleries: Trump in poncho and sombrero, Clinton as a suffragette 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

And sure, these are unfashionable choices, ones that have very little to do with the rest of contemporary R&B. And if she stuck close to them, it would be notable. New Music: New Albums From Estelle, Lambchop and Matthew Shipp Trio 2012-02-27T23:36:19Z

But the real miracle here is the way Sathian melds that ancient magic to the contours of her otherwise natural story of contemporary life. Review | Sanjena Sathian’s ‘Gold Diggers’ is a witty social satire with a dash of magic 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

We all compose, and we’re committed to presenting contemporary music to as many audiences as we can.” Adventurous JACK Quartet returns to Seattle June 11 2013-06-10T17:48:30Z

It didn’t play the celebrity game; it played the contemporary C-suite game. Céline, Hedi Slimane, and the Grown-Up Woman 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

By dressing Ms. Boeck and Mr. Boniello in casual contemporary attire, Mr. Arden sets up a nifty visual echo of the contrast between the show’s period setting and Mr. Sheik’s surging pop and rock music. Review: ‘Spring Awakening’ by Deaf West Theater Brings a New Sensation to Broadway 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

She said: "There hasn't been a contemporary kung fu movie made for a long time; at the same time it is a homage to the genre." Keanu Reeves' revolution: Matrix star to direct Chinese-backed kung fu film 2013-05-20T14:50:57Z

The strengths, at least, are immediately apparent, in piece and prologue alike: youthful vigour, a relish in dancing for its own sake, an invigorating mix of contemporary and African styles. Tavaziva Dance ? review 2011-03-10T17:39:47Z

He also criticised the political correctness of contemporary comedy, but stopped short of supporting his friend’s view of the world. Terry Gilliam says he disagrees with John Cleese's worldview 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

The Faeries are a contemporary instrumental dance band who match rapid-fire bagpipe, fiddle and whistle solos with guitar, keyboards and electronica, occasional brass, and an impressively confident rhythm section. Peatbog Faeries: Dust ? review 2011-08-04T21:31:01Z

They invite many interpretations and are likely to outlive the achievements of many of his contemporaries. After the Storm, Philip Guston for Real 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

We never see this aspect of contemporary Pakistan on our screens.” Mira Nair on ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ 2013-04-19T20:45:03Z

Robert Hunter—a sociologist, author, charity organizer, and contemporary of Addams—believed that settlement residents were wired differently. The American’s dilemma: Jane Addams, Barack Obama & the urge to help others 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

It’s been decades since jazz singers played such an active and contemporary role, but for most of the mid-20th century it was hard to distinguish many jazz singers from pop stars. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Vocals 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

The novels that Cassava has distributed in the West span a range of genres, settings, subjects and styles, offering American readers a much broader view of contemporary Nigerian fiction. A Wave of New Fiction From Nigeria, as Young Writers Experiment With New Genres 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

A contemporary descendant of the lush, operatic films of Luchino Visconti, it observes the familial rites of the Recchis, a wealthy Milanese clan whose fortune is built on textiles. Film: New Directors/New Films Offers ?I Am Love? 2010-03-30T21:33:00Z

When Simon blathers about being "contemporary," let's assume he doesn't mean an auto-tuned dance club disc. On 'American Idol': How to tell the singer from the song? 2010-04-02T16:16:00Z

There was a telling contrast in demand for 20th-century works with “crossover” appeal to contemporary art buyers, and for pieces appealing to more traditional tastes. Christie’s and Phillips Have Auctions With Differing Results 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The light-filled gallery on the Museum of Modern Art’s fourth floor, just outside the rooms that house the permanent collection of painting and sculpture, presents a different set of obstacles for the contemporary artist. Art Review: Carol Bove Sculpture Shows at the High Line and MoMA 2013-07-25T20:55:54Z

That’s not to mention the thousands of pieces by old masters and contemporary academics that he bought and sold to keep his business going. Paul Durand-Ruel, the Paris Dealer Who Put Impressionism on the Map 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

And we were skirting right along the American-Mexican border, and I looked out the right window, and there was the sprawl of contemporary El Paso suburbia. Ride the rails with Billy Bragg and Joe Henry: “You never hear anybody talking about a lonesome car alarm, do you, playing in a distance” 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

It implies, in other words, an appreciation and awareness of the principles of contemporary action cinema, and perhaps even a sense of play in respect to the genre. Movie Review: ‘Bullet to the Head’ Stars Sylvester Stallone 2013-01-31T22:40:36Z

The gown was a dramatic and unabashed celebration of French fashion as a contemporary, global and cultural phenomenon, as well as a craft rooted in history and tradition. Perspective | For Melania Trump, fashion diplomacy was defined by a hat 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

That utterly contemporary musical was inspired a little by Kennedy gossip and a lot by the gripping chicanery of ancient Rome in “I, Claudius.” Song and dance as a political ‘Fix’ 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Though it has a contemporary vibe, the complex is suffused with history. Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre heads to L.A. with force of nature 'Rice' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

The original bar, flooring, wood molding, and booths are supplemented with industrial marble high-top tables, contemporary gray wall coverings, and touches of red, which was a prevalent shade in the former restaurant’s decor. Jose Garces opens the Olde Bar in Philadelphia 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Two dozen or so hotels dot the island’s shores, ranging from simple, $15-a-night bungalows to boutique properties like the Plub Pla, whose contemporary, chic villas are linked by raised wooden walkways. ‘Old Thailand’ Found on Sleepy Islands 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

So you feel that contemporary British novels from the literary establishment are unoriginal and not up to scratch? Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z

In other galleries, just steps away from the first-century bronzes and marble busts, will be site-specific installations created by renowned contemporary artists. The Prada Foundation’s New Arts Complex in Milan 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

In the lobbies, the director organizes what the company calls an “artisan market . . . designed to look like the open-air markets of Padua and curated to appeal to savvy, contemporary shoppers.” Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘Shrew’: An all-male muddle 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

And I do very much believe in the future of contemporary music, and that there will be a healthy music industry. ArtsBeat: At 78, Clive Davis Still Commands the Stage 2011-02-11T18:20:18Z

Around me was yet another Rome institution that had gone contemporary. Revelations in High-End Rome 2012-09-28T18:24:21Z

The contemporary, post-Sontagian polemics adopt a posture of provocation in faintly echoing such forebears, but they are, in their hearts, pluralistic, and in fact suggest only a slight revision in perspective. Against “Against [X]” 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

The committee said the mobile trail would feature the work of leading contemporary writers revisiting the themes and spaces of Sillitoe's Nottingham. App created for Sillitoe memorial 2012-10-27T10:08:53Z

Here at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, a new contemporary piece by an American artist hasn’t been presented since the doors opened in 1987. Is that paint on the gallery rug? New show marks major shift at the Sackler. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Armani took elements that have become wardrobe standards and put in a contemporary twist, pairing Bermuda shorts with leggings, and updating camouflage with cool city colors, including putty, beige and gray. Alexander McQueen sticks to British roots 2010-06-20T16:24:00Z

In 2006, it sold for $27.1 million, then an auction high not only for the Abstract Expressionist artist, but for any postwar and contemporary work. A Richter, Owned by Clapton, Fetches $22 Million at Christie’s 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

This wasn't a journey to bustling, contemporary China. Message from NY Fashion Week: Consumer choices 2011-02-17T22:10:27Z

As for contemporary relevance, the private garden in all its forms has always been a place of succor against the inevitable travails of life. In medieval monastery gardens, an uplifting model for something we could all use: Refuge 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

The exhibit was closed a few days after it opened after a group of altar boys defaced many of the contemporary paintings, which used religious allusions to express attitudes toward religion, culture and the state. Moscow curators face 3 years in prison 2010-07-07T12:28:00Z

At the same time, I delved into the Passions of Bach, which, in their godlike way, at once stand apart from the contemporary world and encompass it entirely. Making Art in a Time of Rage 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

For Eckhardt, technology has contributed to a speeding up of the tempo of contemporary existence — a phenomenon called “social acceleration” — which profoundly changes human perceptions of the passage of time. Obsessed by the Present, Who’s Got Time for Old Masters? 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

At recent auctions contemporary art sold better than old masters. A New Line From Jeff Koons 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

More recently, a cultural revival has been converting abandoned properties into everything from craft breweries to a contemporary art museum. 36 Hours in Savannah, Ga. 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Then, Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow" stole the record for any contemporary artwork at auction when it sold for nearly $87 million at Christie's on Tuesday. NYC spring art auctions abound in records 2012-05-12T21:16:05Z

Even though you are creating 1920s clothes, does the contemporary world inspire your work? Secrets of ‘Downton Abbey’ Style 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

Donoghue’s previous novel, the acclaimed, disturbing best-seller “Room,” mostly took place within the contemporary confines of four walls, where a woman and her small son were held captive. ‘Frog Music’: a seething summer in 1876 San Francisco 2014-04-02T20:43:21Z

It’s a deeply absorbing show — partly because the art’s formal qualities are strangely contemporary. 'Painted in Mexico': LACMA's remarkable and important new show 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

“You’re creating one bright wall where art is displayed, and indirectly lighting the room,” says Russell, noting that it’s a technique preferred by many contemporary collectors. Five Tips for Lighting Art 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

His thesis play, “An Ordinary Muslim,” tells the story of Azeem Bhatti and his wife, Saima Khan, as they navigate the complicated intersection of their Pakistani heritage and contemporary British culture. 3 Young People to Watch in Theater This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Rather than sacred verses, she incorporated text by the contemporary poet Matthew Zapruder, particularly his 2010 collection “Come on All You Ghosts.” Review: Missy Mazzoli’s Unsettling ‘Vespers for a New Dark Age’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

In addition to nurturing an audience that has outgrown children’s classes and family tours, Teen Night, she said, can help “inspire a new generation of contemporary art.” Spare Times for Children for June 15-21 2012-06-14T22:46:48Z

Her music draws on a wide range of material from other mediums, including literature and visual art, in scores that are now thorny, then surging with a kind of contemporary romanticism. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Art Basel, described as the world's top fair for modern and contemporary works, opens on Wednesday with 300 galleries displaying works with a combined total worth of around $1.75 billion, according to specialist insurer Hiscox. Art market buzzes ahead of Basel, London sales 2011-06-14T13:22:25Z

The 11-room upscale property opened in late 2017 and emphasizes design, art and eco-friendliness: the aesthetic of clean white exteriors and walls mixed with woods is contemporary African and pays homage to Rwanda. At a Kigali Hotel, Luxury and Light 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

Do you see more shows now being more emboldened to take on divisive contemporary subjects? ‘The Good Fight’: Michelle and Robert King Give Closing Arguments 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

The choice of these seven does not pretend to be representative of contemporary Russians. In Masha Gessen’s ‘The Future Is History,’ Homo Sovieticus Rises 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

But it’s more precise to say that he always wanted to challenge what people expected contemporary music to sound like, elevated the popular discourse without being didactic or inaccessible. A David Bowie for every mood: From “Space Oddity” to his farewell “Blackstar,” Bowie’s shape-shifting always felt right 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

Atmosphere Full of red curtains and neon, and name-brand contemporary art. Making Way for the Tried and True at Cut by Wolfgang Puck 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

But it would be a mistake to think of Cole as an environmentalist in any contemporary sense. Review | Did America’s great landscape painter fear progress and hate democracy? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Kwast said that he couldn’t really imagine a higher honor than to see his contemporary painting hang alongside the old masters. How Hard Is It to Paint Like Vermeer? TV Contestants Find Out. 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

“His mind was a haunted house,” according to one contemporary journalist quoted here. Necromancers, Killers and Presidents, Summoned From the Pages of History 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

"It's a progressive, intellectual drama that looks at identity, specifically contemporary African American identity," he continued. Actors to wear blackface for 'hackle-raising' new play 2013-01-04T16:32:10Z

Contrast opera with some contemporary performance art, and opera then seems readily accessible. It's not elitist to dress up for the opera 2012-10-04T09:48:12Z

Said Riordan of the Broad's Grand Avenue location: "This whole avenue, it's going to become the contemporary arts center of the world." A sneak peek at the Broad museum draws an enthusiastic crowd 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Their satisfying heft and ergonomic shape offer an unnerving haptic trace of human life before contemporary humankind. Was Australopithecus an Artist? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

On Friday in a conference call, Sotheby’s executives announced that the first sale, of contemporary art, would be June 29 beginning at 6:30 p.m., immediately followed by its Impressionist and modern art evening sale. Sotheby’s to Hold ‘Live’ Auctions in June, Remotely 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

The gay-marriage twist could be seen as a facile nod to a contemporary social issue, like a garish political bumper sticker slapped on the play. Beyond Shakespeare’s Wildest Dreams 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

Giornetti added that it was his intention to maintain the Chinese heritage but blend it with a contemporary look that would be appreciated by Western and Eastern customers alike. Italian investor looks to rev up Shanghai Tang sales 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Costner stars as John Dutton in the Paramount + series, the patriarch of a powerful ranching family in the contemporary American West. Wildly popular "Yellowstone" is in danger of cancellation, thanks to star Kevin Costner 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z

For “Julius Caesar,” she wrote in an opening narration to underscore the contemporary resonances. A Theater in a California Canyon Becomes an Oasis Once Again 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

New Year’s Eve with Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox In case you haven’t heard, this eclectic musical collective puts a vintage spin on contemporary pop tunes, and here they’ll do so twice in one night. What's happening around L.A. this New Year's Eve? Here's a little list... 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

That problem becomes even more acute in the contemporary sections. Review | Anthony Doerr’s ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ is a convoluted love letter to books 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

It is not clear exactly who painted over the god — nor why, or when — although we know that other Vermeer paintings were altered by later generations to meet contemporary tastes. A Vermeer Restoration Reveals a God of Desire 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

These responses first arise out of my questioning of how to preserve my true self in contemporary society. Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z

And now Amazon Prime Video has brought eight of those essays on navigating the tangled web of contemporary relationships — and living to tell the tale, or not — to the screen. The Week in Arts: Glorious Nubian Art in Boston 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

It seemed an indicator, albeit fanciful, that the battle for contemporary music had been won. Emboldened Orchestras Embracing the New Music 2011-12-09T17:01:08Z

“It’s entirely incongruous,” the owner says of the piece, calling it “a contemporary statement that catches you by surprise in old-world surroundings.” Bruce Budd Redecorates Houston Mansion 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Now she's finally getting a contemporary documentary film that will examine the full scope of her talents, influence and turmoil. Watch the trailer for Netflix's Nina Simone documentary 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Not all this contemporary work is equally strong. 5,000 Years of Asian Art in 1 Single, Thrilling Conversation 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Opera as an art form about investigation might seem a radical idea in a modern world where so much about contemporary arts and entertainment is defined by conventional narrative. Exploratory 'First Take' presents six operas in progress 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

His specialties He’s known for intense performances of the standard repertory — classics like Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler and Shostakovich — more than contemporary music. What You Need to Know About the New York Philharmonic’s Next Music Director 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Increased awareness of our contemporary environmental crisis may explain why, unlike the Murphy movies, this “Dolittle” is set in the past. ‘Dolittle’ Review: Baa, Humbug 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

The Chelsea location of the contemporary design showcase hosts 80 international exhibitors. New York Design Destinations You Can’t Miss This Month 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Among the contemporary initiatives underway are film programs, community-driven projects and residencies for performance artists. New SFMoMA Aims to Be Not Just Giant, but Global 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Yet though the piece has had wide impact within the sphere of contemporary music, it is seldom performed. Music Review: Abstract Expressionism in Aural Mixed Media 2011-02-25T23:55:36Z

The show has its origins in 2010, as a film based on Jagger’s idea of two friends living through four decades in the music business, from 60s R&B to contemporary hip hop. Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger team up for record label drama 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

They lack the white noise of contemporary commentary and opinion that critics usually must work through, either consciously or subconsciously, on the way to their own conclusions when writing about art exhibitions. Still Life: Flea Market Paintings as Art Discoveries 2012-08-28T16:24:10Z

The Accident is set in contemporary Albania and central Europe, but the departed Hoxha's shadow still lingers, as does the fog of war that clouded the whole Balkan peninsula during the 1990s and early 2000s. The Accident by Ismail Kadare 2010-08-29T10:45:00Z

Ken Johnson Long Island City, Queens, should be a destination for followers of contemporary art during the next while, as exhibitions have just opened at both of its premier art spaces. The Week Ahead: Jan. 30 ? Feb.5 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

Fogerty, who plans to hit the road to promote the new album this year, has an explanation for why his work and that of his contemporaries still resonates. John Fogerty enlists friends to rework past hits on new album 2013-05-29T00:04:16Z

The musical is scheduled to open April 21, 2016 at the Music Box Theater, and is to be produced by Scott Rudin, one of the most successful contemporary producers of movies and stage works. Audra McDonald Will Return to Broadway in 'Shuffle Along' 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

What if a performer in a shirtless contemporary work uses makeup to camouflage his half-sleeve of ink, but it turns his partner’s costume brown when he lifts her?  How ballet dancers flaunt — and hide — their tattoos on stage 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Pinderhughes shot the video in black and white and interspersed clips of Civil Rights-era footage with those of contemporary racial justice protests. This video captures the performance piece everyone’s talking about 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

The sweet spot for contemporary manliness often seems to be a less troubled kind of virilitas—one that’s more democratic and less misogynistic. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Outsider candidates became the vehicles of an existential protest, “Old America in resentful revolt against both contemporary politics and contemporary economics.” What Do This Season’s Political Books Tell Us About the Election? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

As a man who has devoted much of his career to erasing cultural boundaries in theater, Mr. Brook is appalled by the contemporary resurgence of nationalism. For Peter Brook, the Experimental Showman, ‘Nothing Is Ever Finished’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

He routinely challenges audiences with, say, half a program of more or less contemporary music, as he did in the small Buttenwieser Hall at the 92nd Street Y on Tuesday night. Review: Mahan Esfahani, a Harpsichordist With a Chip on His Keyboard 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Connick wrote new lyrics to accompany a reprise of the song “Maybe” that spoke to the contemporary casting. ‘Annie Live!’: Coming Soon to Your Living Room 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

BASEL, Switzerland — An Andy Warhol self-portrait priced at more than $30 million led the rush of early sales at the V.I.P. preview of Art Basel, the world’s pre-eminent fair devoted to modern and contemporary art. An '80s Warhol Brings $30 Million at Art Basel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

“I immediately realized that this 90-degree pattern could be the starting point of an outdoor furniture collection that is both flexible and rigid, antique yet contemporary, graphic and iconic.” See a New Line of Colorful Tables for Spring 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

At a time of heightened sensitivity around issues of equity and inclusion, some are bound to question the Met’s decision to make a white man the face of contemporary art at the country’s largest museum. Met Appoints New Leader of Modern and Contemporary Art 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

As someone who harbors a fondness for science fiction and thirsts for more complex treatment of religion in contemporary novels, I relished every chance to cloister myself away with “The Book of Strange New Things.” Book review: ‘The Book of Strange New Things,’ by Michel Faber

The first of the museum’s two-part photography showcase, the exhibition will highlight the many roles of contemporary photography. Explore 50 Years of Contemporary Photography in a New Exhibition in Philadelphia 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Yet, for a select group of artisans, designers and their clients, interest flourishes in contemporary interpretations of gilt-bronze objects. Our Midas Moment, From Galleries to Artisans 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

It certainly didn’t help that the Fifth Avenue museum remained the staging ground of big-draw contemporary shows like the David Hockney retrospective or the recent display of gifts from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. The Best Art of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

One of the greatest here has an almost timeless quality; it could be archaic, just unearthed in Peru or China, but it is also contemporary. They Hold Weeds, and an Artist’s Sublime Vision 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

For nearly 40 years, Thomas Perry has been steadily building one of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary crime fiction. Review | ‘Eddie’s Boy,’ by Thomas Perry, continues the saga of a retired hit man who can’t escape his past 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z

Its rose windows glow like gems in the darkness, akin to the effect at the cathedral’s Gothic contemporary, Notre-Dame de Paris. A Controversial Restoration That Wipes Away the Past 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Don’t assume, though, that “Bloody Bloody” is a satire of a single contemporary political phenomenon. 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson': Public Theater Stages a Populist Musical 2010-04-07T04:12:00Z

Across the country, university and college museums run the gamut from those featuring contemporary art and ancient relics mostly used as teaching tools to world-class collections tackling groundbreaking projects and traveling exhibitions. Raising the Cultural Bar on Campuses 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

“Ascension,” however, takes a slightly more focused approach by homing in on the contemporary Chinese economy. ‘Ascension’ Review: A Symphony of Productivity 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

The eyeglasses were meant as a contemporary touch, but the look still struck her as too period and too formal. What Befits a Legendary Queen 2011-04-03T02:14:52Z

He has championed works by contemporary Chinese composers, and his musical travels have taken him to Syria and Iran. A Border-Crossing Work Wins One of Music’s Biggest Prizes 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

By reconnecting popular music with the contemporary stage — a link that had been lost long before Stephen Sondheim — “Hamilton” has won the favor of a whole raft of contemporary hip-hop and R&B recording artists. A critic's take: Why 'Hamilton's' Tony Award record ushers in a new era for theater 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

The canted plaza will read differently if someday it is connected to a lighter, more airy and contemporary urbanism across the street. Is architect Bjarke Ingels’s bold remake of the Smithsonian Castle grounds mere folly?

The museum has presented concerts of mostly contemporary music periodically, but in recent years these have been few and far between. Bang on a Can Teams Up With the Jewish Museum 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

And then there are shows that forcefully assert how contemporary they are—ones that deal frankly and openly with social issues in a way that feels pointed and sometimes even painful. American Crime's Second Season Was the Perfect Antidote to Fuller House 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

The new novel promises to find Bridget older if not wiser, and deeply embroiled in the contemporary virtual landscapes of internet dating, Twitter and other social media. Bridget Jones still mad about the boy 2013-05-28T14:29:09Z

In the Brockus Project Studio downtown, acclaimed contemporary choreographer Kyle Abraham is giving a master class as part of the ongoing Los Angeles Dance Festival. Choreographer Kyle Abraham on race, the MacArthur curse and dancing to Kendrick and Kanye 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

A peace-loving, antiwar counterculture, or its contemporary counterpart, was alive and well and waiting for me. ‘Hair’ 50 Years Later: Readers Tell Us When They Let the Sunshine In 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a blend of contemporary styles only slightly inflected by Russian flavors. Theater Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812’ at Kazino 2013-05-17T02:00:12Z

“Alice Springs does more than document the appearance of celebrities and anonymous contemporaries; she captures their charisma, their aura,” the foundation said, describing her work. Australian portrait photographer June Newton dies at 97 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z

But now with the growing realisation – compounded by the well-publicised detention of Ai Weiwei – that there are vital contemporary art scenes the world over, it is having its biggest ever moment in the UK. Ibrahim el-Salahi: from Sudanese prison to Tate Modern show 2013-07-03T18:30:01Z

There are contemporary museums harder to get to and more isolated than Glenstone, including one on a lonely island in Japan and another in a remote town in Texas. Perspective | This new museum doesn’t want Instagram or crowds. Does that make it elitist? 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

A second segment of the triennial, staged across Central Park in a large gallery of the New-York Historical Society, purports to strike up a conversation between that museum’s collection and contemporary Asian artists. A Festival of New Asian Art, Seeking a Direction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Certainly I wanted to look up and see myself reflected in a contemporary way. "The Old Guard": Gina Prince-Bythewood on superhero diversity, that ending & sequel possibilities 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z

"Love on the Underground", they say, will feature books from their "contemporary, Modern, medical and historical series". What are the best books for Valentine's Day? 2013-02-13T10:43:37Z

This novel is not merely a highly contemporary construct: it looks ahead. Looking Back at Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Circle of Reason’ 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

Compared to its sharper contemporaries, “Generation Q” is well-meaning pabulum—proof that conscientiousness alone is insufficient as a guiding force. “The L Word” Reboot Seeks to Absolve the Original’s Sins 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

At the same time, however, Mr. Lees stood somewhat apart from the marquee names of contemporary music. Benjamin Lees, Versatile Composer, Dies at 86 2010-06-04T05:51:00Z

So do several of the elite contemporary galleries that now serve as feeding tubes to those museums. 10 Galleries to Visit on the Upper East Side 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Adès conducted the American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 2017, and given the house’s unreliable continued support of contemporary work, however successful, it’s difficult to imagine a revival any time soon. Review: A Conductor Takes a Victory Lap With Her Orchestra 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

In Paris, it means restoring an old apartment to the Platonic ideal of Haussmannian grandeur and then bringing in contemporary furniture that somehow throws the plaster cornices and marble fireplaces into sharper relief. | Striking a Balance 2014-04-09T15:00:26Z

It is a gripping evening of theater, a rare contemporary play with real tragic vision, and easily the sharpest, most sophisticated political drama I have ever seen on stage. Review: Crown Jewel: King Charles III in London 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Breaking Bad's genius is in bringing us to the realisation that at its best, dramedy is a serious contemporary art form, and no laughing matter. The genius of Breaking Bad 2013-01-04T23:00:08Z

“I thought it would be an interesting jumping-off point for contemporary artists who work in the installation mode.” Three Artists Riff on Albert C. Barnes's Unique Way of Displaying Art 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. César often presents “Spell Reel” as a diptych, setting images of the vintage footage against contemporary scenes. Review: ‘Spell Reel’ Shows a Revolution Filmed, on the Leader’s Orders 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

He was beloved by his contemporaries and a small following of fans for his off-kilter beats — and he was not known to talk to journalists often. J Dilla Was a Revered Rap Producer. A New Book Deepens His Legacy. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

It’s impeccably contemporary, but no more dynamic than such wearable artworks as a century-old kimono adorned with bamboo and a peacock. In the galleries: You’ll definitely use your head at ‘Interface,’ at G Fine Art 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

At the lectern, Mr. Gehry, perhaps the most widely recognized contemporary American architect, recalled his early days in Los Angeles, wondering when or if Ms. Huxtable would notice. ArtsBeat: Remembering Ada Louise Huxtable 2013-06-05T12:43:23Z

“Often he’s described as shy,” said Ms. Golbin, the museum’s chief curator of modern and contemporary fashion and textiles. Front Row: The Dries Van Noten Exhibition in Paris 2014-03-06T00:30:31Z

“My Spy” could have used its espionage elements to channel a contemporary genre take on “Paper Moon,” with Coleman as a spiritual relative of Tatum O’Neal. ‘My Spy’ Review: A Secret Agent Gets Outsmarted 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

But one thing about “Dogtooth” is unambiguous: It is a rare thing, an acclaimed new film from a country not known for its contemporary cinema. film: Yorgos Lanthimos?s ?Dogtooth,? a Family Parable 2010-06-24T22:17:00Z

Shortly after graduating from Juilliard, he founded the Chamber Art Society, a New York ensemble devoted to performing contemporary music, including that of Stravinsky. Robert Craft, Stravinsky Adviser and Steward, Dies at 92 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

This exhibition includes around 80 of his works, alongside a smattering of pieces by his contemporaries. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

That imbalance is part of the bargain of contemporary theater, of course: never more so than in works of the European avant-garde. Review: ‘Five Easy Pieces,’ an Unnerving Alliance of Children and Art 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

“Musicians, if they choose to, can drive a tonal wedge through the noisome pestilence; the stench that often accompanies our contemporary societal lifestyles,” he said. Junie Morrison, a Funk Mastermind, Dies at 62 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Those pieces were clear precursors of much of the exuberant contemporary music of the second half, which the choir sang with infectious energy. Music in Review: SCHOLA CANTORUM DE VENEZUELA 2011-11-04T22:27:19Z

At the same time, he was deeply engaged with modern music and his own current creative endeavors, which placed him in the odd situation of being both a living legend and a vibrant contemporary artist. David Bowie’s “Earthling” is 20 years old today 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

The subject of the letter is a "most tiresome and prosy" Gothic novel entitled "Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villainy", published by her contemporary Rachel Hunter. Jane Austen letter critiquing 'prosy' contemporary at auction 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

That difficulty extends to much of contemporary art. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Buyers Wonder, Will It Appreciate Over Time? 2011-02-24T13:00:03Z

But supplying the contemporary market, which demanded new product every month, could be dizzying. How the Designer of Milly Broke Free 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

A lot of contemporary sketch is synonymous with shaggy slap-dashedness, but “A Black Lady Sketch Show” has a lusher and more realized aesthetic, which makes its segments dreamy and robust. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

The largest exhibition of contemporary art from China and Taiwan to be held in the UK to date is being staged in venues across Manchester. Britain's largest Chinese art exhibition 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Vying in the contemporary make-up category are "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," "Gone Girl," "Guardians of the Galaxy," "Interstellar" and "Nightcrawler." 'Into the Woods,' 'Guardians' among make-up and hair award nominees 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Camaradas, a bar and gallery space, serves traditional Puerto Rican tapas with a contemporary twist. Weekend Miser 2011-02-17T23:46:21Z

His characterization changed, too: While Mr. Burton’s is a headstrong naïf, the new Kunta is “a little tougher, a little edgier,” Mr. Wolper said, in what he hoped would be a more contemporary spin. ‘Roots,’ Remade for a New Era 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

A concurrent exhibition at the museum of new work by the contemporary painter R.H. Delacroix, Warhol and More Art to Look Forward to This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

I’m very bad at guessing which contemporary works will be seen as “great books,” and often I am deeply surprised which ones get the label over time. The Science Fiction Writer John Scalzi Readily Quits Reading 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

And this happened across all of Europe — Italians moved to those countries and brought with them contemporary Italian cuisine. Some commonly accepted "truths" about the origins of Italian food may actually be myths 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Design Miami/ is the global forum for design and satisfies the demand for high-end design while also highlighting modern and contemporary styles.  Roberto CoinVoice: Art Basel From A Local's Perspective: Culture, Creativity, And Design In Miami Beach 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

We're setting it in the same era, and community, but re-examining it with a contemporary lens on. 'Rent' with young, local cast, comes due at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre 2012-07-20T23:34:09Z

The commissioned scribblers are tasked with finding modern English equivalents for lines that might, on their surface, seem opaque to a contemporary eye or ear. Oregon’s theater trail to Washington 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

In his account, which an increasing number of contemporary historians have accepted, enslaved African-Americans were not given their freedom but took it. How “Westworld” Failed the Western 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

What gives this work its punch and its invigorating lifeblood is something more primal, though it’s rendered in utterly contemporary terms. Theater Review: ?Cockfight Play,? Directed by James Macdonald, at the Duke 2012-05-18T02:00:02Z

“This is a place used to earthquakes and typhoons,” said Lin Hwai-min, the founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theater, a contemporary dance troupe, which has delayed performances until later in the summer. Taiwan Was a Covid Haven for Performers. Then Cases Flared. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

Halloween descends on Kings County with this festival of mostly contemporary horror films. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Until recently, contemporary art was relatively restricted to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Using Wealth to Critique the Wealthy 2010-12-01T11:00:00Z

Handy Award for comeback blues album of the year, a pioneer award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and a Blues Music Award for best female contemporary blues artist and gotten two Grammy nominations. Bettye LaVette comes roaring back 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Best of all, an entire disc is devoted to contemporary artists who will likely pave the way for the next such compilation three decades from now. Box sets 2011, from Beach Boys to U2 2011-12-06T05:45:00Z

Hahn says while it is unusual to focus on encore repertoire, her interest reflects contemporary concert norms. Hilary Hahn unpacks new works in Seattle 2011-10-13T21:55:04Z

Also in Greenpoint, the contemporary fashion outpost is holding its monthly Backyard Bazaar on July 23 from noon to 6 p.m. Scouting Report 2011-07-14T04:37:03Z

But “Love”’s complicated sympathies extend beyond characterization, and its warts-and-all depiction of contemporary romance. “Love” and the Rise of the Bigendered Sitcom 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

In contemporary ballet such basis for a dance is very nearly its own genre. Dance Review: Agitated Rhythms and Other European Motions 2010-10-27T22:02:00Z

“We’re hoping for the art market to see this as great contemporary art and not just as outsider art,” said Jeffrey Gilman, president of the foundation. Bill Traylor’s Outsider Art Veers Into the Mainstream 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Antique and contemporary furnishings fill the 48 individually designed rooms, each with a terrace and now complete with updated bathrooms. From Botswana to Zambia, New Lodges, Resorts and Tours 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

She photographs the contemporary ruins of housing developments outside Tijuana that were never completed: concrete hulks in desert scrub. From the Border, the Whitney Biennial Asks What American Art Can Be 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

When the project was first announced in December, the Hollywood Reporter described it as "a western with contemporary humour, with one undercurrent being just how dangerous and painful life really was in the late 1800s". Charlize Theron to saddle up for new Seth MacFarlane western 2013-01-31T12:02:29Z

For the most part, the program was without theme, other than revealing the range of what is now possible with the contemporary string quartet. The quiet protest, amid bombs bursting, of Kronos Quartet 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

Opened in 2017, this shop sells locally roasted organic coffee, pastries, jewelry and contemporary and vintage clothing. 5 Places to Visit in Ketchum, Idaho 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

"It's extremely physicalized, which is a much more contemporary way to tell a story in this day and age. I really think it's a 'Romeo and Juliet' for ballet dancers of today." Alexei Ratmansky wants to reignite Romeo and Juliet's spark 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

Christie also used them far more frequently than any of her contemporaries. Agatha Christie and the Golden Age of Poisons 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

In “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” a contemporary bookend to ’s splashy ’80s film, Gekko is still buying and selling illusions. What Walls Say in ?Wall Street? 2010-09-29T20:10:00Z

That unlikely collision of comedy and dance is the idea driving "The Art of Falling," a collaboration between two Chicago cultural cornerstones, the Hubbard Street contemporary dance company and the Second City improv troupe. 'The Art of Falling' stage is big enough for Second City improv and Hubbard Street dance 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Led on a screen by the sweet, sassy and a bit goofy Being, we learned a sequence of five moves from Vogue Fem, the contemporary iteration of vogueing. Rashaad Newsome Pulls Out All the Stops 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

But my parents kicked off my lifelong relationship with Disney by checking us into the Contemporary Resort, which back then was indeed contemporary. In Transit Blog: Your Disney Questions, Answered 2013-01-29T21:04:28Z

Manes helped anchor the aesthetics of this movement by introducing the works of contemporary European artists like Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Klee and others to Czech artists. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Market Surges for Works by 20th-Century Prague Artists 2011-03-03T12:23:45Z

As a symbol, the curvaceous, contemporary building designed by XTU, a Parisian architecture firm, swirls up from the riverside not unlike the Guggenheim Museum flowing upward on staid Fifth Avenue. A Museum Bridges the Divide Between Two Bordeaux 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

A rotating selection of works from the collection will also be shown “in conversation” with contemporary art at the Castello di Rivoli Museum itself, which strikingly combines grand old spaces with state-of-the-art galleries. Largely Unseen $600 Million Collection Will Join Museum in Italy 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

It is one of only a few pieces of contemporary art purchased for permanent installation in the landmark 1895 building, since a circa-1900s John Singer Sargent mural. Duke Riley: Grand Master Trash 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

When she did emerge, she impressed the other fellows with her knowledge of, as the journalist Hua Hsu recalled, “pre-Christian systems of faith to contemporary Marxist scholarship to basic internet culture.” ‘It Was Like I’d Never Done It Before’: How Sally Rooney Wrote Again 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

It consists of six of Wautier’s paintings and eleven prints by her predecessors or contemporaries. For Centuries, Her Art Was Forgotten, or Credited to Men. No More. 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

An ecologically-minded boutique hotel with sleek contemporary rooms on the edge of downtown and within walking distance of a lot of good eats. Beyond tailgate ribs and ’tater salad: The burgeoning food scene in Athens, Ga. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Yet this British pop singer on the cusp didn’t flinch, blasting her irresistible “Future Nostalgia” LP into the world as most of her contemporaries were recoiling. Justin Bieber, pending COVID recovery, leads wave of pop stars coming to Seattle 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

Selling herself as “woke” is good marketing for a singer about to enter the second decade of her career, a transition that’s been extremely unkind to pop contemporaries from Jessica Simpson to Lily Allen. In the face of the Trump presidency, Katy Perry asserts her political self, but to what end? 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Volkov describes the process of rehearsing this music as not terribly different from preparing other challenging contemporary pieces. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

In addition to being solid investments, contemporary pieces worked well in his minimalist house, with its high ceilings, huge windows and white walls. Thanks to One Man’s Collection, Jakarta Now Has a World-Class Museum 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

Remember her dystopian “Hunger Games” contemporary dance that nabbed a near-perfect score a few weeks back? 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Willow's out, Sasha's in as competition twists, turns 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Slight, almost terse at barely over 100 pages, it resumes his earlier preoccupations and personal history, here set in contemporary Paris. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

As yet, online bidding hasn’t been much of a factor in the seven- and eight-figure prices that are bloating the totals of Christie’s and Sotheby’s auctions of postwar and contemporary art. Art Makes a Move Online 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sachs recalled a woman with “an incredibly powerful musical conviction,” who composed with a loose adherence to Schoenbergian technique, contemporary yet transparent. Juilliard Celebrates 32 Female Composers of the 20th Century 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The pocket-size tracts blend typical comic-book illustrations with a chatty, contemporary tone. Jack T. Chick, Cartoonist Whose Tracts Preached Salvation, Dies at 92 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

It is an uneven show, however; the emphasis on individuals over artworks — the driving force in contemporary collecting — is a less auspicious legacy of Picasso and Duchamp, two of the 20th century’s biggest art stars. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Once Removed: Sculpture’s Changing Frame of Reference’ at Yale University Art Gallery 2013-01-12T03:07:27Z

Andrew clearly sees Jonathan as something of a prodigy, if not actually a genius, and he's not alone among his contemporaries. Animal Magic: A Brother's Story by Andrew Barrow ? review 2011-02-26T00:07:33Z

Like many designers, Mr. Kurland emphasized that in contemporary films, rather than period pieces, costumes are more crucial to the storytelling process precisely because they are so familiar. Eye-Catching Costumes Rule the Oscar Race 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

The examples of Americana and modern and contemporary art and design there reflect the fairs he has created over the years. There’s No Business Like Art Fair Business for Sanford Smith 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

In addition to traditional clothing design, the exhibition includes displays of work by contemporary Pakistani designers, who toy with and reimagine the country’s traditions in their works. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Accepting the award for best urban contemporary album, the expectant mother of twins spoke about the intent and impact of “Lemonade.” Adele swept the Grammys. Don’t act so surprised. 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

The site also brings us links between scientific legends such as Emile Berliner and contemporary geniuses such as Ke$ha and will also furnish you – completely free – with a bogus reference to impress future employees. Internet picks of the week 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

When conservatives show up in contemporary plays, they are usually laughable blowhards, whining billionaires or troglodyte parents whose children scorn them. Review: In ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning,’ a Red-State Unicorn 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

The sojourn exposed him to Socialist Realism and upended his own style, which thereafter became more rounded and naturalistic, focused less on historical figures and more on contemporary images of work and toil. ‘Charles White: A Retrospective’ Review: Shimmering Black History Brought to Life 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

None of the major professional sports leagues was savvy about contemporary pop culture at the time. Super Bowl wasn't always the audience magnet it is now 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

For a new restaurant tucked under Manhattan’s FDR Drive, just below South Street Seaport on the East River, Wid Chapman Architects conceived a sleek space to complement the contemporary building designed by SHoP Architects. Industry Kitchen Opens Under Manhattan’s FDR Drive 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Still, there are enough signifiers of a larger story—a contemporary scene in a bar, the Mvskoke adoption of Christianity—to highlight Harjo’s two modes. Joy Harjo, the Poet of American Memory 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

The show’s title, “Los Angeles to New York,” pointedly reverses the usual assumption of contemporary American art’s directional flow. Where yellow means go, and go now: LACMA's standout show on '60s Dwan Gallery 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

The second, “Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art, 1965-1985,” was the first major exhibition dedicated to the work of contemporary Native American artists. Ralph T. Coe, 81, Advocate for Native American Art, Is Dead 2010-09-26T04:21:00Z

Collectors in the booming contemporary art world, the engine of the global art market, are voracious for fresh stars. The Art Market Pounces on Its Next Big Star. Now She Has to Hold On. 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

When Irish violinist and conductor Kevin Mallon began thinking about a program to lead with Seattle Baroque Orchestra, his instinct was to include contemporary dance. SBO conductor candidate Kevin Mallon leads Bach cantatas 2014-03-19T19:52:56Z

Its dancers, representing 13 countries and speaking 20 languages and dialects, were selected for their diverse movement backgrounds: ballet, hip-hop, contemporary. Review: A Sunny but Disappointing Take on the Tower of Babel 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

It’s my research, my keeping up with contemporary affairs. Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt talks truth and lies 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Blackhat is a good contemporary Michael Mann film with characteristic Michael Mann fingerprints all over it. ‘Blackhat,’ a Cyberthriller Starring Chris Hemsworth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Chronological time collapses in these lovely works, the ancient fused with the contemporary. Marisa Merz retrospective at the Hammer gives an overlooked female artist her due 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

“If we do this right, it’s a contemporary gangster movie,” Mr. Lin recalled thinking when he persuaded Warner Brothers to acquire Mr. Lieberman’s series four years ago. Sean Penn in Ruben Fleischer’s ‘Gangster Squad’ 2013-01-04T14:56:24Z

Unlike his contemporary Bud Powell, he didn't sound as if he was delivering a piano version of Parker's skimming sax lines. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z

Then, in 2010, the Trinity Wall Street job came along, giving him the ability to program and perform a wide range of music, both baroque and contemporary, in the heart of New York City. A polymath in D.C.: The long ascendancy of conductor-composer Julian Wachner

One of the least likely answers to that conundrum would be Ed Sheeran’s muscular pop-folk, one of the most successful contemporary modes of British pop. Critic’s Notebook: One Direction Rides Boy Band Wave With ‘Take Me Home’ 2012-11-14T17:42:27Z

It is rich in feline detail, plot twists and contemporary ills. Fiction for older children – reviews 2013-07-27T13:00:00Z

Yet these days, contemporary architects — and their clients — are under stricter than ever budgetary, environmental and aesthetic constraints. | In Architecture, Small is Big 2014-04-21T13:00:50Z

Rogers had a keen eye for fashions in dress and furnishing, so his works had a contemporary immediacy. Art Review: ‘John Rogers: American Stories’ at New-York Historical Society 2012-11-08T22:14:24Z

Jack narrates in a voice not unlike that of Burr’s standup persona, responding to the issues that confound the contemporary straight white male with profane non-sequiturs. ‘Old Dads’ Review: Bill Burr Rails Against Modern Life as a Dad 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z

Dishes at Waypoint, which opened in August, are both contemporary and comfy. A Boston Area Restaurant Both Contemporary and Comfy 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

But Enheduanna’s glory lies in her words, some of which address startlingly contemporary concerns. In Search of Enheduanna, History’s First Named Author 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

These goals have little to do with the skills emphasized by contemporary academic standards. Will high school "classics" be replaced? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, 11 days before the first round of the election, he spent an hour touring the newly renovated Palais de Tokyo, a museum here dedicated to contemporary and mostly French art. ArtsBeat: Sarkozy Praises "Magic" of the New Palais de Tokyo, Opening Thursday 2012-04-11T15:26:57Z

Many of his contemporaries, including artists in the show’s first gallery, acted with comparable resolve. Art Review: ?The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China? at the Met Museum - Review 2011-09-08T22:36:02Z

The chronological arc is wide, from pre-Columbian gold to contemporary performance. A West Coast Spotlight on Latino Artists Leads the Fall Art Season 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

Then he updated them to create contemporary looks with just a flashback to the past, as in a cut-away coat with tiny patches of cross-stitch-like tapestry. Special Report: Looking for a New Elegance 2010-06-25T17:28:00Z

The contemporary artists in the show often comment directly on past works. Art, science, eco-concerns meet in ‘Vanishing Ice’ exhibit 2014-01-17T22:53:03Z

Rick Owens sees his runways as more of a blank canvas than many of his contemporaries do. On the Runway Blog: At Rick Owens, Not Your Usual Models 2014-03-01T22:31:29Z

He decided to stick to using two mallets, like Jackson — not four, like most contemporary vibes virtuosos. How the Vibraphonist Joel Ross Keeps Finding Fresh Rhythms 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

For the first time a sackful of the seeds is to be sold officially at a Sotheby's auction of contemporary art next month. Seeds for sale 2011-01-26T17:25:45Z

But this version is tailored to contemporary sensibilities, introducing a diverse cast of characters. In a New Series, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ Gets More Worldly 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

"It may be the most important painting from the second half of the 20th century," said Tom Lerner, head of modern and contemporary art research at the Getty Conservation Institute. Getty Center to restore key Jackson Pollock work 2012-06-26T20:04:11Z

Ms. Zhukova and Mr. Abramovich collect contemporary art from other countries that the Garage may one day house, but for the moment their art collection will not be melded with the museum’s holdings, she said. Russia’s Expanded Garage Musem Aims to Be a Global Art Player 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Though never enslaved, Asian labourers were treated harshly: according to a contemporary estimate, at least 1,200 died building the transcontinental railway. Tiger ancestors 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Quite a few small-scale bronze sculptures are integrated into the exhibition, tracing back to the popular contemporary tradition of flowing, Greek-inspired costumes and nature-based settings that Dini describes in the exhibition catalogue. Motor City exhibition ‘Dance’ shows how motion has long inspired American art 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

These composers were not just Beethoven’s contemporaries, but also knew him personally, competed with him for attention and even published his music. Celebrating Beethoven’s Birthday by Not Playing Beethoven 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

Learn more about the exciting lifestyle of the contemporary writer! Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today? 2013-01-23T18:08:51Z

It also may be a crisis in the aesthetics of contemporary architecture that is driving more firms to think about the interrelated issues of sustainability and healthy design. City planners are increasingly aware of health benefits of clean, living landscapes

It may be the contemporary superlative of choice, but awesome has a long history. SXSW 2011: A crash guide to 'awesome' 2011-03-15T18:03:00Z

Tatyana Merenyuk is the designer and maker of a line of bridal dresses that she said is contemporary with vintage inspirations. Brooklyn Bridal. It’s a Thing. And a Place to Find Your Dress. 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

His works, polished and contemporary, are energetic through each individual body and in striking ensembles; and they often ask gender questions, with both opposite-sex and same-sex pairings. ‘Carousel’ Dances Are a New Feather in the Enigmatic Justin Peck’s Cap 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Translated from ancient Greece to contemporary New York, the tale drew its dry humor from the contrast. Review: ‘The Lightning Thief,’ a Far Cry From Olympus 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

“Any artist, even a contemporary artist, must be familiar with traditional art, the old art masters,” he says. His parents wanted him to run the farm, but he had other ideas 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

His monologue is at once rambling and riveting, his words backed by music that blurs distinctions between jazz and contemporary classical styles. Review: Librettos and Ariosos Meet Video at Anthology Film Archives 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

It was the first time I read anything contemporary that felt like it was made for me. In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ They Perfect the Art of Deception 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

A contemporary work by artist Alexandria Tarver holds court at one end. Chef Michael White Debuts a New Manhattan Restaurant 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

But in 2005, he and Christine Cox, then both dancers with Pennsylvania Ballet, decided that Philadelphia needed a contemporary ballet troupe. Ballet v6.0, a New Festival, Makes Its Debut at the Joyce 2013-08-05T21:52:17Z

The Philharmonic and Lincoln Center have not announced what their third opera might be, but indicated that it would be contemporary or modern. Lincoln Center and New York Philharmonic to Collaborate on Operas 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Lou focuses on emotions and romances placed in rather edgy settings of contemporary urban China. 'Blind Massage' director Lou Ye talks of film challenges, China market 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

“The Purge” franchise follows a long tradition of American movies that couch the fears and anxieties of contemporary culture in allegory or simply reflect them right back to us. When bloody horror movies are actually about . . . politics 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

The Dynasty and Shangri-La collections, with designs adapted from Natori’s home and fashion archive, bear the company’s trademark Eastern sensibility with a contemporary twist. Natori Home Launches First-Ever Rug Collection 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

Her privileged life and her career as a prosecutor constitute a more complicated narrative than the one contemporary readers may expect of an African-American woman who lived during the first half of the 20th century. The Real-Life Heroine Who Inspired a Character on ‘Boardwalk Empire’ 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

These white, glass-box, contemporary spec houses are typically designed to maximize views and attract the expanding class of global billionaires flocking to the area. What to Do With a Multimillion-Dollar Megamansion? They Have Some Ideas. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

“Extreme Nature!” the exhibition’s title exclaims, a description that can seem familiar from its frequent association with contemporary climatic phenomena. ‘Extreme Nature!’ Review: Horror and Beauty in the World Around Us 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Reynolds also said he was in favor of selling some of the art “nobody ever sees” to raise money that would primarily be used to purchase contemporary artwork. Star witness for foes of Corcoran Gallery breakup entertains court with many tales

Since then I’ve done contemporary music but not premieres, and certainly not an opera premiere. ‘I Savor Everything’: A Soprano’s Star Turn at the Met Opera 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

Cousins coolly repudiates parochial Anglo-Hollywood bias; he juxtaposes contemporary films with ones from the distant past, and places emphasis on cinema from Iran, India and Africa. Cannes 2013: A Story of Children and Film – review 2013-05-17T16:25:01Z

And it's one for me, too; I've been attending the festival since 2001 and every year look forward to its relaxed pace, intriguing mix of contemporary and classic films and unique personality. Preview: Port Townsend Film Festival 2011-09-14T22:03:06Z

Armando Teixeira, who has been playing in bands and as a solo artist for more than 25 years, is one of the most talented contemporary musicians and producers of modern Portuguese music. January's best new music from across the MAP 2011-01-15T12:41:00Z

Nine dancers come and go, exploring the space in slow-quick rhythms and a fairly generic contemporary ballet style. Review: At New York City Ballet, a Too Quiet Debut 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

In a city that is both Asia and Europe, dilapidated and vibrantly contemporary, ancient and modern, the connecting thread, for Mr. Piano, is what has defined this city for centuries. Istanbul Modern Reopens in its New, Renzo Piano-Designed Home 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

You can still find typos in contemporary editions of the books, for goodness sake. All is well with Narnia 2010-12-13T16:22:00Z

“Anthem” is woven together using a number of contemporary threads, mostly seen through the eyes of teenagers who are battling to save themselves and one another. Noah Hawley Keeps Changing Lanes 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z

In more contemporary kitchens, it’s beef cooked slowly with broth and lots of spices. “Modern chicken has no flavor” — let’s make it in a lab 2013-03-17T16:00:00Z

One way to think of contemporary pop stars is as de facto social media influencers. The Viral Spiral 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

I occasionally wished “Too Bright to See” was in something other than the earnest first-person present tense that so litters contemporary books for children, but this is a small cavil. This Coming-of-Age Novel Features a Girl on the Cusp of Manhood 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Posen, who has been giving her advice on her contemporary clothing line due out this fall, said, “Kelly has come to have this incredible understanding of fashion, both the craft and the humor.” Kelly Osbourne, From Party Girl to Fashion Sage 2014-02-26T23:11:52Z

The contemporary and retro elements are unified by Ferrand’s detailed compositions, precise rendering and graphic-novel style, which suggests Charles Burns if he turned from pen-and-ink to acrylic paint. Review | In the galleries: The past invades the present in paintings by Gregory Ferrand 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Out goes the poetry, more or less, to be replaced by prose dialogue stuffed with contemporary vernacular and quite a few nice jokes. Review: ‘The Odyssey’ Takes a Populist Turn as a Musical 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z

“The Global Africa Project” at the Museum of Arts & Design tries to survey this pervasiveness, in terms of contemporary visual endeavors of all kinds: jewelry, fashion, architecture, basketry, ceramics, painting, utilitarian design. Art Review: Visual Culture Out of Africa 2010-12-02T23:49:00Z

He also said he was comfortable with Mr. Gilbert’s emphasis on contemporary programming. Frank Huang to Succeed Glenn Dicterow as New York Philharmonic Concertmaster 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Taylor wrote in his memoir, “Private Domain,” that “Seven New Dances” put him on the map as a choreographer, distinct from his teacher, Graham, and his near contemporary, Merce Cunningham. The Everyday Avant-Gardist: Paul Taylor’s First Principles 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Granted, to some degree I invited this nosiness with the subject matter of Big Brother: obesity and our complex contemporary relationship to food. Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z

Isaac Asimov was inspired by Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – and by contemporary global politics – to create his own political epic. Saci Lloyd's top 10 political books 2013-03-15T16:24:50Z

Mr. Gurney’s writing never brought him the fame and wealth of contemporaries like Edward Albee and Neil Simon. A Patrician Older Gentleman Morphs Into an Angry Young Man 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Moore's trademark aphorisms and quirky observations meld unforgettably in a sweeping portrait of contemporary America. Expert view: Critics greet Lacuna's win with respectful disappointment 2010-06-09T19:45:00Z

But an outfit far from Hollywood has sought to recapture the vintage hand-drawn spirit while injecting some contemporary flair. Movie Posters are the Business of Mondo 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z

They made Mr. Campbell’s pursuit of the contemporary a condition of hiring. How to Fix the Met: Connect Art to Life 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

The young Mr. Metropoulos is skilled, according to his corporate biography, in developing marketing campaigns that “connect brands with contemporary audiences and regain relevance, both in the marketplace and pop culture.” Meet the New Owner of the Playboy Mansion 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z

And between now and then, several well-known contemporary poets, among them Billy Collins, Marie Ponsot and Jean Valentine, the New York State poet laureate, will offer seminar-style personal takes on her work. Art: ?Emily Dickinson?s Garden,? at New York Botanical Garden 2010-04-29T23:07:00Z

His duet with Lalah Hathaway on the makeup song, “Insanity,” has urban contemporary hit single written all over it. Catch Gregory Porter at the Moore on June 17 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

Across the gold-and-russet sandstone canyon, the brawny rock formations sprouted contemporary art: an iridescent spaceshiplike sculpture, a glinting metal tunnel, a scattering of brightly painted spheres. Art Rises in the Saudi Desert, Shadowed by Politics 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

His irreverent paintings pull no punches, whether he’s exploring contemporary politics or the global legacy of colonialism. Two Artists, Continents Apart, and a Shared Language of Struggle 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

What students are demanding now is an education that will be both more aligned with our contemporary, increasingly diverse world, and an education that will distribute more evenly the power education allots. Quit assuming students protesting racism on campus are spoiled whiners! 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

Chris Cunningham is a very contemporary kind of pop artist, an almost invisible presence whose influence on the mainstream is virally pervasive. Centre stage 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z

Also at IA&A, the collage-paintings of Andrea Limauro’s “Mare Nostrum” draw on historical styles, but the subject of the show is as contemporary as the orange life jacket and silver emergency blanket it incorporates. Review | In the galleries: Tiny contemporary monuments to transient phenomena 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Everywhere, the past seems to be leaping into the future — not least when the ancient figurines of the Commedia dell’Arte are re-dressed by contemporary fashion designers. Nymphenburg Porcelain Gets a Fresh New Look 2010-04-26T14:01:00Z

Marrying a classic midcentury-modern silhouette with a distinctly contemporary spirit, the chair embodies the Moser ethos of integrity and precision in both design and manufacture. Thos. Maker Teams with an Emerging Designer 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, Ma, who has been on the contemporary forefront of stretching the cello’s theatrical and repertory possibilities, remained conventional in a recital program with pianist Kathryn Stott that took no chances. At USC and Disney Hall, finding the body and soul of the cello 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

The usual categorical language surrounding contemporary art breaks down. E. Jane Signals a Vibe Shift in What ‘Performance’ Means 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

He might have selected any option from the banquet of contemporary pieties and shown Finch stomping it with her sensible brogues. In Julian Barnes’s New Novel, a Teacher’s Pet Becomes Obsessed 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

A sleek atmosphere keeps the spotlight on contemporary digital arts, but elements of the initial design are preserved as a reverent nod to its past. In Transit: An Old Paris Venue Is Reborn and Goes Digital 2011-03-02T11:00:39Z

Though much more could have been done, we get a sense of how contemporary slavery differs from what had come before. Exhibition Review: An Unseen Evil Still Ensnaring Countless Souls 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z

In November the museum will inaugurate a wing devoted to contemporary art and to the Art of the Americas. 2010-01-15T06:06:00Z

But some of Fletcher’s contemporary accounts of the Smiths do really take you there. Paint a Vulgar Picture: A Fan’s Notes on a Biography of The Smiths 2013-01-16T13:00:19Z

“They were unique among contemporary collectors in that their interest wasn’t just about art,” Mr. Colacello said. The Great Interview Magazine Caper 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

Dr. Pickett finds himself involved in a very contemporary malpractice prosecution but also spends a lot of time hunting and fishing and thinking about the old days. Back at the Ranch, Thomas McGuane Has a New Novel 2010-10-20T16:23:00Z

It is to me anyway, though all of these pieces can still be found, and to a sensibility more contemporary than mine, presumably have the same longevity as a book. Writing a book isn't supposed to be fun 2013-03-28T11:04:05Z

Ms. Tunis, dressed by Ms. Orling in a contemporary outfit in contrast to the military uniforms the others wear, also flits nimbly through the thickets of language, and sings with a similar bright, clear tone. Review: ‘Futurity,’ in a Civil War Setting, Wishes for Today’s Technology 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

“Mona portrays Native people in a very modern and contemporary and also a very honest way,” he said. After a Long and Painful Absence, Writing Her Way Home Again 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Fortunately for anyone interested in contemporary China, Mr. Liao ignored that advice. Books of The Times: Liao Yiwu’s ‘For a Song and a Hundred Songs’ 2013-07-02T21:08:39Z

His taste in shoes matches his penchant for wearing throwback touches like flower pins in his lapels and more contemporary short pants. At Midsummer Night Swing, Shoes Speak Volumes 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Compared to run-of-the-mill contemporary rugs, he added, “It’s just more interesting.” Fuzzy Thinking: Artist-Designed Rugs 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

They’re nerds all grown up into weathered rebels, with the self-awareness required of contemporary heroes chased with a surviving, somewhat submerged idealism. Rewatching the X-Files: my 50-episode binge 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

The gallery, located in a former warehouse of the ancient port of Jaffa, offers a broad look at Palestinian contemporary art. Special Report: Museums: Dialogue by Way of Art in Israel 2011-03-22T17:19:14Z

Matthew Connors, 42, likens his position as a photographer to the unreliable narrator in contemporary fiction. What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

“There is a lot of contemporary parallel here,” Mr. Ayer said, referring to soldiers who confront death in Afghanistan, for instance, even as American engagement there is supposed to be ending. ‘Fury,’ Starring Brad Pitt, a Raw Look at Warfare 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

It so happens, too, that Godwin has cut an incisive path through “Timon,” showing us the manner in which a play about money can fuse an Elizabethan vision with a contemporary one. Review | ‘Timon of Athens’ is tricky Shakespeare. A fearless director gets it right. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

The marketing of modern and contemporary art from Latin America is one of the success stories of the globalist decades, giving a once-niche interest a presence in big North American museums. Best Art Books of 2020 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

In reality, Turkish contemporary art runs the gamut of mediums and ideas. Voyages: The Istanbul Art-Boom Bubble 2012-02-10T17:20:36Z

Mr. Ashworth said that the idea was “tip the scales a bit, to take the romance out of its mythical setting and watch Cio-Cio San make her choice as a contemporary woman would.” A Radical Redo for ‘Madama Butterfly’ — to Save It? 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Still, for all of the new realism of Polish cinema, even “Reverse” succumbs to the very contemporary need, in this age of insecurity, for myths and heroes, both in Poland and beyond. Polish Film's Amoral New Wave 2010-06-14T12:30:00Z

Mixing classical music, improv, jagged funk, famous pop songs and affectionately non-ironic bursts of old-school swing, The Bad Plus have become one of the most popular piano trios in contemporary music over the past decade. Lana Del Rey, Mikal Cronin, The Bad Plus: this week's new live music 2013-05-11T05:00:15Z

We are, you see, meant to be viewing this story of love, lust, vengeance and betrayal in 18th-century France through a couple of prisms: a contemporary one and a self-consciously theatrical one. Theater Review: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Opens at Lincoln Center 2013-07-12T22:07:59Z

One school-gym performance after another of “Bless the Lord” and “Save the People,” among other hard-to-shake tunes, helped American religion accept contemporary music, even welcome it. Broadway Revival of ?Godspell? 2011-11-04T14:59:10Z

In terms of grandeur and bombast, the Icelandic quartet ably matches and often exceeds that of its contemporaries. Lollapalooza Day 3: Jack White, Florence + the Machine, At the Drive-In and the amazing Amadou and Mariam 2012-08-06T06:00:00Z

“I’m looking for visionary artists with one foot in the roots and one foot in contemporary music and contemporary thinking,” says label founder and president Bruce Iglauer. Young bluesmen take up the torch for a musical tradition

Honored and humble about being recognized, Guy says he saw his contemporaries as better guitarists, so he had to find his own style. Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy looks back on a special career 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

As Mr. Custot puts it, “Art & Design stops where Frieze begins,” meaning that contemporary art of the past three decades is not admitted. Showcasing Modern Masters 2010-10-15T13:30:00Z

This year’s installment also celebrates a Weill contemporary, the composer Ernst Krenek. What's on This Week Around the World 1464-09-25T05:00:00Z

She critiques the unthinkingness of contemporary choreography, charging that it veers aimlessly from unimaginative imitation to strident innovations usually in the form of gymnastic or melodramatic excess, accentuated by overzealous lighting and special effects. Fox’s populist dance spectacle 2012-09-18T18:08:00Z

Kudos created a groundbreaking series in Spooks 10 years ago that challenged convention with its topical, fast-paced, contemporary style ... BBC's Spooks axed after a decade 2011-08-10T23:01:09Z

But it’s not the crude metrics or race and gender that matter, rather, it’s the utterly new narrative of contemporary art that emerges from the museum’s conscious and thorough effort at inclusivity. Perspective | Is Crystal Bridges, in rural Arkansas, the most woke museum in America? 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

In that sense, it highlights the plight of contemporary consciousness, straining to assimilate vast amounts of noisy, complicated and contradictory input. ‘Sites of Reason’ Underway at Museum of Modern Art 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

He would be surprised by how rarely this theme is explored in contemporary British . Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z

In contemporary news media, the mere fact of an accusation, as scurrilous or dubious as it may be, becomes news in itself by the fact of being a good story. The Reductive Narrative Tactics of “Author: The JT LeRoy Story” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Don’t break stride for killjoy contemporary questions of race, gender, socioeconomics and unconscious editorial bias in the shaping of historical narrative and maybe it is. That’s Entertainment! Here’s a Dishy History of Hollywood. 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Dozing one night in Chloe’s bed, Alice is spirited away to an alternate universe in which the fanciful figures of the Carroll books are transformed into groovy, multiethnic contemporary equivalents. | 'Wonderland': There?s No Place Like Queens 2011-04-18T02:01:04Z

Today, the fact that the Left is winning the contemporary culture wars is widely acknowledged by the Right, whose conservative laments over losing the culture wars are commonplace. They’ll always lose the culture wars: The right loves fighting lost causes– but liberals keep winning 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

Portraits by Patrick Beilman of two of the couple’s four sons are above the cabinet, and a cast-iron carousel face is above the contemporary range hood. Kitchens by the AD 100 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is not really a reinterpretation of history; it overturns the idea of history, making it subservient to the claims of contemporary identity politics. Critic?s Notebook: To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display 2010-12-28T23:04:19Z

The inaugural event at the new HQ, a contemporary art evening sale, will be held on October 15 and will include works by Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, and Andy Warhol, to name a few. Phillips opens its new European headquarters in London 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

It’s a difficult, often rewarding collection that plays out something like an electroacoustic opera, using trenchant words and queasy sounds to diagnose the ills of a contemporary racial dystopia, and to outline its historical precedents. Live Jazz: 3 May Standouts, From Sullivan Fortner to Dana Murray 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

She also won the contemporary blues female artist and the contemporary blues album awards. Copeland, Ingram among winners of Blues Music Awards 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

The pieces are displayed amid brightly colored graphics taken from courts, fields, and stadiums that decorate the galleries like contemporary hieroglyphics. Jaime Hayon Opens “Game On,” an Exhibition of Sports-Inspired Furnishings at Galerie Kreo in Paris and London 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

An exhibition earlier this year called “States of Becoming” offered work from 17 contemporary artists of African descent who have lived and worked in the United States. A Harlem Institution Reimagines How Americans Interact With the African Continent 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

It’s my friendship group, it’s my contemporaries, it’s my families, it’s my everything. Sondheim and the City: In a Rethought ‘Company,’ a Woman Wavers 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

It delivered Woolf, perhaps more vividly and abruptly than her male contemporaries, to the hard face of the truth, of what we are capable of doing. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

It claims significant real estate at nearly every major U.S. music festival and influences nearly every aspect of contemporary youth culture. Richie Hawtin's CNTRL series lifts the hood on how EDM is made and played 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

As part of its strategy to attract millennials, the company introduced the more contemporary Tiffany HardWear collection in an agreement with pop star Lady Gaga earlier this year. Breakfast at Tiffany's: At long last, Fifth Avenue store opens a cafe 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Even though this is a period piece, we still wanted to make it look, feel contemporary with what’s happening in the world we live in today. For Spike Lee, ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Is a Period Piece Best Viewed Now 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Growth overall was driven by buoyant post-war and contemporary art sales, and the report noted the trend for high-priced works in this sector. ArtsBeat: Art Sales Grew Last Year, Especially in U.S., Report Says 2014-03-12T20:02:19Z

But the theater’s modest scale certainly speaks to the diminished standing of the adult theater in contemporary society. The last (porn) picture shows: Once dotted with dozens of adults cinemas, L.A. now only has two 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

The museum features more than 2,000 figurines from around the world, both historical and contemporary. Thanks to Netflix, the Mediterranean city of Marseille gets an overdue close-up 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Island seafood and produce fill the walk-ins at contemporary Honolulu restaurants like MW or the Pig and the Lady, but they rarely reach the island of Manhattan. Restaurant Reviews: Noreetuh and the Eddy in the East Village 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Ansari had built a reputation as an ardent feminist and amateur dating guru, teaming up with a sociologist in 2015 to publish “Modern Romance,” a contemporary treatise on the trials of love. Aziz Ansari’s New Standup Tour Is a Cry Against Extreme Wokeness 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Drawing on both the contradictions and the richness of his heritage, Tavaziva combines African and contemporary dance and music in this new double-bill. This week's new dance 2011-03-19T00:06:51Z

The contraction was actually even more severe given that the 2016 figures included Sotheby’s June sales of contemporary art in London, which last year were held in July, in the third quarter. How Sotheby’s Found a Path to Higher Profits 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

When Schweitzer turns to contemporary opera, she welcomes not only what one critic called the “needle-stuck-in-the-groove quality” of Philip Glass’s minimalist music but also the bizarre productions of well-loved operas from the past. How ‘A Mad Love’ of Opera Has Played Out From 17th-Century Mantua to 21st-Century New York 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

But between the boutiques are little oases of contemporary art and reservoirs of local history. Art Trek: A Critic’s Gallery Crawl Through SoHo and TriBeCa 2014-04-04T17:47:11Z

Beckman is one of six artists whose work is new to the Broad’s collection of postwar and contemporary art. The Broad acquires 29 new works, keeping an eye on local artists 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

“There’s a positivity in the financial markets, and that is helping,” said Francis Outred, Christie’s head of postwar and contemporary art in Europe. Auction Sales Down at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, in a Challenging 2016 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

More and more, artists from outside disciplines are being coaxed to opera, perhaps as a way to keep the art form vital and contemporary. Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists’ New Work for the Opera Stage 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Rooms are modern with contemporary photography and whimsical touches like a painted set of eyes peering down at the bed. Chasing Balzac: Uncovering the Intimate Belle Epoque Hotels of Paris 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

“The subjects weren’t so much participants as they were treated like props to be used in the art pieces,” says Madeline Eschenburg, a doctoral candidate at the University of Pittsburgh who studies contemporary Chinese art. China Embraces Art for the People, by the People 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

“L’Wren was a talented and passionate designer with a keen eye for detail… She created beautiful pieces that were the epitome of elegance and sophistication, yet with a contemporary feel.” Christie’s sale highlights L’Wren Scott creations for Jagger 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

So what do contemporary poets know, or seem to know, about war? What Does a Poet Know About War? 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

With the local police baffled, Jack Whicher, a detective from the Metropolitan police, arrives to investigate and, with the contemporary testimonies carefully reassembled, we follow his investigation. Guardian bookclub: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale 2012-12-28T22:55:11Z

But following the contestant Marko Germar’s impassioned contemporary number, the group was surprised to see both him and Lady Gaga in tears. So You Think You Can Judge Dance 2011-08-07T02:00:07Z

The festival will be a contemporary exploration of the enormous creativity of the region, inspired by the return of the gospels. Treasured north east gospels are on their way home - just don't miss them 2012-07-06T12:30:00Z

And “Toni Erdmann,” proceeding in a perfectly straightforward manner, from one awkward, heartfelt, hilarious scene to the next, wraps itself around some of the thorniest complexities of contemporary reality. Review: In ‘Toni Erdmann,’ Dad’s a Prankster Trying to Jolt His Conformist Daughter 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

His compositions were admired by his contemporaries — they even caught the ear of Bach — but not often played. Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum Perform a Mass 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Rickman put his suave, insinuating tones to tremendous use, turning in a definitive performance as the contemporary Eurovillain and providing generations of Brit stage actors with endless work in Hollywood blockbusters. Alan Rickman: 10 key performances 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

It focuses on the story of a shell-shocked Indian soldier, but also tackles contemporary political issues. Dance star Akram Khan prepares for swansong tour 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images Gritty contemporary fiction has been around for a while and I'm certainly not claiming to have invented this genre. If you like books like these: dark teen reads 2012-05-31T10:17:09Z

The art historian and critic Claire Bishop told me, in an e-mail, that Parreno’s major contribution to contemporary art has been his interest in “dealing with the exhibition as an apparatus.” An Art of Loopholes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

In a story collection there is little room for error, and their presence mars this timely exploration of an otherwise fascinating, endlessly contemporary subject. Lionel Shriver on things that possess their owners 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

This model of the conforming orthodox yard, for all its neatness, is seen by many contemporary gardeners not just as a stylistic anachronism but also an environmental wasteland. Converting a suburban yard into a wildlife oasis, one plant at a time 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

But their real power is still onstage, with a set full of ebbs and flows that felt both hypnotic and dramatic, with none of the jarring drops or dumb buildups of so many contemporaries. Electric Daisy Carnival closes out with dreamy exhaustion 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

This is a unique opportunity to join together the historic and the contemporary; to do away with the artificial divide caused by different funding streams and create a more coherent cultural offer. Arts Council takes over libraries, with budgets slashed 2010-12-09T15:56:00Z

It is part of the “Season of Afghanistan,” which also includes “Within a Thread’s Breath: Textile Creations by Afghan Women,” examining the country’s contemporary textile tradition. Treasures of Afghan History, Art and Culture 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

It has always amused me that contemporary music is exempted from the memorization requirement. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z

The result is a powerful — and painful — journey through a contemporary version of hell. Review | Don Winslow’s ‘The Border’ offers a harrowing look at the war on drugs 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Since then, Rubin moved to Los Angeles and co-founded Fade to Mind, a studio collective and record label known for delivering a ghostly mix of contemporary R. & B. and underground club music. Listening Booth: Kingdom’s “What Is Love” 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

An array of Australian-based artists will be part of this multivenue show, which is a celebration of the country’s contemporary scene. What's on This Week Around the World 1456-02-22T05:00:00Z

Poet Claudia Rankine was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship grant for her work that engages with contemporary American culture, particularly issues of race. Poet Claudia Rankine says of her MacArthur, 'the prize is being given to the subject' of race in America 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Film and radio footage will also be on show, along with a section of the exhibition featuring portraits of Beaton himself by his contemporaries. Photo exhibition to mark jubilee 2011-06-09T10:58:42Z

Cream walls are trimmed in red, the better to show off a fireplace framed in contemporary American tiles made to look as if they’d been rescued from some grand art nouveau mansion. ‘They’ll have to carry me out of here in a box’ 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

The actor and the director, Robert Richmond, said they were struck by the contemporary connections that might be made in portraying a man’s complex relationship with wealth. Perspective | Dumbing down Shakespeare: Are Americans too intellectually lazy to appreciate his genius? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

While the other characters in the play are garbed in traditional Shakespearean attire — the men in doublets and hose, the women in dark-hued period dresses — Mariah Gale’s Juliet is clearly Romeo’s contemporary. Theater Review: Love?s Flames Amid a City in Flames 2011-07-12T21:27:37Z

A related series of lectures and special events, featuring contemporary designers, including Mr. Crouwel himself, will be taking place through July 1. In Transit: At London Museum, Fonts and Other Designs 2011-04-25T10:01:04Z

Lee is a contemporary of Jackson's - born a year before the singer. Lee's 'love letter' to Jackson 2012-09-19T00:12:21Z

“Miss Juneteenth” isn’t about that history but the contemporary African American struggle to remain in the middle class. New this week: Neil Young, ‘Miss Juneteenth,’ Padma Lakshmi 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

Ms. Ruf, a German curator who has worked at both small and large contemporary art institutions, now works in Amsterdam, which has seen the direct benefits of an expanding museum sector. At Museums, Maybe It’s Time for ‘De-growth’ 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

If the number set to Queen’s “Bicycle Race” were set to classical music — say, to Shostakovich — instead, it might be easier to recognize as an exemplary construction of contemporary ballet. Trey McIntyre Puts His Company to Rest at Jacob’s Pillow 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

She’s an accomplished contemporary romance author, and every time I hear she’s buying sticky notes to plot her next book, I get excited. Romance novels to read this summer 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

In later years he incorporated elements of contemporary concert music and composed symphonic and chamber works. Yusef Lateef, Innovative Jazz Saxophonist and Flutist, Dies at 93 2013-12-24T19:55:27Z

“In Australia and elsewhere in the world, it’s not; it’s understood as a dynamic contemporary expression of a culture.” A Showcase for the Abundance and Breadth of Indigenous Performance 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

The poems generated by this profound engagement with the conundrums of human existence constitute a body of work like no other in contemporary poetry. Czeslaw Milosz: One of the most fascinating poets of the past 100 years 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Tate Modern is also a unique cultural institution, a standard-bearer for quality contemporary art and activities. Ai Weiwei: China excluded its people from the Olympics. London is different 2012-07-25T16:47:53Z

Traditional recipes for cannoli shells called for using lard in the dough; contemporary recipes tend to substitute butter, which is easier to find. Nobody doesn’t like cannoli — unless they’ve had a soggy one 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

Like contemporaries Little Richard and Chuck Berry, Domino was a black performer whose music crossed over to white audiences and helped shape early rock. Fats Domino, rock 'n' roll pioneer, dead at 89 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

Such sweeping assertions of American narrow-minded venality almost seem aimed at contemporary political debates; this would certainly be in keeping with the museum’s declared ambitions. ‘Americans and the Holocaust’ Review: What We Could Have Done 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

In Colchester, the opening exhibition will mix historic and contemporary work rooted in the area's history. Turner Contemporary joins the regional arts charge 2011-04-08T15:13:24Z

Anderson and Asa Butterfield play mother and son, each exploring the contemporary sexual landscape. Netflix’s ‘Sex Education’ is a trans-Atlantic love letter 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Gernes, a Joseph Beuys contemporary, spent much of his career teaching and designing architectural color schemes for hospitals and other institutions. Art in Review: BIRGIR ANDRESSON AND POUL GERNES: ?Bolt Out of the Blue? 2011-07-14T22:25:18Z

It’s trying to make a fragment of the experience in a contemporary language. A New Museum to Bring the Benin Bronzes Home 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

“The more contemporary history gets, the more politicized it gets,” he said. ?Deep History? Takes Humanity Back to Its Origins 2011-09-26T22:30:59Z

This fictionalized account dwells most lovingly on the illicit affair between the heroine, compared by a contemporary to a “panther,” and the Austrian Count Charles Kinsky. History Lives in Fiction: From Jennie Churchill’s Britain to Jacksonian Cincinnati 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

His interest in early music was a symptom of the problems he saw with composition after World War II; instead, he wanted earlier music to sound contemporary — clear, clean, agile. The Conductor Transforming Period Performance 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Yet the particular qualities associated with cephalopods’ “soft intelligence” — bricolage, adaptation, morphing, fluidity, flexibility, and creativity — are made to order for the contemporary economy. Put an octopus on it! 2012-07-05T00:00:00Z

Salinas’s work is hard to categorize or to compare with that of other contemporary photographers or artists. Horacio Salinas’s Charming Carnival of Creatures 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Officialdom's attitude to the practice of child migration sounds startling enough to contemporary ears. Oranges and Sunshine wasn't just a false promise 2011-04-05T09:18:00Z

“One of the reasons I wanted to talk now is because I think after 20 years, somebody shifts from being a contemporary person to one of history, actually,” says Charles Spencer. See Rare Footage of Princess Diana's Life on Upcoming TV Special 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Zijlmans, professor of contemporary art history and theory at Leiden University. Giving Artworks a Second Life 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

The classical rationale for “La Mancha” is that Miguel de Cervantes and Shakespeare were contemporaries and that “Don Quixote,” the inspiration for “La Mancha,” is a cornerstone of Western literature. Shakespeare Theater Company’s ‘La Mancha’ lances its mark 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Here’s a grand reckoning with the most revered compositional voice in contemporary jazz. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Known for his melodic parodies of pop culture and humorous renditions of contemporary tunes, Yankovic is hailed as the biggest-selling comedy recording artist of all time. Al Yankovic gets the "weird" biopic he deserves, with the perfect actor to play him 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

That same month, the new county-founded American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora — so far focused on contemporary art — also came to the commissioners looking for help after not finding sufficient private funding. When It Comes to Contemporary Art, Miami Wants More, More, More 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

You often do contemporary work, more so than period pieces. Charlotte Rampling and Those Dolly Birds 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

Rather, it seeks to depict the contemporary black experience. Review | In the galleries: Trevor Young illuminates buildings, both grand and modest 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

In its two main spaces, Playwrights Horizons focuses on contemporary American plays and often stages challenging work by early-career writers. Playwrights Horizons Details First Season Under New Leadership 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

As the artistic director of DanceAfrica, his mission is to create programming that is the right mix of contemporary and tradition. DanceAfrica Celebrates Rwanda and a ‘Living Sense of Grace’ 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Even so, the footage, of men and women in skinny pants and floppy bangs singing and playing cardboard instruments, looked remarkably contemporary. XFR STN Offers a Digital Update at the New Museum 2013-08-11T21:52:12Z

It's hard to place Hopkins in any kind of contemporary club-music scene, however. Jon Hopkins crafts dance music to meditate on 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Some viewers may be surprised to find such a sweeping show of contemporary art at the Met, rather than at MoMA or the Whitney. | The Baldessari Variations 2010-10-25T20:49:00Z

The most interesting contemporary booth, however, is filled with works that are not for sale except, perhaps, to a museum. Art Review: New York Ceramics Fair and Metro Show - Review 2012-01-19T23:09:11Z

Even if contemporary art is our most fashion-conscious religion, not everyone will be amused by this absurdist display of “restrained camp,” as Vezzoli called the show at his opening last Saturday night. | Francesco Vezzoli's Temple of Obsession 2011-02-09T19:30:37Z

Hailing a group of mathematically-precise young explorers of tricky contemporary beats, who like making polyphonic in which the melodies simultaneously move to different grooves, hardly warrants holding the front page. Dave Manington's Riff Raff: Hullabaloo – review 2013-01-24T23:30:01Z

As I wound my way around and up and down stairways and across battlements, I could see up close contemporary residential life. Kayaking through the past in Dubrovnik, Croatia 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

In contemporary debate her views can be hard to categorize. Favoring Immigration if Not the Immigrant 2011-05-08T22:39:54Z

Ishizu decided to target younger customers instead, but all the contemporary trends, whether aggressive Hollywood one-button jacket styles or V-shaped silhouettes from Europe, looked sinister on the backs of college students. Stalking the Wild Madras Wearers of the Ivy League 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

“What we do is sculpted from the grinding and blending of a variety of disciplines like contemporary ballet, break-dance, martial arts, gymnastics, circus arts,” she said. Free Dance in Summertime New York 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Hushka is director of curatorial administration and curator of contemporary and Northwest art at Tacoma Art Museum. Local books: the need for payback, Sue Bird and a tribute to Dale Chihuly 2011-06-20T20:31:05Z

As Ms. Reich started meeting contemporaries at tap festivals, she discovered that many shared her obsession. Tap Dance, and the Hard Work of Making It All Look Easy 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

This week, contemporary art reached a new plateau. A New Era for Postwar and Contemporary Art 2010-05-14T11:30:00Z

The “thug economics” of contemporary Naples evokes the worst of Mogadishu, where “Risto got to see what a skull looked like several days after the machete split it.” Review | A meditation on race, class — and murder — set in one of Europe’s most storied cities 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

In any case, I would much rather read an authentic contemporary diary than a work of historical fiction. Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

The venerable Richard J. Bernstein, in “Why Read Hannah Arendt Now,” admits her error, and defends her, saying that we should “think with Arendt against Arendt” to confront contemporary racism. Why Michael Eric Dyson Would Demote ‘Heart of Darkness’ From the Canon 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Asked about his thoughts on the state of contemporary cinema, he appeared resigned. Leos Carax on ‘Annette’ and the Cinema of Doubt 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z

In Dan Hoyle’s “The Block,” a garrulous and affectionate portrait of the contemporary South Bronx, no one is boogieing down. Review: In ‘The Block,’ a Fretful Neighborhood Watch 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

Hokeah’s characters exist at the intersection of Kiowa, Cherokee and Mexican identity, which provides a vital exploration of indigeneity in contemporary American letters. Family, Home and Heartbreak in Three Debuts 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z

And you certainly don't spot his qualities in most contemporary Hindi films. Satyajit Ray's artifice and honesty set him apart from other film directors 2013-07-22T19:00:01Z

But what might redemption mean to a contemporary American composer sensitized to social injustice? Review: In ‘Place,’ a Composer Questions His Comfort, and Power 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

But in 2016, it feels more like an examination of contemporary discourse on refugees and migrants, and of how governments and the media alike use propaganda to turn the public against foreigners. Reflections on Black Mirror – by those for whom science fiction became reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The feature-length film, assembled from interviews with contemporary artists, curators and scholars, was inspired by a single 1976 exhibition, “Two Centuries of Black American Art,” the first large-scale survey of African-American artists. ‘Black Art: In the Absence of Light’ Reveals a History of Neglect and Triumph 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

But a major contemporary art gallery is still a missing piece in the national jigsaw. Why a Welsh Guggenheim makes sense 2013-06-10T11:25:52Z

Would Mr. Fincher sit down with one of his contemporaries for a similar book? At the Movies With François and Hitch 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

This monochromatic approach helps the Comédie-Française orient itself toward the contemporary even as it celebrates its founding father — something that does not seem to concern Versailles’s “Molière Month,” a likable event founded in 1996. Molière, Turning 400, Can Still Surprise 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

She is troubled by contemporary politics in her adopted home country, particularly Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. She Was About to Quit Acting. Then She Got the Role of a Lifetime. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t say it’s a prefiguration of Romanticism; it is already Romantic. Rather, he goes straight to contemporary music, straight to Alban Berg.” At Salzburg, Don Giovanni Gets No Pleasure From Seducing 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

This is especially true of the contemporary furnishings, which are quite adventurous. ‘The Salon: Art & Design,’ a Fair at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Alan Walker does so brilliantly in “Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times,” a magisterial portrait of a composer who fascinated and puzzled contemporaries and whose music came to define the Romantic piano. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Even though these tropes came into being centuries ago as a result of colonial expeditions, they still underpin how space gets imagined in contemporary pop culture, revealing the everyday impact of old literary texts. "Godzilla vs. Kong": Monster movies evoke adventure but also "dangers" of tropics 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z

And Share’s judicious annotations help bridge any distance between Bunting’s local references and contemporary readers. The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Now the repertory is an eclectic mix of full-length classical productions and shorter works by contemporary choreographers. Adventure Beyond the South Pole 2011-08-21T04:00:04Z

Next year, she will — as one of four curators of Greater New York, the art center’s once-every-five-year survey of contemporary art made in and around the city. MoMA PS1 Gears Up for ‘Greater New York,’ With Busier New Director 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

It was among 44 artworks being offered at Sotheby's contemporary art sale Wednesday night. A self-portrait of Francis Bacon and a Cy Twombly "Blackboard" painting executed in blue have sold for a total of more than $71 million at an auction in New York 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

His tribulations, though fascinating, were not the kind we've grown accustomed to from contemporary memoirs. James Lasdun reviews The Scientists: A Family Romance by Marco Roth 2013-02-16T09:01:01Z

They did not imitate each other, or contemporary authors from a different national tradition. How Bob Dylan used the ancient practice of "imitatio" to craft some of the most original songs 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

The Swedish Academy described Munro as the "master of the contemporary short story" when it awarded her the Nobel prize earlier this month, likening her work to that of 19-century Russian author Anton Chehkov. Ill health keeps Canadian author from Nobel ceremony: academy 2013-10-18T09:58:42Z

The failure of certain works to attract substantive interest underlined perceptions that London might not be the place to sell contemporary trophies priced at more than $20 million. London Art Auctions Feel a ‘Brexit’ Chill 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

It received 22 nominations for its 10-hour dramatization of the former football star's 1995 double murder trial, which was aired against a contemporary backdrop of tense race relations. 'Mr.Robot,' 'The Americans' challenge 'Game of Thrones' for Emmy crown 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

By demonstrating the increasing importance of science and technology to contemporary culture, projects like the Serpentine Marathons enhance Kepes’s growing influence. A Master of Image and Information 2010-10-10T13:00:00Z

Furnished in contemporary Shaker style, with lots of polished wood, her house is almost disturbingly neat. Attention Please, Anne Tyler Has Something to Say 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

“These days, almost everybody plays contemporary music to some extent,” Mr. Snowman said. The London Sinfonietta, a Contemporary Music Trailblazer, Turns 50 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z

Calling attention to commonplace accessories, humdrum crafts, misplaced masterpieces and blithe inequities is a focus of much contemporary design scholarship. 4 Books That Reflect on Faces, Fragments and Torments 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

Everything looks spectacular, though the show isn’t quite as plugged in to contemporary ideas of celebrity as its title would suggest. Art Review: How the Other Half Dressed 2010-09-16T21:44:00Z

The film-makers have done a little research here, though not much: Blackbeard and Bonny were contemporaries, but not partners. Anne of the Indies forces facts to walk the plank 2012-07-26T07:53:00Z

Sounds like the opposite of the attitude of the right-wing movements that some might call the contemporary scourge of the Western world. The art of learning: Why art history might be the most important subject you could study today 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

One of the largest such presentations, “Ellsworth Kelly at 100,” opens Thursday at the private contemporary art museum Glenstone, in Potomac, Md., with around 70 works. Honoring Ellsworth Kelly’s Work by Giving it Away 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

“They always sound contemporary; they still sound like the future.” Yoko Ono’s Vintage Sonic Blasts Still Sound Like the Future 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

“To fill the vacuum of the cultural past that had been swept away with the earthquake rubble,” Solt writes, “contemporary Western art, architecture, design, and literature were imported on a wide scale.” The Startling Poetry of a Nearly Forgotten Japanese Modernist 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

At heart, "Dreamers Are Waiting" preserves what's always made Crowded House so beloved — Finn's open-hearted vocals and lyrics, both of which are paired with timeless, gorgeous melodies — while adding a contemporary sheen. From Fleetwood Mac back to Crowded House, Neil Finn weighs in on the band's open-hearted new album 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

The run, conducted by Alan Pierson, is the centerpiece of Prototype: Opera/Theater/Now, an invaluable annual festival of contemporary chamber opera and performance. ‘Dog Days’ Is Centerpiece of Prototype Festival 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

The story flits around, intermingling past and present, scenes from childhood with scenes from pre-fall Saigon with scenes from contemporary America, conversations spilling together, so it’s necessary to read carefully to orient yourself. Review: ‘The Sympathizer,’ a Novel About a Soldier, Spy and Film Consultant 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Social media today is giving contemporary fashion photographers a far greater profile than artists, who tend to shy away from public platforms, said Alexander Gilkes, a founder of the online auction house Paddle8. Fashion Photography Is the Art World’s Rising Star 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

On a larger scale, local government officials and private investors are pushing the city as an emerging center for contemporary art and architecture, hoping to lure tourists from the neon-bathed streets of its neighbor Shanghai. The Asia Issue: Next Stop: In Nanjing, China, Art and Youth Help a City Recover From Its Tragic Past 2011-03-18T18:55:00Z

The winner of the prestigious Turner Prize award for contemporary art is set to be announced at the Tate Britain museum. Britain's Turner Prize winner to be announced 2010-12-06T14:58:00Z

So, they made me like feel like I was a little more sharp, but again, they weren't contemporary. D. Watkins speaks for himself: "I think we can have tough conversations, make each other upset" 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

However, most contemporary restaurants that offer tableside service aren't doing so in order just to charge customers extra for an experience. Tableside service deserves a renaissance — across all cuisines and price points 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z

The de Sarthe gallery joins a parade of new foreign-run galleries in Hong Kong’s Central district that specialize in blue-chip modern and contemporary artists. Art: Chinese Master, Modern Brush 2011-03-31T12:30:05Z

Juxtaposing scenes from the life and times of Emily Dickinson with sounds from contemporary culture, it generates new energy from melodramatic commonplaces. The Best Television of 2019 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

And both the Cleveland Orchestra, at Avery Fisher Hall on Nov. 4, and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and Choir, at the same hall on Nov. 10, will move between contemporary scores and standard repertory. ArtsBeat: Another Wide-Ranging White Light Festival From Lincoln Center 2013-06-19T14:00:38Z

For her next album, “For Sixty Cents,” she is making a foray into contemporary music, which — unlike most classical artists noted for diversity — she has hitherto largely avoided. Anne Sofie von Otter set to perform in D.C. in November 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

In planning a new contemporary art and design museum, Tom Gilmore, a pioneer of real estate development in Downtown Los Angeles, has been focused on the architecture, commissioning futuristic — some say fantastic — building plans. New Gallery to Inject a Bit of New York Into Downtown Art World of Los Angeles 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

It doesn't make you sound contemporary, it makes your characters seem like mannequins with no control over their position in space. Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne ? review 2011-07-29T21:58:00Z

There are also lists for composers, including the usual suspects — Bach, Mozart, Beethoven — as well as contemporary artists like Kaija Saariaho and Steve Reich. Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

In Los Angeles, Mälkki’s repertoire has been varied: a lot of well-shepherded contemporary music, but also insightfully transparent interpretations of the classics. Review: After 55 Years, the Helsinki Philharmonic Returns to Carnegie Hall 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

The company’s unstructured methods place it alongside the New York contemporaries Radiohole, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, and National Theater of the United States of America. Many Methods to Collaborative Madness 2011-02-23T00:23:36Z

Kinesis Project, led by Melissa Riker, offers Class in the Grass, an all-levels contemporary dance class in Brooklyn Bridge Park, followed by excerpts from a new work at 7 p.m. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Bowie was deeply engaged in the world of art, especially in modern and contemporary British art, as an artist, critic, patron, publisher and magazine editor. David Bowie's art collection arrives in NY ahead of November sale 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Because of construction delays, the Bass contemporary art museum in Miami will reopen in the spring of 2017 rather than on Dec. 1, the museum announced on Thursday. Reopening of Miami Beach’s Bass Museum Is Delayed 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Over the years, many people have categorized Ms. Lappé as a cookbook author or chef, like another of her contemporaries, the food activist Alice Waters. The Godmother of ‘Plant-Based’ Living 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

Its great strength is the way the contemporary setting and characters refresh themes that will forever feel true. Review | A ‘Swan Lake’ with echoes of ‘The Crown’ at the Kennedy Center 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

The current revamp brings a dose of the contemporary to this New England grand dame. What museums can learn from architect Tadao Ando's Clark expansion 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

One of Cuvier’s contemporaries proposed calling the mastodon “the American incognitum.” When Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

Early on, Guha spells out how his technique differs from those of previous biographers: He uses the records of contemporaries to complement and sometimes challenge Gandhi’s own account. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: ‘Gandhi Before India’ 2014-05-09T18:11:37Z

Machiavelli has had too easy a ride for too long: let's give his contemporary Erasmus, and peace, a better chance. John Gittings: What I'm thinking about ... peace and war 2012-08-23T09:51:46Z

"The Asian markets are far more contemporary than us." Prada says Hong Kong IPO roadshow going well 2011-06-12T16:16:04Z

The real art, however, was in the elevation: using classic couture techniques to fool the eye into seeing something entirely contemporary. New York Fashion Week Comes to Life With Thom Browne and Proenza Schouler 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Says Blackburn, “A contemporary space isn’t always relaxing, but old barns are. This gives you the patina of an old building but a comfortable place to get together. It just works.” Home, Reimagined 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

By contemporary Atlanta standards, the sinewy, menacing “Let’s Get It” is a relic. In Atlanta’s Ever-Shifting Hip-Hop Scene, Future and Migos Keep Innovating 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

His statement applies much better to the art of his intimiste contemporaries, Vuillard and Bonnard, who specialised in pictures of women basking in opulently-upholstered interiors, preparing for the return of their businessman spouses. Comfort zones 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

They were contemporaries, after all, working different sides of the street, one exploding the limits of symphonic form, the other boiling them down to the absolute essentials. Salonen Was Born to Conduct Sibelius 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

Ms. Martinson’s vigorous and disturbing “Ndebele Funeral,” at 59E59 Theaters, presents a grim portrait of contemporary South Africa, a place of false hopes and bleak realities. ‘Ndebele Funeral,’ Set in South Africa, at 59E59 Theaters 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Her voice, a mixture of traditional and contemporary styles, was commanding and full of feeling in “Cloud-River-Mountain,” a song cycle by Lao Luo, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Lang and Ms. Wolfe set to Chinese poetry. Review: Bang on a Can Marathon Stays as Eclectic and Playful as Ever 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

A list published by Fotografia found 41 contemporary art fairs in the U.S. that welcome photographic art, which was not the case a few years ago. Paris Photo, Photo Independent fairs hit Hollywood this weekend 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Soloman Howard, a rising young bass who is singing the parts of Douglass and King, said that it was difficult not to hear contemporary echoes in the voting rights scenes. Revisiting the Opera ‘Appomattox,’ in the Course of Human Events 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

I loved how Prisoner of the Inquisition wove historical events into a living, breathing world with a tangle of family allegiances and vendettas worthy of a contemporary soap. Prisoner of the Inquisition by Theresa Breslin - review 2011-08-19T14:00:00Z

“Jack Irish,” “Bosch” and “Mr. Inbetween,” which premiered from 2012 to 2018, represented an interim stage — like most genre shows of the last few decades, they exhibited at least an awareness of contemporary sensibilities. Three (White, Male) Tough Guys Sign Off. Is It a Moment? 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

The Times would do better to highlight contemporary works which actually capture some of those old values. Michelangelo Is the Divine Star of the Must-See Show of the Season 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

After many years in downtown Manhattan, the annual eight-hour celebration of contemporary classical music will take place at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, May 6. Bang on a Can Marathon Moves to Brooklyn Museum 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

This is a really great, contemporary sounding version of this song. American Idol, Miley Cyrus Week: Our Eggheads Debate 2010-03-24T13:12:00Z

This effect, I should note, will best be felt by theater aficionados happy to travel to the outer fringes of the contemporary scene. 2010-01-12T07:09:00Z

And this is the norm; there’s a collection of contemporary cases that display similar results. Dear white allies after Charleston: Please understand this about your privilege 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Weekly has an interesting piece about how the museum has been actively collecting contemporary art from the Middle East — now on view in the exhibition "Islamic Art Now." Roundup: Truths revealed in 'Selma,' libraries ransacked by ISIS, Vegas Strip design 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

It’s well past time for its main contemporary art museum to live up to its hometown’s worldliness. Delacroix, Warhol and More Art to Look Forward to This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

The scene is an overload of stimulus: Hundreds of modern and contemporary artworks, a few overpriced bars and eateries, and thousands of haughty patrons, including a few Effie Trinket look-alikes, all vie for attention. Where is all the pretty artwork?: A trip to the Armory Show points to troubling trend 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Boulé is a classically trained dancer who once studied ballet, but in her contemporary practice she aims to transcend established techniques. Five-Borough Freestyle: Contemporary  2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

While many of my contemporaries are looking to settle down, I long for something carefree. It’s Not You, It’s Men 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Many contemporary choreographers don’t mind visible tattoos, which is a good thing, because about half the Ailey company is tattooed, she says. How ballet dancers flaunt — and hide — their tattoos on stage 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Instead, he’s satisfied with being contemporary pop’s great reconciler. Pharrell Williams Takes a Stand on Cheery Musical Ground 2014-02-26T18:08:14Z

Films such as these display specific contemporary anxieties about population growth but build, cinematically, on a foundation laid when the underground proletariat toiled to provide for the high-rise aristocracy in Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis. From Infinity War to Okja: why overpopulation is cinema's crisis du jour 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

The Turner Prize was established in 1984 to celebrate new developments in contemporary art. Critics lash out at Turner Prize 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

The organization, known for presenting contemporary, often experimental, live performances is partnering with the Theatre at Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles to bring a third of its programming to the center of the city. CAP UCLA teams up with Theatre at Ace Hotel: Why shows are moving from the Westside to downtown 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

In encouraging these kinds of nontraditional juxtapositions, the fair is pushing the boundaries of its own definition of “contemporary art” — long a catchall term that replaced “modern.” Frieze New York Adds More Blue-Chip 20th-Century Art 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Some contemporary theological scholars disagree over whether this portrait is prescriptive for modern-day followers or simply descriptive of expectations of the time, but such discourse was flattened in the lilac room. On "engagement chicken" and redefining the meals for which we marry 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z

For contemporary fairs, it’s much more about white cubes. To Design TEFAF, ‘You Have to Be a Little Crazy About Art’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

I was really pleasantly surprised at how I think it still sounds pretty contemporary. “If we came out now, we wouldn’t have a chance in hell”: Shirley Manson looks back at 20 years of Garbage 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

This notion of reflecting the Black experience through the prism of superpowers has carried over to contemporary story lines. When Blackness Is a Superpower 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

There’s always something thought-provoking at this contemporary art space, like “Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere,” opening Oct. Lost in Paris 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z

Mr. Stocchi invited Gelatin to create a piece for the museum’s contemporary Bodon Wing, which was built in the 1970s to accommodate land art pieces, minimalist installations and monumental art. In This Exhibition, You Walk Through Excrement 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

“With ‘Billy,’ the more I investigated and the more I watched the news, I realized that I was writing something that felt rather contemporary.” In This ‘Billy the Kid,’ the Wounds Are Those You Cannot See 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

But the more traditional ones on his watch have been tentatively traditional, often courting a middle ground by mixing contemporary sets with period costumes. Peter Gelb?s Tenure at Metropolitan Opera 2011-11-25T15:13:27Z

He is particularly irritated by the soullessness of contemporary Bach interpretations, which he says lack passion, fire and dynamism. Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy 2011-08-13T21:56:11Z

This is odd, I concede, since Houellebecq is considered a great contemporary author, and one cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading his work. Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

It is a contemporary work that borrows traditional elements, and at first, the mixture is awkward. Dance Review: ZviDance in ‘Dabke’ and ‘Coupling’ at New York Live Arts 2012-06-03T21:20:55Z

Scott Wheeler was less concerned about sounding contemporary in the selections from “Portraits and Tributes” that the pianist Olga Vinokur offered. Music Review: An Extravagant Farewell to Summer 2010-09-03T22:47:00Z

I had some historical aspects, contemporary stories, some verité of behind-the-scenes processes, and reenactments. "Body Parts" examines the labor of movie nudity – the good, the bad and the merkins 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Nickas is known as a connoisseur of contemporary abstraction, and you’ll find plenty of examples among the works in the main rooms of the house. Art Review: ‘Creature From the Blue Lagoon,’ in Bridgehampton 2012-08-02T21:41:16Z

Some of the best-loved ballets and contemporary dance works pay tribute to Shakespeare. Shakespeare: huge dance fan. Check out these Bard-themed dances on DVD

It seems wholly remote from 21st-century Britain, even as its themes of coerced sex and utter amorality chime with contemporary fears. Get Carter: No 7 2010-10-17T10:49:00Z

When contemporary art ventures into the public realm, outside the protective walls of galleries and museums, the question arises, “Who is this for?” Review: ‘Image Object’ Looks at the Relationship Between the Virtual and the Physical 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Spector was chairwoman of the jury of five curators and museum directors who made the selection, which recognizes achievement in contemporary art. Perils, Platforms and a Prize 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

For adepts of slow rail travel, the new cars preserve the romance of overnight trains, in contemporary comfort, with a choice of hotel-style suites, classic bunk beds or seats. 52 Places to Go in 2019 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

The film moves at a slow pace, but it’s not quite as languorous as other contemporary Asian pictures. Review: ‘The Island Funeral’ Goes on a Restless Road Trip 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Greek singer and songwriter Manolis Rassoulis, whose quirky songs influenced a generation of contemporary Greek musicians, was found dead Sunday in this northern Greek city, Thessaloniki police said. Greek songwriter Manolis Rassoulis dies at 65 2011-03-14T10:02:07Z

There he was a pioneer of innovative programming and a champion of contemporary music, especially by American composers. Music Review: David Zinman Leads Philharmonic in Mendelssohn and Mozart 2013-12-06T22:21:02Z

Henry Ford Was a Fascist – David Rovics Rovics is the contemporary Woody Guthrie: a witty, wily and unfashionably socialist folk singer. Take cover! It's the Swells iPod! 2010-06-24T11:58:00Z

To do better by all women, we must listen and recognize the historical and contemporary circumstances that shape their experiences and have real consequences on their lives. One Year of #MeToo: The Legacy of Black Women’s Testimonies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

As programme director of the Hong Kong Arts festival at that time, I was delighted to present them alongside The Wooster Group and Philip Glass as important influences in contemporary culture. Pierrot Bidon's Archaos: the circus that shot society in the head 2010-03-24T10:41:00Z

“Like you could grab a beer with him!” is how two members of the public discuss the aspiring Presidential candidate Burr in “Hamilton”—applying the lowest-common-denominator measure of acceptability that recurs in every contemporary campaign. Why Donald Trump and Jeb Bush should see “Hamilton” 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

Still, even through the layers of our contemporary hindsight, the slyest moments of Weinberger’s score make a convincing argument for the piece. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Parks is a deft and often-dulcet pianist, who incorporates a wide array of contemporary influences. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

During our visit, we found top-notch contemporary art galleries, hotels hosting concerts and art happenings, a sculpture park, and even a microbrewery. Next Stop: Switzerland?s Little-Known Lower Engadine 2010-05-05T21:07:00Z

In Cole’s contemporary story, Naledi Smith is an overworked epidemiologist studying for her doctorate in New York. Love Notes 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

My Bed sparked public debate about the nature of contemporary art when it was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999. Emin 'hopes' bed will go to museum 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Which “contemporary” wrote the description, quoted by Ackroyd, of the public urinals of early-20th-century London as “the most important places for homosexuals of all and every kind”? In One City, 2,000 Years of Gay History 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The subject’s mystique has drawn unusual visitors to “Decoding the Renaissance,” like the F.B.I.’s cryptanalysts, not the typical audience for a library devoted to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. ‘Decoding the Renaissance,’ at the Folger Shakespeare 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Although the show hasn’t been updated since January, the back catalog is deep, comprising plenty of classics like “Little Women” alongside contemporary hits like “The Da Vinci Code.” 6 Podcasts to Make Sense of A.I. 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

When the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial debuts on October 3, it will mark the largest survey of the contemporary field ever mounted in the U.S., with more than 60 firms participating. The Biggest Architectural Newsmakers This Fall 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

I’m not so sure we really need yet another art museum to present overviews of contemporary art, especially one with the Getty’s distinctive capacity to explore just about anything else. 'London Calling' at the Getty and the tension between abstract and figurative painting 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Trump has become the punching bag for the contemporary press, and while he deserves many of his beatings, Holzer offers evidence that Barack Obama treated the press as poorly, only differently. The Never-Ending War Between the White House and the Press 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

You don’t have to change “Sweeney Todd” to fit the contemporary world, or even “Night Music.” ‘I Was Skeptical.’ How Sondheim Agreed to Change ‘Company.’ 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

The message serves as foreshadowing for Tupac’s untimely death at age 25 in 1996, but it also places the film squarely in the context of contemporary issues of race and justice in America. Watch the First Teaser for Tupac Biopic 'All Eyez on Me' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

His longtime promotion of his country’s products made him a pioneer of contemporary Irish cooking. Review | In Dublin, Chapter One begins and ends with pampering 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Baby’s first concert should probably not involve challenging contemporary chamber music. How a classical critic introduced her child to music (not very well) 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

“It’s not contemporary, is it?” my 10-year old companion asked in sudden anticipatory horror as we entered the theater one night. Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Finishes Its London Season 2012-09-25T22:04:19Z

A big chunk of contemporary memoir is devoted to the author figuring out where she went wrong in this or that phase of her life. Review | What do women authors hope to gain by showing their weaknesses on the page? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Instead of a disenfranchised peasantry clinging to tradition in the face of modernity, contemporary British cinema finds a demoralized postindustrial underclass fighting for dignity at the margins of the global economy. Movie Review: ‘The Selfish Giant,’ Directed by Clio Barnard 2013-12-19T23:03:38Z

But already by then she had turned her attention to new art and in 2019 there was an even larger gift, this one of contemporary work, including photography and video. Latin American Artists Reinvent Their Histories 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

But Bowler is most notable for not looking at all like Burton, while instead bearing a striking resemblance to Burton contemporary Christopher Plummer. Skip 'Liz & Dick' and watch a film they headline 2012-11-20T14:25:09Z

A few more instances will be forthcoming, but the nudity is moderate by contemporary standards. 'The Knick' is a bloody trip back to 1900-style doctoring 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

We knew we wanted people as contemporary and as young as possible so the Department of Defense couldn't say that this was a problem in the past that has now been corrected. "Invisible War" documentary tackles military rape 2012-06-19T23:02:15Z

To generations of Americans with even a passing acquaintance with contemporary art, the Keane name raised images of sad children trapped in dystopian worlds of deprivation and misery. Margaret Keane, Painter of Sad-Eyed Waifs, Dies at 94 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

By all accounts, the nine-dancer contemporary ballet troupe has been a thriving success, touring around the country and the world from its home base in Boise, Idaho. Trey McIntyre Project’s last dance: Success kills a thriving company

In interviews, he has cited contemporary theorists like Arthur Jafa with providing crucial inspiration, and he’s spoken about seeking an aesthetics of abstention: from being watched, from being sorted into commercial bins. On ‘The 7th Hand,’ Immanuel Wilkins Sees Jazz as an Escape Pod 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

So after years of neglect, the heart of "The Flames of Paris" blazes anew for a contemporary viewership in Russia and the U.S. in this Mikhailovsky reconstruction of Vaynonen's original revolutionary ballet. 'Flames of Paris' blazes anew with Mikhailovsky Ballet at Segerstrom 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z

Instead, viewers were asked to suspend our contemporary racial perceptions in order to accept the colorblind Verona of the past. ‘Bridgerton’ Takes On Race. But Its Core Is Escapism. 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

Juxtapositions of ancient, modern and contemporary exhibits feature prominently. 'Compulsive' art collector builds French museum to display ancient treasures 2011-03-27T00:06:09Z

Jim Lee takes on the project with a certain humor and humility, acknowledging his predecessors but offering a subtle contemporary spin on the artistic impulse to remake or deconstruct mediums. ‘Jim Lee and the Cream Tones’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The upstart Danish furnishings brand Hay recently debuted a new collection created with Sebastian Wrong, the former design director and cofounder of the contemporary U.K. furniture manufacturer Established & Sons. Wrong for Hay Debuts Collaborative Furniture and Accessories 2013-12-13T05:00:00Z

As his career blossomed, it became both the thing that made acting a misery, at times, as well as a force pushing him to go deeper into performances that dazzled his contemporaries. In ‘House of the Dragon,’ Paddy Considine Claims the Crown 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

I don’t know how it overtook TV offerings like “PAW Patrol” or “Thomas & Friends,” so unerringly calibrated for contemporary tots, in his imagination. ‘Yellow Submarine’ & Me 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

We pass by a line of symbolic figures, people as conglomerations of detritus and tools — bricks, mops, shovels — representing contemporary slaves. Exhibition Review: An Unseen Evil Still Ensnaring Countless Souls 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z

Sometimes the steps look a bit Hungarian-folksy, at others they’re quite contemporary, and at times I glimpsed a little South Asian blend of softness and percussion. ‘The Winter’s Tale’ dazzles with its visual drama, choreography 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

He will report to Marc Spiegler, the overall director of the Art Basel group of contemporary and Modern art fairs. Art Basel Hires Armory Show Director to Run Its Miami Fair 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

While she was organizing the show, Isabelle Dervaux, the Morgan’s curator of modern and contemporary drawings, was able to locate some of the advertisements, catalogs and clippings that were Lichtenstein’s inspiration. Inside Art: A Fresh Look at Lichtenstein at the Morgan 2010-07-08T21:40:00Z

The Christie’s video was filmed during the opening days of the Venice Biennale, as that city hosted hundreds of wealthy contemporary art collectors. Selling Old Masters Now Requires Learning New Tricks 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Contemplative and open-ended, Birk’s paintings collectively comprise a complete English transcription of the Quran bordered by narrative scenes of everyday life in the contemporary United States. Provoking discussion, not riots: Sandow Birk’s “American Qur’an” is quietly transgressive, eschewing the satirical depictions of the Prophet Muhammad that grab headlines 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

Out of 94 images, only 66 approach contemporary standards of sharpness and focus. Spare a Flickr of sympathy for professional photographers 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z

This season, the Martha Graham Dance Company is highlighting historical and contemporary ideas of femininity in Graham’s work. 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Stating that those artists formed a “circle” around him when they were merely contemporaries doesn’t help an audience make sense of a complex period. Music Review: Susan Graham in a Concert Inspired by Carpeaux Sculptures 2014-04-29T20:09:02Z

Among superlatives and generalizations, celery must be the most indispensable, widely used and yet simultaneously underappreciated vegetable in contemporary cooking. What’s wrong with the celery you’re buying 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

He added: "The war itself is a story of east versus west, so I don't think it's too hard to see the parallels with the contemporary political world." Lily Cole to play Helen of Troy 2014-02-11T15:50:05Z

Stephen Jones, a London-based milliner, said the contemporary incarnation goes back to at least the early 1960s, when women clipped them atop bouffant hairdos. Noticed: The Perched, the Frothy, the Fascinator 2011-05-06T17:34:29Z

And despite the contemporary interpolations, Bruckner’s dramaturgically direct and uncluttered production feels surprisingly like a straightforward version of Ibsen’s late 19th-century play. On German Stages, Women Take Control 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Bet Hatikva is a place you want to visit if you’re looking for signs of new and exciting life in the contemporary American musical. Review: Desert Awakening in ‘The Band’s Visit’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

At the start of the 21st century, she was, after all, one of the most expensive contemporary artists in the world. Jenny Saville: 'I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies' 2012-06-09T20:46:38Z

The setting is a contemporary unnamed African country being torn to pieces by government troops, marauding rebels and the enduring ravages of European colonialism. | 'White Material': Hanging on for a Dear Way of Life 2010-11-19T05:30:00Z

Ms. Watt engaged in a type of collaboration that is fairly typical for contemporary artists — farming out technical portions of making a work to experts. In Denver, the Pandemic Deepens Artistic Collaboration 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

“Xaybu: The Unseen,” offers yet another way to hear the contemporary cross pollination of classical, rap and jazz. An Artist Embodies an Approach to Music Without Borders 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

It's also kind of at odds, I feel, this spiciness with our contemporary ideas about both word nerds and Victorians. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

Daniel Fish’s production, which won the Tony Award for best musical revival, seems to bend the rules of history, too, punctuating a turn-of-the-century tale with stark violence and a dreamlike contemporary dance. Seeing ‘Oklahoma!’ One More Time? She Cain’t Say No 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

With the success of Tate Modern and Saatchi, it's certainly getting easier to attract audiences to exhibitions of contemporary art. Making a spectacle of the Old Masters 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

The Summergarden series at the Museum of Modern Art, which presents contemporary music in the museum’s spacious sculpture garden, continues on Sunday with new music for string quartet. | Classical Music: So Rhapsodic That the Birds Join In 2013-07-18T21:26:34Z

You also can’t help noticing that this kind of work, tinged with the flavor of the experimental and the contemporary, remains outside the purview of most American opera houses. ‘Written on Skin’ brings theater to opera stage 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Marc Eggimann/Courtesy of Art Basel This year Art Basel, the annual show for contemporary art, coincided with Documenta, reserving a few surprises for the hardened collectors who all took the same train. Art Basel – review 2012-07-03T12:59:01Z

Presenting temporary contemporary art exhibitions of all kinds and media in the city’s first downtown electric power station, this center declares its mission is to “raise questions about society and our world today.” Brussels emerges as Europe’s epicenter of contemporary art 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Ms. Tanowitz’s company splits the bill with the contemporary classical music ensemble Eighth Blackbird. Dance Listings for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

“While his contemporaries in bluegrass were experimenting in swing in the 1940s and ’50s, Sprung was expanding the acceptable banjo repertoire to include — in addition to swing — ragtime, pop and classical styles as well.” Roger Sprung, Banjo Virtuoso of N.Y.C. Folk Scene, Dies at 92 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

It finds his trumpet coaxing an electrified ensemble into all sorts of approaches — slow-jam, vague Caribbean groove, contemporary jazz balladry — then tearing into them with animated, inventive soloing. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

The Forward prizes, founded in 1992, are intended to raise the profile of contemporary poetry. Forward poetry prize avoids Nobel laureate clash 2010-07-20T22:59:00Z

The book’s “new gospel of wealth” challenges contemporary philanthropists to move past ideas about charity and top-down noblesse oblige benevolence to address root causes of our social ills, especially injustice and economic inequity. Perspective | A voice for the arts, and social justice, joins the National Gallery of Art board 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Establishing such connections between the music she plays and contemporary experience is essential for Kopatchinskaja. Her Seattle Symphony debut drew blood. Now, this fierce violinist brings her fearless artistry back to town. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

Much of her material is rooted in her supposedly mundane background, but she mixes things up with some sharp contemporary observations and the odd deliberately silly joke. This week's new live comedy 2013-01-12T06:00:17Z

But the idea of melding circus and contemporary theatre is thrilling, and my guess is that Flown is still evolving. Flown – review 2013-06-07T17:40:07Z

In university art history programs in the United States, contemporary art is “by far, the most popular,” reports Richard Meyer, an art history professor at Stanford University, in his book “What Was Contemporary Art?” Can the Old Masters Be Relevant Again? 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

Hamilton did criticize slavery at different points in his life, and compared with most white contemporaries held enlightened views on the abilities of Black people. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

Each room is unique, but all feature contemporary design and chic vintage furniture. In France, Narbonne takes a turn in the international spotlight 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The club's location on 7th Street just west of the 110 Freeway places it in a part of town that hasn't hosted much contemporary music activity. Teragram Ballroom adds to L.A.'s music venue roster 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

In his own speech, Jasper Sharp, the museum’s curator of modern and contemporary art, said putting the show together felt at times “like we were in some kind of insane Japanese game show.” Wes Anderson, Curator? The Filmmaker Gives It a Try 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

"They are immersive works," said Daniel, "which are an astonishing response to the work of contemporary American artists." Joan Mir? Tate retrospective reunites triptychs 2011-04-11T14:23:12Z

The film captured the zeitgeist of the counterculture in a zippy mainstream comedy and assured Mr. Mazursky’s reputation as a man with his finger on the contemporary pulse. Paul Mazursky, director of ‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ and ‘Harry and Tonto’ dies at 84

So I think all of my characters in the contemporary section are struggling to come to terms with life after the fire. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

A contemporary handcrafted wedding vow is expected to be many things at once. Why Perfect Wedding Vows Embrace Imperfection 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z

Looking back over the last few months' most high-profile releases, it's striking to see how often film-makers still turn to the contemporary or recent novel for material. Good book, great film 2011-04-01T10:08:52Z

Kitty emerges from the journal as a girl in contemporary Amsterdam, traveling across time to learn what happened to her friend. ‘We Are a Film Festival First.’ A Focus on Children Comes Second. 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

"The Design Museum is world-renowned for contemporary design and architecture, so it is fantastic news that they are moving to these brilliant new expanded premises in heart of London," said Mr Osborne. Design Museum to offer free entry 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Balanchine, whose musical perceptions were as acute as those of many major composers, bequeathed Mr. Martins not just a company but an audience eager for contemporary music. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z

As ever, vernacular and generic architecture remain an irresistibly convenient vessel for contemporary artists. Doug Aitken's 'Mirage': a funhouse mirror for the age of social media 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

"It's a cross I bear," he said of the fact that his art is not taken as seriously as that of some contemporaries. Pop art "godfather" Blake still the outsider at 80 2012-11-21T16:34:07Z

At 33, Payne is already among the top tier of widely produced contemporary playwrights. The 99-Seat Beat: DACA drama, Lenny Bruce and new Nick Payne 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

In contemporary China there is little room for sentiment. Shanghai is racing to become China’s cultural capital 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

American composer George Gershwin's Depression era opera Porgy and Bess has been updated in a multi-media production which will include a hip-hop and contemporary dance company. New world theme at Edinburgh fest 2010-03-17T10:06:00Z

In the mid-1990s, she move to Oregon, to work as contemporary art curator at the Portland Art Museum. Kathryn Kanjo named new director of Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

It’s a smart move, since much “historical” art from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s is now being shown in contemporary galleries anyway. 30 Must-See Artists at the Armory Show 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

A contemporary reader of his verse may have the same question. ‘Selected Letters of Langston Hughes’ 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

He even says he quite likes the glowing red exit signs in the space, which put the images into a contemporary context and add a dash of saturated color. Berndnaut Smilde Creates a Cloud at New York’s NeueHouse 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

This double bill showcases a range of folk traditions, embraced by two distinctly contemporary artists. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Martin Scorsese, 71, sounded slightly dejected by this part of contemporary moviemaking when releasing “The Wolf of Wall Street,” an explicit romp of a movie few would associate with a director in his 70s. Working late in life, directors refuse to say cut 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

The recurrence of theological terminology in “Yellowstone” and in Costner’s interviews recalls contemporary liberal Catholic belief on hell. “Yellowstone,” an American purgatory: No heroes in Kevin Costner’s new Western series 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

And he released a mix tape, “Nostalgia, Ultra,” in 2011 that was widely praised for its fresh take on contemporary rhythm and blues: restrained, heart-felt vocals and an air of wistful longing. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z

And anybody who thinks that either Eisenstein or Selznick would be horrified by contemporary Hollywood is kidding themselves. How "Battleship Potemkin" reshaped Hollywood 2011-01-12T01:32:00Z

Loss and retrospection, irony and passion were themes on Thursday when the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presented a wide-ranging program of contemporary and 20th-century works for strings and piano at the Kaplan Penthouse. Review: Chamber Music Society, From Mirth to Mortality 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

A contemporary circus show about a clown who watches his own funeral. Cirque du Soleil keeps circling back to D.C. region

Jones and Gramm are contemporaries of Perry and Tyler who also ruled radio for a time, but they sometimes came at it from a different angle. Tyler, Perry lead Songwriters Hall of Fame class 2013-02-22T13:34:09Z

But contemporary art is still taken seriously as an investment. It’s Auctions vs. Galleries 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

It is the second-largest gallery for contemporary art in Britain, after Tate Modern. The Turner prize goes Gateshead to in 2011 2010-09-16T14:53:00Z

“Certain colleagues in historic monuments will never work with contemporary art again,” he said. Palace Intrigue at the Louvre, as a Paint Job Leads to a Lawsuit 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. van Zweden is pushing the Hong Kong Philharmonic into more challenging repertoire – with more Mahler, more Wagner and more contemporary composition. Jaap Van Zweden Is a Global Maestro of Music and Multitasking 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

For a casual and contemporary vibe, apply generously. Multitasking Tinted Balms for the Makeup Averse 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

The players involved may speak of contemporary music as a mission, but never as an obligation. Just Why Does New Music Need Champions? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Such skeptics might be persuaded to acknowledge that modern and contemporary studies offer perception-altering images of an art long-filtered through Western stereotypes. Under Threat: The Shock of the Old 2011-04-15T02:50:03Z

So the darker feelings inspired by this contemporary display of curiosities — even the doubt about the merits of the entire project — are part of the exhibition’s strength. Newly scrubbed Renwick Gallery opens Friday 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

“While there is a great deal of homogenization, particularly in corporate and government landscapes, there is an abundance of individual creativity and even aesthetic eccentricity in contemporary garden design,” he responded. A passionate gardener who cut his roots and wanders the world 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

It’s a good place to get the pulse of the contemporary post-bop jazz scene, with established young players from both New York and Paris. The best jazz clubs in Paris 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

How could a conventional contemporary ballet like “DVG” stand a chance on the same program as that? New York City Ballet Is Back, and the Real Jewels Are the Dancers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Experimental theater, movies starring puppets, chamber music concerts and contemporary ballet will all play a part in this spring festival. Major Lazer in Nuremberg, Germany, and Ai Weiwei in Athens: Global Arts Guide 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Mamlok, who moved back to Berlin 10 years ago, was for decades a fixture of the New York contemporary music scene. Ursula Mamlok, Avant-Garde Composer, Dies at 93 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

But you could have seen the same thing at a contemporary music concert in New York, where he’s the music director of Trinity Wall Street. A polymath in D.C.: The long ascendancy of conductor-composer Julian Wachner

For now it is enough to point to the orchestra’s signal success in the handling of contemporary music. ArtsBeat: In Hall or Lobby, Toronto Symphony's Festival Offers Intriguing Sounds 2011-03-04T15:28:26Z

“We wanted to think that we could make songs that were contemporary to what radio plays now, but in reality we come from a different place,” Mr. Clayton said. U2’s Flight to Now (Turbulence Included) 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

As the recent announcement of the David Gemmell Legend award, and the less-than-positive response it engendered shows, contemporary fantasy is seeking to do more than just entertain the masses. Fantasy fiction: the battle for meaning continues ... 2010-04-20T10:58:00Z

But Tom Turkey is just adjusting himself to the contemporary palate, which will not taste the difference. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Adapts to the Eye of the Times 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

“It was a moment in London when contemporary art became something different and kind of exploded,” Ms. Siddall said. At Frieze London, Throwing Light on Tense Times 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Collaborating with Herman, who was brought back for the project, the husband-and-wife team recast the home as a more glamorous, more contemporary version of its first incarnation. Great Heights 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

It also may help to know that her chief interests as a writer have more to do with her home country’s past than contemporary online mores. Review | Geling Yan’s twisty thriller ‘The Secret Talker’ begins with a creepy but alluring text 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Together they represent a vigorously led life of the mind, a crash course in contemporary literature and a tour through the zeitgeist of the turn of the millennium. 38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

But there is a growing recognition that St. Petersburg, still struggling to recapture its bygone elegance, can ill afford to sit out contemporary trends in art. Scene/Seen: Nouveau Hip Art Meets Feisty Grunge in St. Petersburg 2011-04-08T13:29:04Z

His more fully developed stories have a sense of the absurdities — and sadnesses — of contemporary American life reminiscent of George Saunders’s short fiction. Books of The Times: B. J. Novak’s Story Collection: ‘One More Thing’ 2014-01-27T21:38:31Z

He added: “A lot of my work has some degree of narrative, but for City Ballet, a house of form and structure and minimalism, I set out to do an abstract contemporary ballet.” Man of Medicine, Dance and Film: 3 Dimensions of Pontus Lidberg 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Montreal is a convivial blend of Continental elegance and contemporary funk. O Canada: The Cool Pleasures of the Montreal Jazz Festival 2013-06-15T12:00:35Z

So he surrounded them with mysterious contemporary works and those wild Baroque pieces. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z

In a city full of centuries-old churches, whose in situ artworks never move, why not leave an aggressively contemporary site-specific one in place? Critic’s Notebook: Rudolf Stingel’s Carpeting Makeover in Venice 2013-08-20T22:13:15Z

One explanation is his shaky standing with his contemporaries. Design's Odd Man Out Gets Moment in the Sun 2010-10-17T18:00:00Z

For most of those years, the public were busily making stars of such motor city contemporaries as Diana Ross, while ignoring a woman whose ability to extract pathos from a song far exceeds Ross's. Bettye LaVette - review 2012-12-12T18:00:33Z

Abstract painting, championed by the powerfully influential critic Clement Greenberg, was ascendant, and the market for contemporary art was booming, thanks to Pop Art. Art Review: Lucy R. Lippard and Conceptual Art, at Brooklyn Museum 2012-10-18T20:10:23Z

This scenic city is now poised to become a destination for contemporary art. Inside Art: Richard Prince’s ‘Canal Zone’ to Be Shown at Gagosian 2014-04-04T00:09:56Z

But a well-designed program showed off the group’s full range; Baroque repertory made up the first half, with a sequence of Romantic and contemporary pieces leading back to Bach in the second. Music Review: Visitors Lift Up Their Voices to Bach and More 2011-05-24T21:09:19Z

There’s no reason for this work to be kept in a hip-hop box: it’s contemporary; end of story. Dance Review: Sampling New Work One Step at a Time 2011-04-13T00:19:47Z

Mr. Markovits’s book may be perfectly pitched to the contemporary political moment. The Meritocrat Who Wants to Unwind the Meritocracy 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

The evening of art and excess, held at the lavish Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, with tickets costing $1,000 apiece, was the inaugural biannual fundraiser for the nonprofit contemporary art institution. LAXArt Gala, a night of art-magic and mystery at Greystone Mansion 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Her gaze is more ornery and distanced than those of other contemporary American realists, like the great Catherine Murphy or the young Massachusetts artist Josephine Halvorson, who paint residential details from sight. Maureen Gallace’s Restrained Palette of House, Sea, Sky 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

To bolster its holdings of contemporary classics the Art Institute of Chicago has bought “Short Circuit” by Robert Rauschenberg. Inside Art: Now Starring in Chicago, a Prime Rauschenberg 2011-06-09T20:38:07Z

"The gospel and contemporary Christian-oriented assets in all of those areas will continue to be invaluable in the positioning of Georgia as an entertainment industry destination," she continued. Gospel artists flock to Atlanta to advance career 2012-06-01T12:47:08Z

However, in 2007 experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam ruled that the painting was actually by an unknown contemporary, after its authenticity was questioned by British art critics. Gallery to return portrait to heirs 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The premise of their entire review was based on the state of contemporary American poetry beginning in the 1950s, which was inaccurate and had nothing to do with the collection at all. Are we witnessing the death of the writer? Facing the AI crossroads in class and on the page 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z

Vision in a Cornfield is a new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit that brings these perspectives together in a quirky meditation on the spiritual aspect of abandoned automobiles within a contemporary framework. New Exhibition: Vision in a Cornfield at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit 2012-09-07T18:01:50Z

He added, “These are all A or A-plus versions of the artist, whether women, men, old, new, contemporary, estate.” Parting Is Such Sweet Spectacle: A Collector Sells His Hirst, Koons and Calder 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

This week the museum is announcing its choice of curators for the 2012 edition of the Biennial, its giant survey of contemporary art. Inside Art: Split Pairing of Curators for 2012 Whitney Biennial 2010-11-19T06:48:00Z

“Kullervo” got a rare hearing, as did some of Sibelius’s gorgeous songs for male chorus, his chamber pieces and works by his teachers and Scandinavian contemporaries. Hearing the Mystery in Sibelius 2011-08-15T21:18:14Z

If this sounds harsh, let me also say that I think curators of contemporary art in New York museums have some of the toughest jobs in the art world. 2010-02-14T03:58:00Z

But while Charpentier is clearly not absent from New York these days, he and his contemporaries still do not get the quantity and quality of stagings they deserve. Opera Review: ‘La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers’ at St. Paul’s Chapel 2014-01-02T22:36:48Z

Written by Richard Curtis, but showing a historical rigour lacking in his contemporary rom-coms, the script was thrilling and funny, as well as educational. Doctor Who 2010-06-10T07:05:00Z

You could assume people had read the hot contemporary books; when they hadn't, it occasioned not merely puzzlement, but disapproval. Not-so essential reading 2010-10-22T08:43:00Z

“Both vintage and contemporary design are both so undervalued at the moment in the marketplace,” he says, “that it would be a smart investment.” | The Collective 2 Fair Kicks Off a Month of New York Design Happenings 2014-05-07T17:43:02Z

“Under the Sun,” which opens theatrically July 6, uses contemporary North Korea as a proxy for Stalin’s Soviet Union. In ‘Under the Sun,’ a Documentary Masked and Unmasked 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

The result is a refreshingly contemporary space that’s just the right amount of irreverent, perfect for an eager Manhattan clientele. Design Within Reach Debuts a Sleek New Manhattan Store 2014-02-26T05:00:00Z

And then together, they are among the founders behind Exhibition A, which sells contemporary art prints by hot younger artists. Cynthia Rowley and Bill Powers Are Everywhere at Once 2012-03-16T23:26:35Z

It made a contemporary issue vivid not by dumbing it down but by actually working through its complexities. Stephen Colbert's DeRay McKesson Interview Was Late Night at Its Best 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

“He believed in Christian truth, which isn’t going to find ready acceptance in contemporary academia.” René Girard, French Theorist of the Social Sciences, Dies at 91 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

What set Whitman apart from both his models and contemporaries was his bold choice of material. Slim Whitman dies aged 89 2013-06-19T15:18:34Z

But I'm struck by the upsurge in the contemporary appetite not just for making, but also for listening to, speeches long and short. Speech: an ancient genre returns 2013-04-15T14:12:27Z

Ms. Kulczyk also hopes to bring a strong focus on contemporary dance to her Warsaw endeavor. A Polish Collector’s Passion for Art and Dance 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

The third painting of some importance was the portrait of an old man by Jan Lievens, a contemporary of Rembrandt. Tracking the Elusive Masters 2010-07-09T14:30:00Z

The Niall O’Leary Irish Dance Troupe performs at the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden on Monday, with choreography that blends traditional Irish dance and contemporary movement. Weekend Miser 2011-03-10T22:22:31Z

In contemporary campaigns, the effort to present a candidate as accessible and relatable plays out on Instagram and YouTube as much as in greasy spoons and at county fairs. A Political Satirist for the Internet Election 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Like many contemporary art projects, the Chalet eludes easy classification. Piero Golia's Chalet Hollywood redefined art experience 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

I side with Mr. Pereira that a festival as prestigious as this one should define itself through commissions and contemporary offerings. At Salzburg Festival, Musicians Tap Their Inner Mozarts and Schuberts 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

Howard Rachofsky, 76, who owns a museum-quality collection of postwar and contemporary art in Dallas, said he was not sure he would ever want to visit an international art fair again. As the Art World Goes Online, a Generation Gap Opens 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

“At least one world class contemporary artist appears to view the interesting mix of peaceful hillsides alongside striking urban and industrial landscapes as a piece of art in itself,” Jones said. Banksy gifts Welsh steel town a white Christmas attraction 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

It’s contemporary, and funny, and not very long. The Jayhawks return with “Paging Mr. Proust”: “They’re gonna call me a pompous ass, it’s gonna be fantastic!” 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

“In the contemporary period you have people printing traditional Haggadot but adding additional materials that they like,” she said. Why Is This Night Different? (See QR Code.) 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

But there is much else in the action and details that, coming from the writers, has an admirably contemporary ambience. A Pop-Cultural Moment for Classical Music 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

“I brought it into my house and it could technically infect you, kill you, and vanish and be worth nothing. That’s the perfect piece of contemporary art.” John Waters, Droll Bard of Baltimore, Promises Art to Hometown Museum 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

He sets the action in Central Park and dresses the characters in goofy contemporary sportswear. Music Review: ‘Peter & the Wolf,’ at Guggenheim Museum 2013-12-15T22:23:25Z

I also insist that to a billion contemporary Chinese, Mao Tse-tung has a lot more to answer for than the merry chaos and inscrutable epigrams this opera uses to recall his reckless ardors. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z

The situation is even worse for contemporary artists, Mr. Kettner said. OnlyFans May Be a Refuge for Nude Fine Art 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Little Park’s servers also push the popular contemporary con that small plates are meant for sharing. Restaurant Review: Little Park in TriBeCa 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

The 48-hour week at the Broad will tie it with the Hammer Museum in Westwood for the most ample schedule for a major Los Angeles museum offering substantial displays of contemporary art. The Broad museum plans a 6-day week -- and 45 seconds to see 'Infinity' 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Morrison's novel transposes Othello to contemporary England and tells the story from the point of view of Iago. Ten of the best 2011-02-05T00:14:00Z

“There is so much creativity and smartness and innovation that comes out of these young women. It felt really contemporary. But they had not received a lot of attention because they were short-lived.” How the black radical female artists of the '60s and '70s made art that speaks to today's politics 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

There, they suggest ghosts of the former residents of North America’s natural landscape, as well as contemporary victims. Review | In the galleries: Hanging garments symbolize violence against indigenous women 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Gracefully poised in person, she did not shy in print from comparing the worst of contemporary American architecture to the totalitarian excesses of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. Ada Louise Huxtable, Architecture Critic, Dies at 91 2013-01-08T00:34:22Z

One of the first of a wave of American women contemporary designers who emerged in the 1990s, she built a brand on the appeal of clothes and accessories that made shoppers smile. Kate Spade, Whose Handbags Carried Women Into Adulthood, Is Dead at 55 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

The new season will continue Mr. Gillinson’s strong emphasis on classical music programming, from early music to the core repertory and on to contemporary composers. Carnegie Hall Announces Its 2016-17 Season 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Its first offerings will hit the block at Sotheby's Impressionist and modern art auction on Nov. 4, with other works sold at contemporary art auctions through Nov. 12. Top 20th-century art collection could sell for $85 million at auction 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Hodges acknowledges ruefully that classical music is “at the dusty peak of Western high art, one in which contemporary American culture is increasingly less interested.” A Violinist Rethinks Her Devotion to Music, With Emotion and Erudition 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

I grew up watch the Oscars and Golden Globes, but I don't really remember the best song category having a lot of contemporary artists in it. Lana Del Rey talks about her Globe-nominated 'Big Eyes' title track 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

One common thread this year is the fluidity between periods, with traditional works alongside contemporary ones. Asia Week Events Set for Galleries and Museums 2014-03-13T22:06:34Z

Without her, it would be a not bad procedural, touching on some knotty contemporary issues and infused with a paranoia that is at once unsettling and comforting. | 'The Girl Who Played With Fire': Stieg Larsson?s Second Novel Is Brought to the Screen 2010-07-08T22:57:00Z

The show features 13 original van Eyck paintings — more than half of the 22 extant known works — shown alongside 100 artworks by contemporaries from the late Middle Ages. Up Close, There’s More to the Ghent Altarpiece Than the Lamb 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

From the early 1930s to the mid ’50s, she was arguably New York’s most powerful dealer of contemporary art. A Forgotten Pioneer’s Art World Is Resurrected at the Jewish Museum 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Let’s think — which contemporary figure dominating both popular and political culture would George R.R. Guess who George R.R. Martin compared to “Game of Thrones'” Joffrey 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

"Plus it's very contemporary to look at, too, with all the cross-dressing going on." Moment of Friday: Comics artist Art Spiegelman is bananas for vaudeville 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

What contemporary mystery writer hasn’t been strongly influenced, at least indirectly, by Wilkie Collins and James M. Cain? ‘Brian De Palma’s Split-Screen’ review: A long-awaited reassessment 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Most Dramatic Routine: Between rehearsing two dance routines with Shawn, Derek Hough choreographed a contemporary dance number that he claims “was like writing a song with your body.” Dancing with the Stars Results Watch: Who Is in the Finals? 2012-11-21T13:30:41Z

Mimicking the contemporary appetite for reality as cruel spectacle, parroting phrases from tabloid headlines, internet spam and talent-contest announcements, the booklets contained more than a whiff of the unsavoury. Tim Etchells on performance: Virtual events occur in spirit on a mystic river 2010-09-22T15:41:00Z

Even more flabbergasting to the contemporary reader is the fact that Henry himself openly kept a mistress, with whom he had two illegitimate daughters. “Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace”: Divorce, Victorian-style 2012-06-18T01:00:00Z

If this sounds like a contemporary ghost story about capitalism and orientalism, it is — which also makes it the perfect starting point for Lap-See Lam’s “Tales of the Altersea,” her first U.S. solo show. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

The 10 hardworking students of Dancewave, too, managed to enliven the space around them in Jamal Jackson’s “Mile 21,” a high-energy piece with West African inflections set in the contemporary art wing. The BEAT Festival Returns to Brooklyn 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

Rival Sotheby's holds its equivalent auction on Wednesday evening, and the two companies stage a second series of post-war and contemporary sales the following week. Records tumble at Christie's art sale 2012-02-08T00:25:34Z

POSTMA: I love art in the broader sense — the contemporary but also the classical. To Design TEFAF, ‘You Have to Be a Little Crazy About Art’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Lewis's assessment points to one reason why the song remains so popular: Studies have found that streaming is shaping the arrangements of contemporary songs, including by making intros much shorter. Why the Outfield’s “Your Love” is the perfect summer song 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

Vandermeer notes that these plants are endangered because of contemporary development and landscape practices that clearcut native species for new housing, and then landscape using exotic species. Born to rewild: why now is the perfect time to make your lawn an eco-paradise 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

New York dealers are sparsely represented in the show’s contemporary section, and there is a host of first-timers, including 18 galleries from Latin America in this year’s Focus section. Art Review: Free-for-All Spirit Breezes Into a Vast Art Fair 2011-03-03T23:15:11Z

Kawakami explores the inner lives of three women in contemporary Japan as they navigate their roles in the world. New & Noteworthy, From Y.A. Dystopia to the Lives of Stoics 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

So Familiar expands on the bluegrass sound of the duo’s first album, drawing from pop and rock influences for a more contemporary Americana sound. How Steve Martin and Edie Brickell Forged a Partnership 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

This is one of those contemporary, seemingly non sequitur objects placed to provoke questions about how one thing is like or unlike its neighbors. Three years and $56 million later, Seattle Asian Art Museum is reinvented and set to reopen 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

This debut novel, a cutting satire about the disgraced founder of a popular wellness program and the cult she subsequently establishes, takes the contemporary relationship between influencer and followers to exhilarating extremes. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

Tendler’s concert, by the end, amounted not only to a display of contemporary compositional force, but also a true show. Review: A Pianist’s Inheritance Inspires Little Masterpieces 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

The reaction to Matilda represents, in microcosm, many of the contradictions of contemporary Russian culture. Gone too Tsar: the erotic period drama that has enraged Russia 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Perry is also keen to debunk the rarefied world of contemporary art, doing so with sleight-of-hand casual charm that folds art history and knowledge into aphorisms and insights. Grayson Perry Prepares His American Introduction 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Laird’s ‘shadow looms large over contemporary Irish writers’. Go Giants by Nick Laird - review 2013-01-25T09:00:01Z

One immediate justification is that each translation is the contemporary way of bringing the poem back to the public’s attention. David Ferry Won the National Book Award in His 80s. In His 90s, He Has Translated Virgil. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Eli Broad's new contemporary art museum that is currently rising in downtown Los Angeles will now open some time in fall 2015, organizers said on Tuesday. Eli Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles sets fall 2015 opening 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

That serious critics can see these works as the “best” of anything is an indication of the increasing irrelevance of contemporary American drama. ‘Surprised and Dismayed’: Readers Respond to Our Best 25 Plays List 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

A larger perspective might have illuminated anti-Communist excesses and prevented facile contemporary parallels. Museum Review: Museum of History & Industry Reopens in Seattle 2012-12-29T01:25:41Z

In creating this installation, however, Mr. Salzmann addresses one of contemporary art’s greatest conundrums: Can art installed in an antiseptic, corporate space like this one tackle gritty and ambitious subjects? What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

A student at the Royal Academy would have learned to avoid contemporary subjects like this. J.M.W. Turner: The Romantic Turns Reformist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

“Under Stefano’s guiding vision and artistic direction, the house has become a contemporary reference in high fashion.” YSL Looking for New Creative Director 2012-02-27T17:08:45Z

Kent plans a complete overhaul of the Washington Ballet repertoire, which has featured Webre’s works and those of contemporary choreographers. When the boss is a ballerina: Julie Kent on balancing Washington Ballet top job and family 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

He later became known for integrating traditional Chinese ink brush techniques with a contemporary western flair in both ink and oil paintings of landscapes, architecture, animals and people. Chinese modernist painter Wu Guanzhong dies at 90 2010-06-28T12:16:00Z

At the Guggenheim, Mr. Therrien will create programs about contemporary architecture and urban development. The Glow Coming to Madison Square 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

The installation is meant to suggest a future relic, like a contemporary Pompeii, and alludes to Miami’s fragile position in the large universal canvas, touching on climate crisis and rising sea levels. Miami Beach unveils traffic sculpture made of sand 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

“Namouna” is deeply odd and quite divine — a simultaneous homage to and update of 19th-century forms that somehow transforms itself into an utterly contemporary work. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

A cerebral and illuminating pianist, especially in contemporary repertoire, he’s not a player who dazzles you with pianism per se, instead reaching through the music to find expression and communication. Review | Even a great orchestra needs a great conductor: Concertgebouw pales at Kennedy Center 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

“We wanted to see a clear space, bright and colorful — not cozy — that makes people think of contemporary shops in other cities,” Mr. Kokkino said. The Upside of a Lockdown 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

The display is a combination of traditional portraits and contemporary images with newspaper photographs, film footage, postage stamps and satirical material. Royal portraits reunited at show 2012-05-16T15:42:35Z

In a sense, they are doing something much more powerful in suggesting that the contemporary interior is a suitable medium for reflecting the world outside the home. Interior dark: two shows reveal visions of the unhomely 2010-06-16T10:07:00Z

Back in the early 1990s, David Foster Wallace wrote an essay urging young American novelists to find a way to come to terms with the role of television in contemporary life. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z

Her eponymous contemporary collection, which debuted in spring 2009, features elements from her former specialties and shows off the technical skills she developed making bras, underwear and wetsuits. Young L.A. designers to watch 2011-11-07T16:26:15Z

It will be used to display special exhibitions and contemporary art. Museum Expansions That Think Inside the Footprint 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Every true artist is eclectic, so like his contemporary Bob Dylan, Cohen drew from Christian sources as well, most famously in “Suzanne,” which in many ways is a musical rewrite of the life of Jesus. Review | How spirituality shaped Leonard Cohen 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

The photographs were taken for a recent commission from Maxxi that would form part of a proposed contemporary art museum in the city. A Look Back on a Life’s Work Capturing Conflict 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Rather, I’m trying to do two things: One is to try to use the language of contemporary art; two, to transmit a possibility to experience this subject matter in a new way. Cruising New York’s Waterways This Week: Portraits of Former Refugees 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Ms. Pill, on the rebound from the short-lived Broadway revival of “The Miracle Worker,” slips back into a contemporary role with compulsively watchable style. | 'This Wide Night': Edie Falco and Alison Pill as Reunited Ex-Cons 2010-05-17T02:15:00Z

Max Edouard Hetzler, a dealer in contemporary art who runs spaces in Berlin, Paris and London, said he thought the British capital wasn’t going to give up that status anytime soon. Brexit? What Brexit? The Art World Carries On Unfazed at Frieze London 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

She clinched the competition, mostly by mastering artful contemporary routines set to such tunes as Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and Ingrid Michaelson's "Turn to Stone." 'So You Think You Can Dance' crowns champion 2011-08-12T02:21:08Z

That sequence, he said, might be an encouraging indicator of a story that is striving for contemporary relevance. ‘Dark Knight III: The Master Race’ Comic Book Prompts Reflection and a Look Ahead 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

Like so many of their contemporaries, Burr and Scrivenor conjure towns that are largely bereft of First Nations history, culture or even inhabitants. Murder in the Brain-Broiling Heat and Red Dust of the Outback 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Predictably, the first wave of contemporary design collectors tended to be attracted to the showiest, though not necessarily the most thoughtful or demanding, works. Design: Commercial but Ambitious Designs 2011-05-29T16:30:06Z

It’s a contemporary rock band collided with a traditional brass band, with drum rhythms leavening the mixture. Music Review | Orquestra Contempor?nea de Olinda: Orquestra Contempor?nea de Olinda, Brazilian Rock and Brass 2010-04-02T22:26:00Z

The exhibition curators agreed to remove the painting, citing “contemporary concerns about our relationship with food.” Museum explains 'offensive' 17th-century painting depicting dead animals after vegetarian, vegan students complain 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

If you listen to contemporary country music, it’s hard to keep the adjacent chatter from bleeding into the melody. Ashley Monroe, rising above the chatter of country music 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

The books are set in a contemporary timeline. Harry Potter and the retconning of Dumbledore: It’s no longer about the story 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

There is contemporary political resonance in the real story he’s telling. Her Husband Is Kidnapped. Then Things Start to Go Downhill. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

Ailey’s story is told alongside the creation of “Lazarus,” a new dance by the contemporary choreographer Rennie Harris, whose homage to Ailey proposes an intriguing juxtaposition of past and present. ‘Ailey’ Review: A Poetic Look at the Man Behind the Dances 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Amir ElSaffar will bring his Two Rivers Ensemble, playing a blend of Iraqi music and contemporary jazz. Bang on a Can Marathon Moves to Brooklyn Museum 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Rise TV Sitcom locations may vary, but the vast majority are set in contemporary times. How Plebs gets laughs from the past 2013-03-26T10:59:00Z

There have also been other shows, but the preponderance of old cover stars adds up to a conservative trend that leaves too little space for a wider, richer range of contemporary architecture and design. John Pawson: Plain Space 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

The way that Paul Wynter, managing director of the online gallery LondonArt.co.uk, sells work by contemporary artists. For Galleries, a Central London Presence Is a Dying Tradition 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

In 2017, she enrolled in a new professional training program at the contemporary company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. A Swiss Army Knife of a Dancer, Making a Virtue of Versatility 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

Which brings me to the basic answer to your question: Talking about wrongness in any serious way requires empathy, intellectual curiosity and humility, and those values are not exactly dominant in contemporary public life. ArtsBeat: Reviewer Spotlight: Kathryn Schulz and the Rightness of Wrongness 2011-03-25T16:23:32Z

Bamboozled, then, is a genuine one-off, but I can detect traces of its relentless, irritable, questioning approach in a variety of contemporary art. Bamboozled: Spike Lee's masterpiece on race in America is as relevant as ever 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

He imagined these works as sensual material portals to faraway seas, calling them “a contemporary form of idolatry, a bulwark against longing.” Ashley Bickerton, Unflinchingly Honest About His Work and Illness 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

The performers were guests for the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella contemporary music series. Messiaen's ode to Utah's national parks is a multimedia wonder at Disney Hall 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

I hope that this shows that a survey of significant modern and contemporary work by women is possible but that it also prompts people to think that there should be more. 'Elles' exhibit at Seattle Art Museum asks: What is 'women's' art? 2012-10-07T06:38:52Z

Slinger admits that, when he first turned up at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1991, he envied the traditional good looks of many of his male contemporaries. Jonathan Slinger on Hamlet: 'I'm going to try to achieve the impossible' 2013-03-11T19:00:02Z

But her principal current interest is contemporary Arab and Arab- American art, “partially because it was so under­represented in the United States.” Through art, creating a dialogue between Palestinians and others

Sotheby's said that it will offer Bacon's "Portrait," a 1962 painting depicting a reclining figure, at a Nov. 11 auction of contemporary art in New  York. Andrew Wyeth works owned by Charlton Heston to be auctioned 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

Objects of everyday life during World War II — the posters, the signs, the leaflets, the newspapers, the letters — land on contemporary senses like sparks still smoldering. A World War II Exhibition at the Grolier Club 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

“Antiquity has a role in expanding our understanding of contemporary society.” That Painted Greek Maiden at the Met: Just Whose Vision Is She? 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

There’s a small photographic homage to her at Loisaida Inc. And there are tributes to other figures from the past by contemporary artists elsewhere. When the Young Lords Strove to Change New York 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

An advertisement at its publication called it “indispensable for the understanding of contemporary art.” ‘Picasso & the Camera,’ John Richardson’s Latest Show 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

When I reach a point of total saturation with the contemporary, for example, I re-read “Blood Meridian,” or Nabokov’s “Ada,” or Helen DeWitt’s “The Last Samurai.” Camille Bordas on Family Secrets 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z

The immateriality is in the chatter it provokes, the jokes, the pleasure some will take in seeing the president humiliated, and resulting insiders’ discourse about contemporary art and irony. Perspective | An art critic explains what the Guggenheim was really saying when it offered Trump a golden toilet 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

It's a nonprofit initiative to plant contemporary holiday chalets throughout the country, each designed by a different cutting-edge studio. English Country Goes Rock-'N'-Roll 2011-03-10T12:15:00Z

It was just so contemporary and unexpected and delightful. Lin-Manuel Miranda Was Talking to Meryl Streep the Other Day 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Moving to Austin in 2003, she continued to engage with the contemporary classical repertoire in the Austin New Music Co-Op, while also playing in a well regarded indie-rock band, the Weird Weeds. Sharing an Intimate Musical Vision 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

Dr. Young said that color-conscious casting allows the work to tackle contemporary issues and creates the opportunity to breathe in new life. Director Quits ‘All My Sons’ Amid Dispute Over Cast’s Racial Makeup 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

“He has an old soul and marries that to a contemporary fresh style that is appealing to all generations,” Mr. Leon added by email. Marcus Gardley’s ‘The Box: A Black Comedy’ Comes to Brooklyn 2014-04-13T21:56:13Z

The contemporary music prize is one of eight that the foundation presents annually, including awards in the sciences, communication and economics. ArtsBeat: Composer Is Awarded $550,000 Prize by Spanish Foundation 2014-02-11T19:25:40Z

“She was such a conscientious student,” says composer Jennifer Higdon, who taught a course about contemporary composition when Hahn was an undergraduate at the Curtis Institute. A violinist’s methodical search for creativity 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Yet Lloyd himself is on board with the notion that his assertively contemporary stagings pare back stifling layers of performance history to lay bare what’s underneath. A Director Making His Mark in More Ways Than One 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

“You can buy major works by major contemporary African artists for only five figures, and that’s not right,” Ms. O’Leary said. Discovering Contemporary African Art, With a Curator as a Guide 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

While many of his Imperial contemporaries were dispatched to developing countries, Freeman worked on the national collection of more than 25 million insects. Paul Freeman obituary 2010-08-25T17:24:00Z

Mr. Hockney is one in a long line of modern and contemporary artists working in the medium. David Hockney Wouldn’t Paint the Queen. But He Made Her a Stained-Glass Window. 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

Yes, it feels like a throwback, but if you want something arch and contemporary, I recommend BoJack Horseman. The X-Files episode one recap – weird, but not in a good way 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

Showcasing a broad array of styles, from avant-jazz to contemporary classical, the Stone has operated as a nonprofit and is largely run by volunteers. The Stone, an Influential Music Space, to Move to the New School 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

But to read the books now in a contemporary context is a liberation. The forgotten genius: why Anne wins the battle of the Brontës 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Los Angeles may have entered the postwar years with little to speak of in the way of a contemporary art world, but within a decade it was more than making up for lost time. Arts & Leisure: ?Pacific Standard Time? Art Exhibitions in L.A. ? Review 2011-11-10T16:57:42Z

“A lot of collectors made a lot of money, which is good news for our fairs,” said Marc Spiegler, director of Art Basel, who was also in New York for the contemporary sales. Record-Setting Sales are Still Being Driven by U.S. Artists and Buyers 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

The dresses had a contemporary feel, but without new, beefy ideas for day, the label might remain passively vintage. Fashion Review: Down From the Stratosphere, Gaga-Free 2010-09-15T06:45:00Z

I can’t resist suggesting more short stories by two of Canada’s most recognized contemporary writers. O Canada! What Should I Read? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

The locally made leather footwear in this funky shoe shop features contemporary designs mixed with flourishes from a previous century. 5 Places to Shop in Venice 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

As with Stoppard and “Leopoldstadt,” “The Doctor” feels like something of a homecoming: a Viennese return for a contemporary play rooted in the world of yesterday. A Homecoming, of Sorts, for Viennese Plays 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

And yet Sullivan’s struggle to claim and embody his identity, and the way he writes about that struggle, is wholly contemporary. Lou Sullivan’s Diaries Are a Radical Testament to Trans Happiness 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

So is a section from another coat that might almost be a wall hanging by some embroidery-obsessed contemporary artist. Art Review: Swatches Illuminate a Painter?s Other Art 2011-03-17T22:16:56Z

“This says so many things that correspond to contemporary realities,” he said. From Aristophanes to Hitchcock, Celebrating Birds and Culture 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Based on this concert, National Sawdust, which opened on Thursday after a $16 million retrofitting of its building, once a sawdust factory, is sure to become home to lots of fresh contemporary music programming. Review: Terry Riley Works at National Sawdust 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

For a while I’ve felt that biennial exhibitions of contemporary art may have run their course. Looking Inward, and Back, at a Biennale for the History Books 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

For years curators have lamented how little time the contemporary patron spends in front of works in a museum; a 2001 study by the Met found the median viewing time to be only 17 seconds. Frame: Caravaggio, ‘Denial of St. Peter,’ Met Museum of Art 2012-06-07T17:09:11Z

The story, based on the life of the film’s writer and star, Osamah Sami, balances tender romance with nuanced observations of contemporary Islam and generational divides. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Sense8’ and ‘Just Another Immigrant’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

The paper, which tracked prices from 1970 through 2013, identified the segments of postwar and contemporary, as well as American art, as being in a bubble “still in the mania phase of its formation.” Art World Prepares for a Challenging Year 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

"You can't play heads or tails with a statue, especially when it comes to contemporary art," which will always have detractors and champions, he said. ArtsBeat: Controversial Statue of John Paul II Gets Makeover 2012-09-18T21:29:49Z

But Broad later proceeded to build the Broad right across the street to showcase his own extensive contemporary art collection. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles Names a Co-Leader 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

Like those of David Lynch, his exact contemporary, Spielberg’s films veer wildly between kitsch and cruelty. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

The work of contemporary Tlingit artists currently on view at Stonington Gallery exemplifies the brilliance of Tlingit art past and present. Tlingit masters on show at Stonington Gallery 2011-09-22T21:28:08Z

The renovated general staff building, which faces the Hermitage's famed baroque facade, is to be entirely devoted to modern and contemporary art. Hermitage instils shock of the new with contemporary art wing 2012-11-28T19:47:24Z

It mixes African and Oceanic masks, Vietnamese and Moroccan textiles, contemporary Aboriginal paintings, pre-Columbian pottery, Native American art. At the Quai Branly, ‘Each Exhibition We Do Is a Book Telling a Story’ 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

The show, staged in London’s Vaults theater, features updates to the dialogue and song lyrics written by James Rado, who wrote the show with Germoe Ragni in the 1960s, to comment on contemporary politics. 'Hair' gets a little new styling for the age of Trump 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

His press materials quoted Mr. Kaiser and explained that the festival’s goal was no less than “to debunk stilted perceptions of American dance and give way to a new notion of contemporary performance.” Straddling Worlds of Performance 2010-12-31T15:49:56Z

The property will house a 10,500-square-foot contemporary art exhibition space with rotating shows and a restaurant from the chef Levon Wallace. Hotels and Resorts to Travel to in 2017 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

That is hardly the case for "Moonlight," a heart-wrenching, contemporary tale of a black boy growing up in Miami struggling with bullying, his sexual identity and the scourge of drugs. From 'Moonlight' to 'Fences,' movie awards season bursts with color 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

He has never liked being referred to as a “champion” of contemporary music. Just Why Does New Music Need Champions? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

“On the one hand, it will be a radically modern, contemporary building,” Mr. Helfenstein said. Brooklyn Bridge Park to Display Danish Artist 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

No. A programme of changing exhibitions will mix contemporary and historic work. Turner Contemporary joins the regional arts charge 2011-04-08T15:13:24Z

They were where seemingly incompatible composers could meet on a program, if not in person, and where adventurous pop and jazz artists could be welcomed into the once cordoned-off environment of contemporary classical music. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

But then I started considering all the lives she had touched, and changed: her readers, her contemporaries, her students, and an entire generation of writers. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

The contemporary story in “Unsheltered” offers a collage of Democratic talking points acted out in the lives of a middle-class family slipping down the ladder of success. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

Both fall into a category that might be called Western noir — crime stories set in the contemporary West. ‘The Carrion Birds’: battling for survival in the New Mexican wilderness 2013-04-11T20:42:50Z

Mr. Zapata may still be unknown to the fine art crowd, but if it were up to the liquor distributor, his paintings would already be hanging in MoMA, alongside Warhol and other contemporary masters. Domingo Zapata’s Best-Known Work May Be Himself 2013-04-24T22:04:00Z

Stylistically, she’s a proponent of the kind of contemporary pieces that merge the drama and polish of modern dance with spastic postmodern gestures, switching regularly from contemplative to urgent. Dance Listings for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Described as a contemporary neo-noir about the dangers of sexual obsession and ambition among a group of young people in their 20s, it is being directed by Paul Schrader of American Gigolo and Affliction. Fifty Shades of Grey movie leaves Bret Easton Ellis off writers shortlist 2012-08-08T11:28:44Z

Even the publisher and the book jacket say that this is a contemporary retelling of the Oedipal myth ... the question for readers isn't what's going to happen — it's the fascination with watching it unfold. Lit Life: A Q&A with David Guterson 2011-10-24T01:45:04Z

For contemporary art in America, the 1980s was an exciting if not lovable decade. Searching for Light in the Darkness of the ’80s 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Seattle is hosting one of the most important figures in contemporary art, and showing him in unusual circumstances. A rare chance: Robert Storr paintings at Seattle's Francine Seders Gallery 2012-04-12T20:17:07Z

Thubron sustains his reputation as one of the greats of contemporary travel writing; his transcendent prose places the reader directly on the path to Kailas, culminating with the final glimpse of the ultimate sacred site. 'To a Mountain in Tibet': Colin Thubron's pilgrimage through a land stalled in time 2011-04-13T21:38:03Z

Her Soho and beach pictures suggest apprehensive nods to the contemporary media creation of “art and leisure.” Art as a mirror of selfie culture? That's 'Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life' 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

In shops lining the Columbia Road Flower Market, there were collectible teacups and plates with Charles and Diana, William and Kate, but little that looked contemporary. Front Row: With All of the Memorabilia Surrounding the Diamond Jubilee, Elvis Fans Have Nothing on the Queen’s 2012-06-20T21:38:20Z

The pleasure and indulgence of an intelligent TV hour, devoted to a contemporary composer, comes round all too rarely. Max: A Musical Portrait of Peter Maxwell Davies - review 2011-07-16T05:00:01Z

On the Esquiline mere blocks from the Colosseum, the menu is casual but the spacious contemporary art gallery atmosphere makes it a whimsical reprieve from the ordinary. Rome’s seven hills offer seven green respites from summer’s crowds 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

“Jewelry should not be called an accessory,” said Stephen Webster, the designer who curated the display and brought contemporary jewelers together. Fashion Review: Palladium Becomes a New Jewelry Metal 2012-02-20T19:04:38Z

Many go on long-term loans to contemporary art museums in various countries. Scene/Seen: Bank Diversifies Into Culture 2011-05-27T12:00:04Z

A legend of contemporary electronica in the purest sense, Capitol K's genre mashing, globetrotting musical explorations have seen him receive a steady stream of critical praise. March's best music from across the MAP 2013-04-02T15:55:27Z

Ms. LeCrone made one of her ballets classical and the other contemporary. Dance Review: From Emery LeCrone, Two Dances to One Bach Partita 2014-03-25T21:50:23Z

As for the piece itself, Mr. Nicola said that loved both the film and the musical adaptation of “Once,” in part because “they are snapshots of contemporary Ireland and not a sentimentalized view of Ireland.” ArtsBeat: Stage Version of ?Once? Will Start Downtown 2011-06-05T14:26:10Z

And the playwright Brad Birch, who set the Guthrie’s pared-down adaptation in contemporary Norway, was particularly moved by the heightened political tensions in Britain over Brexit. Ibsen Wrote ‘An Enemy of the People’ in 1882. Trump Has Made It Popular Again. 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

The Booker committee have made a "commercial decision," according to Dr David Brauner, an expert in contemporary American fiction at the University of Reading. Global expansion for Booker Prize 2013-09-18T14:02:17Z

Yet we tell ourselves all the time, in limitless coverage of the newest, shiniest, craziest stuff, that contemporary art is almost beyond criticism in its cultural value. Does Richard Prince's work reflect the creativity or cynicism of modern art? 2011-03-24T17:33:55Z

So with top contemporary artists’ work selling into the millions, artist jewelry is “one step in,” Ms. Guinness said. ‘Wearable Sculptures’ Become Collectibles on Their Own 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

The ICA Miami would seem perfectly primed to pick up on that challenge of moving beyond the narrow confines of the contemporary milieu and showing the full history of art. When It Comes to Contemporary Art, Miami Wants More, More, More 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

But he had already formed one commitment which made his 1960s "a little different" from the decade as his radical contemporaries knew it. Tony Judt obituary 2010-08-08T17:38:00Z

“It was a brilliant PR stunt,” said Offer Waterman, a dealer in 20th-century British art, who attended Sotheby’s Friday night contemporary art auction but left before the sale of the Banksy. How Banksy’s Prank Might Boost His Prices: ‘It’s a Part of Art History’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

The elegant entry point is a tall cylindrical lobby with a curving stair that wraps around a contemporary chandelier. The Views From the Top: How They Measure Up 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

And because he was famous when young, travelled widely and met everyone, they contain endless details about his contemporaries, and his often caustic opinions of them, their music, their playing or their wives. The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev by Simon Morrison – review 2013-03-30T08:59:01Z

In 2005, he founded the Metafuturism Contemporary Art Development Society, which aims to support alternative and innovative trends in contemporary Russian art. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Using Wealth to Critique the Wealthy 2010-12-01T11:00:00Z

The future of another new project, the Canòdrom contemporary arts centre, still being built on a neighbourhood dog track in Barcelona, is stalled. The drain in Spain: the country's arts crisis 2011-03-27T20:31:00Z

Billboard: During the past decade, some of your contemporaries like Solomon Burke, Mavis Staples and Al Green have recorded albums of traditional soul that evoke their classic early work by consciously avoiding contemporary production touches. Aretha Franklin does "own thing" with new album 2010-03-19T21:54:00Z

Amid the plethora of performers and ensembles today focused on contemporary music, more traditionally minded concert musicians, as well, are trying to find a better balance between old and new. Review | Paul Huang nurtures the new amid the canon 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z

The basic plot has respectable antecedents: It’s a contemporary version of let’s-put-on-a-show musicals like “Babes in Arms.” ‘Found,’ a Musical Based on Literary Detritus 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Representing those trying new tools is the painter Julien Nguyen, who has a reputation for applying Renaissance methods to contemporary idioms. Computers and Painting’s Identity Crisis 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

However, the secret to his minimalist-looking cook space is not to go without the usual tools and appliances you'd find in a contemporary kitchen. Lessons from a minimalist kitchen — plus, where they keep the clutter 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Like many of her contemporaries, Ms. Rogers works with an extended back story. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Schoeni, a leading light on the contemporary art scene here, took over her family’s gallery when she was 23, after the death of her father, Manfred Schoeni, a veteran Chinese art dealer. Female Factor: Bringing a Woman's Touch to Chinese Art Scene 2011-01-20T12:30:05Z

She told the interviewer that while she is aware of the English novel’s origins as a bourgeois 19th-century entertainment for the upper middle classes, it has a role to play in contemporary culture. Review | Sally Rooney’s latest novel is a lucid, nuanced story about coming of age in a broken world 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

The Leavin gallery was known as the go-to place to see cutting-edge contemporary art from notable or up-and-coming artists from New York and Los Angeles. Getty Research Institute acquires Margo Leavin Gallery archives 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

But given the size of the art world now, the imprimatur of museums, particularly small ones, is not what it once was, even where the volatile contemporary market is concerned. Art Review | 'Skin Fruit': Anti-Mainstream Museum?s Mainstream Show 2010-03-04T23:28:00Z

Ms. Awai’s design is a humorous, provocative reimagining of what a contemporary monument to Columbus could look like — not on a pedestal, but at our feet. What Should Monuments Look Like Now? 25 Artworks Reveal Some Ideas 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Famed for her interpretations of the classics, especially “Giselle,” Ms. Alonso was also at home in contemporary works. Alicia Alonso, Star of Cuba’s National Ballet, Dies at 98 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

The north-east has been a cultural success story over the past decade, from the arrival of the Baltic for contemporary art and the Sage for music to theatrical success at Northern Stage and Live Theatre. Arts funding cuts 'dangerous' for north-east England 2010-07-27T12:58:00Z

“Even if we all talk about contemporary art, we don’t necessarily have the same point of view.” Scene/Seen: A Biennial Blooms Where It's Planted 2011-09-16T13:17:58Z

Recommended for audiences 12 and older, this production frames the story of the titular character, who defies her uncle to seek justice for her dead brother, with references to Black Lives Matter and contemporary feminism. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Showcasing the best in contemporary music, here are some of this year's acts worth your attention. Reading and Leeds 2012: festival preview 2012-08-21T11:43:31Z

She is also a serious collector of contemporary art — “very, very, very bright,” the artist Jeff Koons told me — and one of Los Angeles’s most active arts patrons. Scene Stealers: Once Writer for ‘The Young and Restless,’ is Charging Into a New Episode 2013-07-26T18:07:51Z

The supposedly uneducated artist appears to have been well aware of contemporary European art trends. Art Review: John Martin's Greatness and High Kitsch 2011-09-30T11:30:09Z

It is a law of history, he wrote, “that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.” When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

How can you expand your commitment to contemporary opera while keeping up with these other demands? The Met Is Planning a Big Bet on Contemporary Opera 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

Opened last year, the nation’s first contemporary art museum is an airy white two-level space that holds rotating exhibitions — often two at a time — all year long. A Weekend in Beirut 2010-04-29T22:07:00Z

In the past two decades, there has been a thrilling surge of contemporary dance in Israel completely disproportionate to the size of that small nation. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Scores may be used only in chamber music, sonatas with accompaniment and contemporary works.” Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z

It needs to both widen its gaze and hone its judgement, and start looking beyond the rarified world of contemporary conceptual-driven curating. Has the Deutsche B?rse turned into an art prize? | Sean O'Hagan 2010-03-18T13:46:00Z

I wanted to do a contemporary crime thriller that feels more real about what’s happening out there. John Hillcoat Narrates a Scene From ‘Triple 9’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Her innovative, multi-paneled works boldly mine the insular brotherhood of Abakuá through a distinctly feminist lens and offer veiled commentary on contemporary Cuban politics and culture. The late Cuban artist Belkis Ayón's mysterious world unfurls at the Fowler Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

In 1982 he set up underwriting to place composers in residence with American orchestras, where, in theory, they would offer advice on contemporary programming and promote the work of living composers. John Duffy, a Composer Who Gave His Peers a Platform, Dies at 89 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

And I realized that the Met had never presented a contemporary score so steeped in European modernism. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

During the interview, Bennett also revealed that he prefers contemporary US literature to English writers. Alan Bennett rejected 'gay label' 2014-05-06T09:17:11Z

Some of our shows revisit history in contemporary terms by looking at new idioms as a fresh way to explore historical figures or canonical texts. Alex Timbers and Les Freres Corbusier Do History as Mash-Up 2010-04-04T02:53:00Z

Inside is the museum’s permanent collection of international modern and contemporary art, including pieces by Pablo Picasso and Georgia O’Keeffe. Luminous architecture, fine art and urban gardens are among Houston’s new attractions 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Even though around 20% of the UK's contemporary classical composers are female, this is not reflected at the Proms or at any other major concert series or festival. Why are there so few women behind the music? 2010-05-24T15:42:00Z

There, French techniques inform contemporary interpretations of washoku, traditional Japanese cuisine. Rosemary’s Takes Its Italian Specialties to Stuyvesant Town 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Horowitz founded Theater for a New Audience in 1979 to presents the work of Shakespeare and other classic and contemporary playwrights. ArtsBeat: With $10 Million Gift, Theater for a New Audience Home Gets a Name 2013-09-05T19:20:34Z

And, in this period setting, the visibly contemporary labels on the bottles of bubbly come across as yet more lazy summer-stock falsity in a staging full of it. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

She rapped about white supremacy, police brutality, globalization, poverty, capitalism — you name it — without the preachy condescension that often plagues her conscious rap contemporaries. Review | At the 9:30 Club, Noname proved she can out-rap most rappers — even when she’s sick 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Ziv, sifting new evidence, casts doubt on this account, raising the question of what actually happened to the Jews, and exploring the impact this has had on the contemporary Middle East. TV highlights: 25/4/2013 2013-04-25T06:01:07Z

She brings together the worlds of old woodblock prints and contemporary Japanese society in lyrical animations composed of thousands of hand-drawn images scanned into her computer and used to construct mysterious, vibrant narratives. Art: Venice Biennale Thrives Despite Tough Economic Times 2011-06-06T12:30:05Z

In some ways the show was predictable, and in some ways it was as disorienting as the contemporary world itself. “Peter Pan Live!” and a Night of Protests 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

“ACT, as a contemporary theater, has to reflect the stories of the world we live in. Unless we reach out with auditions like this, we won’t find the actors to tell those stories.” Latino auditions give voice to a more diverse stage community 2014-04-15T02:42:53Z

At a time when so many new operas, especially by American composers, pander to audiences with accessible, tepid contemporary styles, Mr. Benjamin challenges listeners with dense harmonies, skittish lines and grating eruptions. Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

It seemed to need Simon to add the contemporary story to Ramanujan’s. Simon McBurney Discusses His ?Disappearing Number? 2010-07-02T08:19:00Z

“What I think is cool about this new crop,” she said, “is that we’re acknowledging the influence of the contemporary moment right on the face of it.” This Is Not History’s Catherine the Great 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

The Magna Carta, though, with its own conglomeration of small and large concerns, its mixture of particular corrections and sweeping reforms, its history of conflicted ambitions and compromises, proves how mistaken this contemporary perspective is. Last Chance: Magna Carta at the Morgan Library: Its Birth Was a Royal Pain 2010-05-21T22:51:00Z

Ireland’s greatest living novelist occupies a unique place in the contemporary pantheon. John Banville’s New Murder Mystery Starts Like a Game of Clue 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

He put them on the runway at the Jeu de Paume — a contemporary art museum and one of this city’s statelier locations for a fashion show. Meet Yang Li, a designer putting China on fashion’s biggest stage

"But the thing that’s wonderful about it is that there’s an incredible variety of voices in contemporary writing." Obama: 'The most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels' 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Probably because many liberals see contemporary humanities education as productive of the very sort of “identity politics” that they, with increasing boldness, disparage as a mode of politics equivalent to Trumpism. Andrew Sullivan is wrong again: His mainstream liberalism has become scarily anti-democratic 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Moving forward, the exhibition design modernizes: the wainscoting recedes, the colored walls fade away, and in the last room we encounter Turner in the anachronistic surrounds of a contemporary white cube. J.M.W. Turner: The Romantic Turns Reformist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

I believe that our record of exhibitions, acquisitions, and new installations of contemporary art speak to this commitment. Letters: Response From the Director of the Brooklyn Museum 2010-08-09T19:30:00Z

Jung’s script walks this same line between early modern and contemporary, leaving some tranches of the play intact, but zhuzhing up other parts with new vocabulary and new jokes. Review: A ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Clowns Around With Tragedy 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

This exhibition tracks the club’s historical legacy and connects it with contemporary artistic practices. Datebook: The art of an influential school, video dystopia, the drawings of a Chicano activist 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

That quasi-religious belief in every person’s potential for genius persists in the ethos of mainstream contemporary art. Inspiration Made Concrete in ‘Self-Taught Genius’ Exhibition 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The others are contemporary works that take place many years and many miles away from Ibsen’s provincial Norway of the late 19th century. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Ghosts,’ ‘Blurred Lines’ and ‘The Pass’ in London 2014-02-04T18:25:15Z

In the world of contemporary dance this is as big as it gets. Pina Bausch dance cycle to be staged as part of 2012 Cultural Olympiad 2011-03-09T18:23:59Z

So, I try to write things that are contemporary that young people can just grab and pick up and read and it makes them understand that their stories matter. D. Watkins speaks for himself: "I think we can have tough conversations, make each other upset" 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Cut off from his past and uncertain about the future, he suffers from a familiar contemporary complaint that this story restively circles without naming, one that looks a lot like the modern condition. ‘The Eight Mountains’ Review: A Bond Forged Amid Splendor 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

In recent years, a number of contemporary British comedians irreverently cast Mr. Corbett against type. Ronnie Corbett, One of ‘The Two Ronnies,’ Dies at 85 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

"It was an opportunity to bring her voice to the table," Solomon says, "and to showcase the kind of repertory that she wants to work with, which includes some new and more contemporary work." A female-centric 'Streetcar Named Desire'? It's part of Music Center's 2016-17 dance season 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Ask him about Mark Bradford, for example, perhaps the most talked-about contemporary artist in recent years, and he shrugs. Alex Katz at 88: Portrait of the artist unable to slow down 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

The museum contains an encyclopedic collection of art from the old masters to Impressionists to an 11,000-square-foot contemporary design gallery. To Reach New Audiences, Museums Are Redefining What They Offer 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

He was known both for his re-creations of traditional dances from throughout the African world and for his contemporary choreographed pieces that fused African traditions with modern dance. Chuck Davis, Who Brought African Dance Traditions to America, Dies at 80 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Matute and many of her contemporaries, who were scarred by the 1936-1939 war, were dubbed the "generation of the frightened children". Spanish novelist Matute dies aged 88 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The museum also scaled back plans for its new modern and contemporary wing, initially expected to cost $600 million. The Met Goes Beyond Its Doors to Pick a Leader Who Bridges Art and Technology 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

Sandy once told me that he felt “born to do” this kind of opera, to take part in productions that looked deep into standard works to find contemporary resonances. A Singer for Whom Words Always Came First 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

These ideas, and Gordon's work of art, proved to be touchstones for Marisa Sanchez, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art at SAM, as she organized the Andy Warhol exhibition that accompanies "Kurt." Review: SAM shows about Cobain and Warhol are daring ? and they really work 2010-05-20T23:08:00Z

The long, low, timber sideboard became a kind of theme tune, now once again in favour with collectors of mid-century "contemporary" design. Ronald Carter 2013-05-30T14:09:38Z

Of course, the music performed was written in the language of the contemporary audience for which it was intended. Music Review: ‘Venezia, From the Streets to the Palaces,’ at Miller Theater 2012-09-13T22:25:32Z

They filled their grand Paris apartment with antique furniture and covered its walls with Impressionist, Cubist and contemporary paintings. Pierre Bergé, Transformative Fashion Executive, Dies at 86 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Last week the Australian Ballet performed at City Center as part of the Fall for Dance Festival, and Chunky Move, a contemporary troupe, appeared at the Joyce Theater. Dance Review: Sydney Dance Company Visits the Joyce - Review 2011-11-09T23:16:01Z

But it was the final pairing that not only illustrated how much terrain a contemporary musician has to master but also assertively demonstrated how it’s done. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble Plays Fulmer and Kapica 2010-04-30T20:24:00Z

The center is emphasizing the need to grasp the contemporary moment, but what about the past as prologue? Reinventing the International Center of Photography for the Selfie Age 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

Though Spanish missionaries grew grapevines in Arizona in the 16th-century colonial era here, the state’s contemporary production is considerably younger. Sedona for Serenity, Spas and Now Syrahs 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Maybe by the end of the festival, listeners will have a clearer idea of what specifically characterizes Japanese contemporary music. New Juilliard Ensemble’s Focus! Festival Under Joel Sachs 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

I don't read a lot of contemporary fiction that's true to the world. Slap author Christos Tsiolkas takes swipe at 'dry' European fiction 2010-08-15T17:58:00Z

Appearing here wasn’t just a chance for contemporary artists to pay tribute to one of their heroes, but an opportunity to fix themselves in his shadow. Bon Iver, Feist, Arcade Fire — and More — Cover Peter Gabriel 2014-01-06T17:26:36Z

She believes the renewed interest in his work reflects a “need for forms of writing and thinking that differ from what prevails in contemporary American literature.” It Took Nearly 30 Years. Is America Ready for Ben Okri Now? 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

But they have undergone serious makeovers, to look more like people a contemporary kid might see on television or in the streets. Theater Review: ‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine 2012-08-10T04:58:42Z

The program also included two contemporary works inspired by earlier scores. Music Review: A Violinist Layers Bach With Relative Newcomers 2011-01-31T23:34:50Z

New museums are opening, foreign galleries are alighting and corporations are plowing money into contemporary art. Inside South Korea’s Art-Mad Capital 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

Baroque imagery, bizarre humour and labyrinthine plots made his elusive and allusive oeuvre unlike anything else in contemporary cinema. Ra?l Ruiz obituary 2011-08-19T14:53:12Z

Mr. Galliano, one of the greatest design talents of contemporary fashion, has also sought treatment for alcoholism over the last two years and has apologized for the events. On the Runway Blog: John Galliano Begins His Fashion Recovery 2013-01-18T16:43:11Z

Both show and catalog were overseen by Clare Davies, associate curator in the Met’s department of modern and contemporary art, who has commissioned an insightful essay from the art historian Briony Fer. Best Art Between the Covers of These Holidayx Books 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

For starters, contemporary literary fiction is filled with academics, because most fiction writers are academics. From Wonder Boys to Irrational Man: why Hollywood loves a hot professor 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the consensual politics of "Wonderland" – a gentle guying of absolutism – that helped blind its contemporary admirers to the weird things its author was doing to the body of a small girl. Big on littleness 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

And she worried that her rockabilly fans would rebel at more contemporary stuff. Rockabilly Queen Prolongs Her Party 2011-01-23T02:30:15Z

Young says contemporary satirists have been reluctant to compromise their status as outsiders. How John Oliver started a revolution in US TV's political satire 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

He tweeted around 79,000 times in over a decade spent on the platform, a pace that dramatically eclipsed his contemporaries. David Crosby, a King of Twitter 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

Yet the most compelling contemporary works reveal complicated relations to historical African art. ‘Disguise: Masks and Global African Art,’ Where Tradition Meets Avant-Garde 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mazursky, he added, “has created a body of work unmatched in contemporary American cinema for its originality and cohesiveness.” Paul Mazursky, Director Who Captured a Changing America, Dies at 84 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Glenn Kurtz says that most contemporary viewers of the footage see it differently from how survivors do, because survivors can see what’s beyond the frame. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Q: The theme of corruption is integral to this film, which is set in contemporary Romania, and “4 Months,” which takes place in 1987. ‘Graduation’s’ Cristian Mungiu on ‘compromise as a personal choice and corruption as a social phenomenon’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Kitchen designer Jennifer Gilmer of Jennifer Gilmer Kitchen & Bath , based in Maryland and Virginia, finds that 85 percent of new homeowners are choosing the cleaner, more contemporary and simple style of a galley kitchen. The galley kitchen is hot: The increasing appeal of smaller cooking spaces 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

Asquith's great contemporary, Alfred Hitchcock, was also drawn to the world beneath London. Mind the werewolf: the London underground in film 2013-01-09T05:59:01Z

She immersed herself in contemporary Arab literature and became a passionate advocate for the Palestinian cause. Barbara Harlow, Scholar on Perils of Resistance Writing, Dies at 68 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Shot mostly in west London, the five interconnected short films combine to build a radical portrait of the contemporary city, which is recognisable yet retains a sense of wonder at life’s little coincidences. Idris Elba: ‘If I'm going to watch TV it wouldn't be a period drama, put it that way' 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

And while the conventional wisdom, speaking in broad generalities, is that classical-music audiences don’t like contemporary music, art audiences are supposed to embrace the new. Art or music? The National Gallery of Art provokes ears and thoughts.  ​ 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

For me, the classical world actually feels very contemporary, very much what is happening now. ‘I Feel an Abundance’: A Composer Dips Into the Dance World 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Putting her character front and center also helped unlock the show's major storytelling strategy: mirroring the parallel mysteries, from the 1950s village setting to the contemporary publishing story and back again. "Magpie Murders" is a metafiction marvel: Anthony Horowitz on adapting his mystery within a mystery 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

“Fantastic Beasts” is indeed fantastical, but many themes and references, like the Magical Congress’s color-coded threat index, are pointedly contemporary. In ‘Fantastic Beasts,’ a Jazz Age World of Fancy and, Yes, Fear 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

African contemporary art museums, whose acquisitions might send different value signals, are still desperately rare. In Dakar, African Art Speaks in All Its Voices 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

The music is performed by Mr. Stevens, on keyboards and electronics, and Yarn/Wire, a contemporary chamber group of two pianists and two percussionists. Sufjan Stevens Brings the Rodeo to BAM 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Then it suddenly vanished, its whereabouts unknown until February, when Fine Art Auctions Miami included it in auction of contemporary works, with an expected selling price between $500,000 to $700,000. ArtsBeat: New Plan to Auction Banksy Mural Rekindles Battle 2013-05-13T17:28:20Z

If you set aside the idea of surveillance and think about the experience in the language of contemporary art, you might understand it as an interactive painting in real time. Perspective | Ai Weiwei succumbs to the tyranny of fun 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

The second half of the exhibition will focus on camp as expressed in the work of contemporary designers, from the use of trompe l’oeil to pastiche, irony, theater and exaggeration. Met Costume Institute Embraces ‘Camp’ for 2019 Blockbuster Show 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Esplund reminds us that all art was contemporary when it was created and that to separate our era’s works from the past “cuts us off from our histories, distances us from ourselves.” Review | How to open your mind — and your heart — to contemporary art 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

The river’s prominence and renewal, though, have created contemporary challenges. The backstory for ‘A River Runs Through It’ has arrived, 45 years later 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

Show business: Justly famous for superb and comprehensive retrospectives, mixed with the cutting edge of new-release documentaries, plus a smattering of contemporary releases and repertory German classics. Cine-files: Babylon, Berlin 2011-07-12T09:00:10Z

In contemporary culture, physical attractiveness isn’t typically presented as a package of fertility and a lure to procreation. Deana Lawson Reveals Hidden Grandeur in Her Uncanny Portraits 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

In the project titled “Sculpture 56,” 11 galleries are showing contemporary work in this medium at the same time. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Ballet isn’t like contemporary dance, where the dancers are constantly using the time with the choreographer to improvise and develop material that way. Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z

It was a contemporary performance that nonetheless fit beautifully into a venerable play. How Laurie Metcalf Became the Sarah Bernhardt of Broadway 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

“I guess it took a team effort,” said Ms. Snyder, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received a master’s degree in modern and contemporary art and design from Christie’s Education, London. Brought Together by a ‘Team Effort’ 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

If such sleek, unexamined images of violence against women — this wasn’t the only one in “Odessa,” but to me the most prominent and inexplicable — weren’t so pervasive in contemporary ballet, I might have felt differently. No More Gang Rape Scenes in Ballets, Please 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

“In today’s art world there is a definite interest in different mediums — textiles, fabrics and ceramics — people are trying to find new and innovative ways to present contemporary art,” Taggart said. Dumpster find leads to rediscovery of artist Francis Hines 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Unlike most contemporary art works, which make you wonder about the artist’s technique or agenda, Parreno’s inspire other questions: Is this it? An Art of Loopholes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

But the ability to inspire “unhinged” interpretations — or at least renditions that remind us that there is nothing standard about the so-called standard repertory — is a must, as is a genuine commitment to contemporary music. The New York Philharmonic and the Search for a New Music Director 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Like his contemporaries Kenneth Grange and Terence Conran, he had been involved as a student in the Festival of Britain in 1951 and absorbed its excitement and hopes for raising standards of design in Britain. Ronald Carter 2013-05-30T14:09:38Z

A new wing, designed by the Dutch architect Mels Crouwel, will include more space to show off its world class collection of modern and contemporary art. ArtsBeat: Two Amsterdam Museums to Reopen After Major Renovations 2012-09-05T22:22:37Z

The contemporary experiences of refugees, or even the urban homeless. Adventuring while female: why the relationship women have with nature matters 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

This pop-up exhibition features more than 70 mixed media works by a wide array of contemporary artists from Cuba. Datebook: A show about radical weavings, rooms that rain, architectural photography 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

In each of its seven seasons to date, Dissect focuses on a different contemporary album, diving into the structure, production and musical choices that make it so distinctive. 7 Podcasts for Music Lovers 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

This exhibition examines the artist’s legacy, placing his work alongside contemporaries like Courbet and later artists like Gauguin, van Gogh and Kandinsky. What's on This Week Around the World 1462-08-11T05:00:00Z

She began traveling the world to educate herself on the contemporary market. When Contemporary Art Speaks to This Collector, She Listens 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Disappointed, Butler left the world of popular entertainment and went back to school to study contemporary dance. Escape from “Riverdance” 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

But the emphasis on making Hamlet our contemporary has its drawbacks. Review: ‘Hamlet’ as an After-Party That Got Out of Hand 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

It will house five cinemas, a vast contemporary gallery space, a 500-seat theatre, education space and a cafe. Cinema and theatre get together for ?19m Manchester arts adventure 2010-12-09T16:17:00Z

The collection on Sunday felt completely contemporary, yet still in the Ford glamor mode. On the Runway Blog: London Fashion: Rethinking Luxury 2012-09-17T00:53:01Z

Old friends sometimes lose their dominance while new arrivals have the attraction of novelty and contemporary realism. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

“So much of contemporary art is about transformation, and I think that’s something that teens are uniquely suited to connect to,” said Audrey Hope, the museum’s associate educator for high school programs. Spare Times for Children for June 15-21 2012-06-14T22:46:48Z

From antiquities to contemporary pieces, “The Midas Touch” sale on Oct. Going for gold: Sotheby's to hold first sale dedicated to precious... 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

To a contemporary audience, conditioned to accept previously unimaginable degrees of screen and television carnage, this “Ben-Hur” feels disturbingly and appropriately up to date. Review: ‘Ben-Hur’ Is a Savage Update for a New Generation 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

It served as the original home of On the Boards, a presenter of contemporary performance now at the base of Queen Anne Hill, and now St. Michael Ethiopian Orthodox Church holds it services there. Washington Hall, Seattle's cultural Ellis Island, reopens with a house party 2010-04-27T20:32:00Z

A director working with this repertoire must somehow rise above the music and unlock the text into contemporary relevance, a hard task. ‘Pirates of Penzance’ Gives Lift to English National Opera 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

With "Solo," the 39-year-old Iyer displays his command of a variety of styles, further cementing his reputation as one of the most distinctive and adventurous contemporary jazz pianists. 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z

If you’re marking the fifth anniversary of recording artist Michael Jackson’s death by reading the recently released memoir by his bodyguards, you may be surprised to learn that Jackson loathed recording with contemporary artists. Five years later, Michael Jackson’s still exploitable 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Tamhane spent four years researching, filming and editing “The Disciple,” which follows a would-be classical music vocalist who struggles to balance his craft’s centuries-old traditions with contemporary Mumbai. ‘The Disciple’ returns India to Venice film fest competition 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Guare also strikes a sharp contemporary note when Napoleon, having ceded the Louisiana Territory for the then exorbitant sum of $15 million, predicts that the rapidly expanding country will be riven by irresolvable conflict. Theatrical Stumbles of Historic Proportions 2010-12-10T16:02:00Z

The state ballet, meanwhile, will put on a lively lineup of dance pieces, with a particular focus on contemporary works. Performance Guide for Autumn 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

There is a biting irony to the history lesson of “Partners in Design”: how contemporary and covetable it all looks. These Obsessive Men of MoMA Furnished Your Modernist Home 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

With his legendary cinematographer Raoul Coutard, Godard discovered the future – unevenly distributed, then as now – in contemporary Paris without building a single set. Jean-Luc Godard: a beginner's guide 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

He saw contemporaries moving around the country from one college campus to another, churning out ultra-specialized work aimed at burnishing their professorial credentials. Gabino Iglesias, a Writer of Noir, Explores the Texas Underworld 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

The Terminator played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, though, has a special mission—to go back in time and kill a contemporary Los Angeles woman who’s destined to give birth to the computers’ fiercest human enemy. Movies 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

The spoken word artist Kate Tempest, the singer songwriter PJ Harvey and the alt singer and producer Santigold are among the artists who will appear at this eclectic contemporary music festival. Performance Guide for Autumn 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

The first Scottish Tectonics runs for two days this weekend, a mix of contemporary classical, experimental, improvised and electronic events, with the music of famous US avant-gardist Alvin Lucier as its focus. Lana Del Rey, Mikal Cronin, The Bad Plus: this week's new live music 2013-05-11T05:00:15Z

One slightly less endearing feature of Dunthorne's contemporary voice, however, is his strict avoidance of the present participle when using the verbs "to stand" or "to sit". Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne ? review 2011-07-29T21:58:00Z

He is grateful for the performances, he added, but does not conceal his feelings about the state of contemporary opera and the commitment of companies to stage new works. Santa Fe Opera to Stage Lewis Spratlan?s ?Life Is a Dream? 2010-04-11T21:56:00Z

In drawing attention to the breadth of contemporary Indigenous performance — with works spanning dance, theater, performance art and genres in between — the Dialogues are something rare for New York, if not unprecedented. A Showcase for the Abundance and Breadth of Indigenous Performance 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

Foreign collectors of African contemporary art are currently obsessed with the current trend of figurative painting and Black portraiture, notably from Ghana, but for many here the work fails to impress. In Dakar, African Art Speaks in All Its Voices 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

The “serious” contemporary hetero-male novel is a thinly veiled Story of Me, as voraciously consumptive as all of patriarchy. If Lena Dunham wrote a memoir 2012-07-22T16:00:00Z

Strauss and Sibelius, almost exact contemporaries born in the mid-1860s, were not close colleagues, and their musical personalities and priorities could not have been more different. Strauss Joins Sibelius?s Vacation 2011-07-22T15:31:19Z

They tend to be secular and non-denominational, contemporary in setting, and steering well clear of the dark, difficult, complex story of Jesus's birth itself. The Santa supremacy: Peter Bradshaw's top Christmas movies 2010-12-15T21:30:07Z

Bach and his contemporaries, played by music director J. Reilly Lewis and assistant Todd Fickley, the latter was more assured in execution and more varied in registration. Marking Johann Sebastian’s birthday with a tribute to the Bach family 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Val as Romeo sprinting to her with all the hope of youth, the whole contemporary routine was a flowing, pretty iambic pentameter come to life. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: NASCAR's Michael Waltrip sputters out 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

But the studio ran into the problem of how to broaden the audience and lure younger people with more contemporary music tastes. Pandora turns up new audience for James Brown biopic 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

When you can have visitors again, they'll admire your collection of contemporary art. Style Invitational Week 1381: Let’s get equinoxious with fictoids 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

They’re both timeless and contemporary, immortal but changeable, appearing in Victorian dress or punk attire, depending on what century and culture they’re moving through, and reflecting changing attitudes. ‘The Sandman’ Is Coming to TV. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal. 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

That conviction has driven her to become one of Europe’s most prominent collectors, as well as a patron of living artists and an evangelist of contemporary art. An Art Patron’s Mission to Share Her Collection With the World 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

I’d recommend the anthology “The Book of Tokyo,” which brings together stories by 10 contemporary Japanese writers. Read Your Way Through Tokyo 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Far too rarely does contemporary fiction and nonfiction provide the needed escape, regularly being gloomy, earnest and replete with finger-pointing and breast-beating. Review | Cheer yourself up with light comedies from another era 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

He cited the Shanghai Biennale, a contemporary art fair organized by the Shanghai Art Museum, as an example. Special Report: Art in Perspective: A Contemporary Artist Takes Helm at Chinese Bank's New Contemporary Museum 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z

Are you hip enough not to be stung by their satires of contemporary mores? This week's new live music 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

“Gunaratne has a gift for inhabiting the lives of his characters, and has used that gift here to give voice to Londoners who are not often seen in contemporary fiction.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

When the K-pop band Blackpink released the music video for their song “How You Like That” in June, fans began asking about the group’s outfits, which appeared at once traditional and contemporary. A Centuries-Old Korean Style Gets an Update 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

Very contemporary and 1970s all at the same time. Datebook: Hammer Biennial, Santa Ana sound art and lots of color field 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Recently Steel abandoned her predictable contemporary world of the rich and famous overcoming adversity, and ventured back into the Regency. A Roundup of the Season’s Romance Novels 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

The Joyce Theater’s upcoming season will span many styles and eras, ranging from a reimagining of “Swan Lake” to a performance from the contemporary dance ensemble BalletBoyz. Joyce Theater AnnouncesFall/Winter Season 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

In this documentary, an impressive number of contemporaries and students testify to her contributions to the art form, and to the fact that creativity requires people behind the scenes as well as on the stage. Movie Listings for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

This is the ideal sound-world for anyone wishing to approach contemporary music for the first time. begins with young Max driving his mother to distraction with yet another fit of childish exuberance gone too far. Taking Maurice Sendak's fantasies to the opera 2012-10-29T11:50:39Z

Belin said there is a diverse appetite for modern and contemporary masterpieces and the market is expected to remain strong. Sale of Chinese painting shows art value rising in pandemic 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

Ernaux, one of France’s leading contemporary writers, mines her shame to good effect. Buying Dora Maar’s Diary on eBay and Other Classy Tales From France 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

The show’s largest piece, a sculptural environment by the contemporary Mexican artist Damián Ortega, is more poetic than practical. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Reopens 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

It was my first contemporary dance performance in years, so the notes I took were an exercise in clichés — “raw emotion,” “lithe bodies,” that sort of thing. Frugal Traveler: In Europe, a Few Coins for a Wealth of Culture 2013-06-21T18:25:25Z

Oja said the work is best described as contemporary: "I find it very alive, almost like improvisation." Estonia operetta lyricizes economic austerity 2013-04-06T09:01:05Z

His visually beautiful, sly and idiosyncratic biographical portrait of the great 17th-century Italian artist is an enduring delight, and particularly interesting relative to contemporary discourse concerning artists behaving badly. ‘Caravaggio’ and Other Pleasures and Provocations for Pride Month 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

The result is a beguiling mix of contemporary minimalism with Baroque and Rococo busy-ness. T Magazine: Pazzo Palazzo 2010-10-14T19:00:00Z

Two contemporary works that were written for the players showed a different side of their artistry. Review: Danish Piano Trio Shares Well-Loved Sounds and Little-Known Gems 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

We haven’t yet seen tons of contemporary festivals pop up around the country. Time-Based Art Festival in Portland, Oregon 2011-09-25T04:00:04Z

Lewis, but with a sardonic, contemporary lilt of its own, "The Magicians" was a lively, addictive read. 'The Magician King:' Ready or not, young magicians grow up 2011-08-18T23:50:05Z

Instead, they are part of a broader cultural movement – a contemporary mermaid craze deserving of critical attention and appreciation. Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough — look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

Their Palais de Tokyo in Paris — Europe’s largest contemporary art center, and one of its least polished — proves that art doesn’t need pristine spaces; it needs spaces that work. 10 Ways for Museums to Survive and Thrive in a Post-Covid World 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

These questions arise as one of the most eagerly anticipated private museums of contemporary art in the country approaches its opening here next week. Review: The Broad Is an Old-Fashioned Museum for a New Gilded Age 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z

I just want to apply a contemporary sensibility to pottery. | Takuro Kuwata 2013-01-17T14:00:26Z

Bray that you’ll shiver with pleasure; a legendary author’s gorgeously written medieval fantasies in a lavish edition; and two excellent collections of contemporary weirds. Michael Dirda’s holiday book picks 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

The controversy also draws attention to the paucity of contemporary Native American representation in American museums. Sam Durant sculpture of gallows in Minneapolis to be dismantled and ceremoniallyburned 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

The PBS bulletins are a brilliant resource – for teaching, writing, thinking about contemporary poetry and its history. What the Poetry Book Society means to poets 2011-04-05T08:56:01Z

On the 12th floor of the W Hotel in Hollywood, during an afternoon talk the dance music conference IMS Engage on Wednesday, Seth Troxler explained the nuances of contemporary dance music for Chuck D. IMS Engage: Chuck D, Seth Troxler and Kaskade on the state of EDM 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

“Time Shelter,” she said, explores his experiences in relation to the universal human condition and “addresses contemporary Bulgaria as part of Europe.” This Bulgarian Writer’s Books Bend Time 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

She plans “to read books cited in my grandmother’s 1919 diary to see what contemporary fiction was like 100 years ago.” Perspective | Conquer ‘Moby-Dick,’ finish ‘Infinite Jest’: Avid readers share their resolutions for 2021 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

The event attracts thousands of visitors eager to see the latest offerings in the contemporary art world. In pictures 2011-06-03T07:55:17Z

Amid the cherry-picked examples and bald pronouncements, I believed that she was criticizing women because she cared about women, that she was questioning the contours of contemporary feminism because she was a feminist herself. In defense of Katie Roiphe 2012-09-04T19:52:00Z

So why bother, as in “Nixon,” to lure us to a fictional enterprise with contemporary characters and scenes from an active memory bank? A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z

“We were founded in the early ’90s in London to tell people about what was exciting in contemporary art and what was going to be interesting in the future.” As Frieze London Matures, Choices Push Boundaries 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

And for all the carping about spending from contemporaries, he did actually achieve something of lasting value. George IV: the rehabilitation of Old Naughty 2011-08-28T20:00:05Z

I do think Hakim is largely right about the hypocrisies implicit in contemporary feminism's attack on female "erotic capital" – and she's certainly right about patriarchal attitudes. Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital by Catherine Hakim ? review 2011-08-19T09:00:02Z

“Anti-Establishment,” a group show that examines contemporary art’s relationship with art institutions, opened Saturday. The Week Ahead: June 24 — 30 2012-06-26T05:01:01Z

"Sherlock," a contemporary version of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, was among the nominees announced Monday. `Accused' gets International Emmy drama nod 2011-10-07T16:47:07Z

The epics are not only used to portray contemporary political issues. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z

The accessions have dramatically transformed its holdings of contemporary art, sculpture, American paintings and works on paper. Homeless art, lost jobs and low enrollment: Two years later, Corcoran’s breakup still stings 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Just as we had specified a contemporary Indian play – as opposed to, say, a historic, poetic drama – we were also proposing a vocabulary of playwriting. Royal Court's New Plays from India: snapshots of the subcontinent 2012-11-09T14:53:47Z

Bright, contemporary objects punctuate rooms full of dun-colored antiquities. Three years and $56 million later, Seattle Asian Art Museum is reinvented and set to reopen 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Ms. Riley, an originator of Op, is now one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary painters. Op Art Through a Latin Lens 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

“There are more buyers than sellers. That sends a good signal for New York,” he added, referring to the auction houses’ bellwether contemporary auctions in May. London Art Auctions May Herald a Market on the Upswing 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

But the Yiannopoulos controversy is made harder to parse by a slippery characteristic of contemporary book publishing: the sheer size of publishing conglomerates, and the vast, often ideologically contradictory, array of books that they peddle. Milo Yiannopoulos’s Cynical Book Deal 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

A show at the TriBeCa gallery R & Company features contemporary objects inspired by the American flag. New York Design Destinations You Can’t Miss This Month 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

The most glamorous philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, and in many respects the most contemporary, died in the autumn of 1494. A Renaissance Murder Mystery 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, its contemporary associations are all over the place, from delicate jewelry to kitschy wall décor. Transforming metal: ‘Metalmorphosis’ exhibit at BAM shows new possibilities 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Furthermore, she said, he was the only individual artist to successfully bring step dancing into a contemporary context since the form rocketed from obscurity to fame, and then running-joke territory, with the “Riverdance” phenomenon. Colin Dunne Brings ?Out of Time? to Baryshnikov Arts Center 2011-10-16T04:00:08Z

The best works in the show can put you in mind of Bruce Nauman, Eva Hesse and other leading American sculptors who sought to rescue contemporary art from the ice storm of Minimalism. A Rare Look at Rauschenberg’s Second Act 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

Catherine Wood, curator of contemporary art and performance at Tate Modern, has had several meetings with Hütter. Why Kraftwerk are still the world's most influential band 2013-01-27T09:00:03Z

Now 34 and the mother of two, she runs the world’s largest collection of documentation on contemporary Asian art, housed in an airy, high-tech library. Female Factor: Bringing a Woman's Touch to Chinese Art Scene 2011-01-20T12:30:05Z

All museums should periodically assemble shows that ignore the distinctions among contemporary art, design and craft. Art Review: Visual Culture Out of Africa 2010-12-02T23:49:00Z

“When it comes to contemporary Indian food, New York is years behind,” he said. Baar Baar, Serving Modern Indian, Opens in the East Village 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Nor does she attempt to put Nietzsche in the context of his great fin de siècle contemporaries and admirers including William James, Freud, Gide and Shaw, among many others. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Something wild comes our way courtesy of that brilliant producer of contemporary circus, Crying Out Loud, which has brought so much breathtaking work to these shores. This week's new theatre 2010-05-28T23:07:00Z

First and foremost is something that contemporary home economists often noted: that for many years the production and preparation of food has been steadily migrating out of the home. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z

He chose the one in front of the contemporary art museums for its symbolic value. Jeff Koons Sent Paris Flowers. Can It Find the Right Vase? 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

“He’s such a technician and this classicist and also contemporary and free — he’s an investigator, you know?” The Wild Life and Times of a Soon-to-Be Former City Ballet Dancer 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

“Double Take: From Monet to Lichtenstein,” presented at his pop culture museum in 2006, paired Impressionist works with old masters, modern and contemporary pieces. Christie’s to Sell Paul G. Allen’s $1 Billion Art Collection 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

The Los Angeles-based artist Andrea Bowers epitomizes the contemporary art scene in two ways: She addresses social justice in much of her work, and she varies her use of media depending on the piece. At Museums and Auctions, Paintings, Posters and a Magician’s Treasures 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

“We like being able to show both the perspective of Wagner’s time as well as a contemporary point of view.” Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists’ New Work for the Opera Stage 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Another explanation may simply be that Mr. Johns is one of the few contemporary artists who has persisted, over a long career, in taking mortality seriously as a subject. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z

A contemporary Australian play about two star-crossed teenagers in a dead-end Outback town looking for love and escape. Last Year’s Fringe Festival Successes Look Back 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

The third in a series of rapidly organized exhibitions on contemporary culture, “Aware” takes as its subject the mutable nature of sartorial identity. | 'Aware: Art Fashion Identity' 2010-12-06T22:15:00Z

The one has always required the other — from the Baroque spectacle of 17th-century operas, with their deus-ex-machina gimmickry, to the stagecraft required to mount any contemporary production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z

But as a novelist who writes fiction set in contemporary America, I can’t put my head in the ground. Novelist Dubus now looks homeward after gritty memoir 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Bacon has long been a blue chip in what I called a few years ago in this column “historic Contemporary,” meaning art that is actually not contemporary because the artists are no longer alive. Auctions: A Serious Moment for Contemporary Art 2011-07-01T13:30:36Z

Like many other contemporary Italian composers, Iannotta put her effort into getting standard orchestral instruments to sound unlike themselves. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla takes the lead in an inspired women's night with the L.A. Phil 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

We are also reminded that the seeming misogyny that runs through much of what’s described here is hardly to the taste of these contemporary narrators. Review: Reliving Those Arabian Nights in ‘Pay No Attention to the Girl’ 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

Alex Temple’s imaginative “Liebeslied” for female voice, electronics and orchestra showed that all styles of older contemporary music are fair game, including American standards and show tunes. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-10-16T20:08:49Z

Schott/EAM, a publisher of contemporary composers, recently posted an inspiring list of works from its catalog appropriate for social distancing. So You Want to Be a Socially Distanced Orchestra 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

It is this fictional Antoinette, with its exaggerated references to excess and luxury in relation to femininity and rich visuals, that has most influenced our contemporary digital iteration of the queen. Marie Antoinette — extravagant French queen has long been a symbol of female excess 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z

There is, in other words, much to appreciate about contemporary movies this year. Manohla Dargis’s Top Films of 2012 2012-12-15T00:37:44Z

Kent says that tattoos can help a contemporary piece look more . . . contemporary. How ballet dancers flaunt — and hide — their tattoos on stage 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The three choreographers represented on the program — Mr. Cherkaoui, Akram Khan and Crystal Pite — are all usual suspects of European contemporary dance, and not one of the works was new to New York. Review: Ballet Vlaanderen Is a Company in Search of Itself 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

And the contemporary works should have had their own gallery, as was the case with the Met’s recent Winslow Homer retrospective, “Crosscurrents.” The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

The look of “I Do” is distinctive, the colors deep, the sets contemporary. Indian Soap Operas, Ruled by Mothers-in-Law 2012-12-25T22:38:41Z

Meanwhile, Philips Classics started the label Point Music to, as one executive put it, “redefine what is considered ‘classic’ music”; BMG Classics launched its Catalyst imprint for contemporary music aimed toward a youthful MTV audience. How a Somber Symphony Sold More Than a Million Records 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

An art collector, he and his former wife, Linda, gave $5 million to the Ringling largely in art, but also in funding for a contemporary art gallery that carries their name. In Florida, It’s ‘Go West’ for Arts Donors and Patrons 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Whether it’s slow food, slow cities or slow fashion, the idea is to deliberately and thoughtfully counteract the fast-paced, unsustainable, impersonal aspects of contemporary life. April 8 is Slow Art Day; here are some ways to take it easy with art 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Smiley is a master storyteller, with a penchant for turning archetypal allegories into seemingly straightforward, contemporary narratives. Jane Smiley brings 'Some Luck' to readers 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

And it’s the equivalent, among its contemporaries, of such celebrated art sanctuaries as Naoshima in Japan and Louisiana in Denmark. Perspective | Is Glenstone a great art museum or a billionaire couple’s folly? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Unlike newspapers and television of the Vietnam era, which reported dramatic stories of draft file burnings and the resultant trials, contemporary media seem bored with nonviolent actions, so the voices have been muted.” ‘Doing Time for Peace’: hard time for the peacemakers 2013-03-27T22:28:15Z

It celebrates the moment they believe the Wicked Witch is about to get the red shoes and uses the skill of the dancers most of all – it's a very contemporary piece. Arlene Phillips: 'The Strictly row doesn't really die down' 2011-03-20T00:05:15Z

Set in contemporary Seoul, “The Plotters” delivers a vivid portrait of a mesmerizing central character, a stoic orphan named Reseng who becomes an assassin for hire. The best thrillers and mysteries of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

But for lovers of contemporary bluegrass and country music's Appalachian roots, "Up on the Ridge" is a thrilling ride from start to finish. Billboard CD reviews: Kylie Minogue, Dierks Bentley 2010-06-25T22:00:00Z

On view through Sunday will be more than 30,000 artworks, including contemporary and antique jewelry. At Art Fair, Jewelry Is More Than the Sum of Its Gems 2012-03-19T11:30:25Z

“Monica, O My Darling” is Bollywood’s answer to “Knives Out”: a retro murder mystery that combines the beloved elements of the genre with a stylishly contemporary sensibility. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

His contemporaries and friends included Theodore Roosevelt, the forester Gifford Pinchot, the photographer Edward Curtis and leaders of the Blackfeet and Cheyenne. The Forgotten Man Responsible for Our Most Iconic National Parks 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ray, whose career paralleled the ups, downs and triumphant and difficult studio detours of the contemporary independent film movement, was one of its most heroic figures. Bingham Ray, Light of October Films and Daring Cinema 2012-02-03T19:51:30Z

The museum, at Columbus Circle, champions contemporary craftsmanship and innovation in the field. Christopher Scoates Is New Director for Museum of Arts and Design 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

One of the most intriguing is Powerhouse Arena, where readings, book launch parties, temporary art exhibits, and conversations with contemporary literary voices are hosted in an amphitheater-style seating space with soaring 24-foot ceilings. The 15 Coolest Bookstores From Around the World 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Here, all four movements seem to conform too comfortably to the template of what a successful contemporary violin concerto needs to be. Salonen: Violin Concerto; Nyx – review 2012-10-04T20:49:00Z

Sadler's Wells' annual taster-programme has a fine track record in introducing new audiences to a range of ballet, hip-hop and contemporary dance. The best dance for summer 2013 2013-05-26T18:40:01Z

But for you it’s notable that he chose those things and not, for instance, the more extravagant styles you may have seen on a contemporary of his like Iceberg Slim. The Making of Black Ivy Style 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

It inserts the contemporary reader into other locations and times, while leaving no doubt that its viewpoint is relentlessly modern and speaks entirely of our extreme present. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Hari Kunzru's Searchers in the Desert 2012-03-09T18:53:02Z

Professor Green Alive Till I'm Dead Virgin music Here is a recipe for contemporary pop success. Professor Green: Alive Till I'm Dead 2010-07-15T21:30:00Z

Throughout the work, Khan, known for his mix of classical Indian kathak and contemporary dance, does little to transport ballet vocabulary to a new place. Review: Witching Up ‘Giselle.’ (The Horror, oh the Horror.) 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

What other concerns might the show be addressing about contemporary society? Scott M. Gimple on ‘The Walking Dead’ and What Those Zombies Are Really Eating 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Among the legends featured in the numerous contemporary interviews — as well as the flurry of archival photos and film clips — is Kitty West, who performed on the half shell as Evangeline the Oyster Girl. | 'Behind the Burly Q': Tempest Storm and Kitty West in a Nod to Burlesque 2010-04-22T23:22:00Z

The story is flecked with the gossamer wings of fairy tales that fall awkwardly in this contemporary setting. Stephen King and Owen King imagine a world where women aren’t woke 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

Called, simply, “Mike Kelley,” the exhibition delivers a mordantly misanthropic vision of contemporary life with terrific theatrical élan. Review: Mike Kelley Uncorks Superman’s Kandor City in a Bottle 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

In comparing Toledo with her contemporaries in the cafeteria, it is tempting to call her a grownup. Remembering Isabel Toledo, a Designer with Few Peers 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

Because competitor Cheryl Burke chose a “contemporary” dance number for him and Kelly Monaco. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Paula Abdul Guest Star Edition 2012-10-16T12:30:22Z

"Zaha's passion, personality and sheer talent were all essential to her success and her undeniable importance in the history of contemporary architecture." Why we talk about Zaha Hadid's gender and ethnicity even though her architecture transcended both 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Nineties food seems to have endured in contemporary restaurant menus – without irony – in a way that earlier decades don’t. Nigella Lawson: my life in food 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

Keret is one of Israel’s most beloved contemporary authors, whose books include “Suddenly, a Knock on the Door” and “The Seven Good Years.” ‘I Feel a Human Deterioration’ 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

The orchestra will present a series of concerts for PST: LA/LA featuring work by contemporary Mexico City composers. Argentine slums and a Unabomber cabin: How 'Home' at LACMA rethinks ideas about Latin American art 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

The result: perfect harmony between contemporary design and natural splendor. Visit a Modern Oasis for Wine Enthusiasts 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art formally reintroduced the building as the Met Breuer, its new Brutalist outpost for Modern and contemporary art, and the gathering was an altogether quieter affair. A Look at the Met Breuer Before the Doors Open 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

It’s a nice mix of old and new — contemporary interiors within a 16th-century building — and closer to the harbor. The Europe Issue: A Fashion-Forward Guide to Antwerp 2011-04-15T18:55:00Z

Why did the preservation of untrammeled nature require the expert application of contemporary nurture? Critic?s Notebook: Where the Lenape Trod 2011-11-03T22:02:38Z

In a series of essays anthologized in his 1995 book “Text and Act,” he argued that the use of period instruments and techniques was an outgrowth of contemporary tastes. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

“I think he feels strongly about the role of art inside contemporary civilizations.” Guggenheim Gets New Chairman, and Second Ever Black Female Trustee 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

“There was not a double Lincoln, split between the lawyer and the politician,” writes Blumenthal, whose view of his historical subject was almost certainly shaped by his experience with his contemporary patrons. Abraham Lincoln's early life is recast by Sidney Blumenthal in the masterful 'Wrestling With His Angel' 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

“She would be given things that were more contemporary, more dramatic. I was trying to be upfront with her.” A ‘Rogue Ballerina’ Gives a Candid Account of Ballet Culture 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

At the time, I was working on an essay about dating apps in contemporary fiction, and I asked ChatGPT if it too could recommend books where people swipe in search of sex, I mean love. The A.I. Concierge, Fictional Fiction, Real Vodka 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z

Brown tells the story of contemporary Cuba by following the cortège of Fidel Castro in late 2016 as it makes its way from Havana to Santiago and snapping pictures of the roadside crowds. New & Noteworthy 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

As for much of the contemporary audience, Mr. Klein said, “Maybe they were seeing their first glimpse of modern art.” That Noisy Woodpecker Had an Animated Secret 2011-04-10T22:05:14Z

“This exhibit explores politics more broadly than just the American election system,” explained Jen Mergel, a senior curator of contemporary art at the museum, and organizer of “Political Intent.” Art and Politics Meet in Boston, Sometimes All Night 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

After “Sophisticated Lady” came two Martins duets set to scores by contemporary American composers. Dance Review: City Ballet’s Program of Peter Martins and Robbins at Koch Theater 2013-05-17T20:16:37Z

This all-consuming story rages along, bright and scalding, illuminating three intertwined lives in contemporary India. Review | Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Burning’ is blazing up the bestseller list and emerging as the must-read novel of the summer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

Some who document today’s genderless look in Japan tend to treat it as if it were a contemporary phenomenon. Japan’s long history of blurred sexualities and gender-bending 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

"The dominant culture of contemporary poetry is promotional in outlook and anti-intellectual in spirit," he says despondently at one point. Poetry and Privacy by John Redmond – review 2013-06-21T17:30:00Z

Ultimately, Mr. Gorecki’s Third sold over a million records, an extraordinary number for an album of contemporary classical music. How a Somber Symphony Sold More Than a Million Records 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

“Bounce 2 This,” which sounds directly pulled from the wee hours of a live P-Funk show, displays a satisfying kind of cosmic slop that is too rare in perfection-focussed contemporary soul. An Inescapable Voice on "Black Messiah" 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

We draw on the historical collection as well as the contemporary collection. A Masterful Debut, but Can It Rise to Greatness? 2010-05-12T12:30:00Z

BBC2, August I Am Slave A one-off drama from the people who created the feature film The Last King of Scotland, tackling the issue of slavery in contemporary Britain. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z

In the center of a bustling town that’s almost 5,000 feet above sea level, this contemporary boutique property is a placid retreat. Bike touring Madagascar, a biologist falls in love with the wildlife 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

There were further daily doses of Boulez, added to a heady diet of contemporary music. Feeling the sonic rush at the Ojai Music Festival 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Attributes include a living-room-like lobby with contemporary art and a coffee and cocktail bar, as well as a bar on the rooftop. In Transit Blog: Citizen M Hotel to Open in New York 2014-03-27T17:01:12Z

But not all of Shakespeare’s contemporaries took his newly minted status at face value. Shakespeare: Actor. Playwright. Social Climber. 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

“A lot of museums are focused on a false dichotomy — if they get young people in through contemporary exhibitions they’ll stay and get interested in old masters,” said Ian Wardropper, the Frick’s director. Can the Old Masters Be Relevant Again? 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

For Barbara Gladstone, the gallery’s owner, including Murray’s work in group shows with more contemporary artists to expand her audience is one of her top priorities. Elizabeth Murray Estate Moves to Gladstone Gallery 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Remembering that these towns are not eternally bucolic may help contemporary viewers find greater relevance in Sisley’s serene prospects. Alfred Sisley: The Unheralded Impressionist 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

If you had to, you could say that the sound of Harold O’Neal’s small groups files neatly enough under contemporary jazz. The Playlist: Christine and the Queens’ Clever Pop, and 8 More New Songs 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Like his aforementioned musical contemporaries, Jagger was quick to use his stardom to get into acting proper, starting with two back-to-back starring roles in 1970. Rolling back: why we should welcome Mick Jagger's big screen return 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Life imitates art, and our reaction to tropes familiar in contemporary art influences how we perceive Lin’s work. Review | Maya Lin’s forest in a Manhattan park makes a point about climate change. Is anyone listening? 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

The equivalent Impressionist and contemporary auctions last February grossed £190.2 million with fees. Auction Sales Down at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, in a Challenging 2016 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Indeed, the inhabitants of Skull Island are situated squarely in a prehistoric time-frame, separate from the contemporary time inhabited by the explorers. "Godzilla vs. Kong": Monster movies evoke adventure but also "dangers" of tropics 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z

Because that leads to misunderstanding in evaluating contemporary issues. The head of National Museum of the American Indian on what we should all know 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

But the exhibition still heralds a new chapter in the ways contemporary art approaches race and culture. ________Stepping Into the Expansive Worlds of Black Imagination 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

It features 48 modern and contemporary works — from Charles White and James van der Zee to commissions by emerging artists — together with highlights from the Evans collection, presented in vitrines and on digital browsers. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

Mr. Azari created a contemporary version by digitally manipulating the picture to include images from contemporary news footage and video clips. Shoja Azari Puts New Faces on Islamic History 2010-05-20T20:28:00Z

Photograph: Paul Allitt As director of Kettle's Yard between 1992 and 2011, Michael Harrison, who has died of cancer aged 65, transformed this delightful Cambridge gallery into a dynamic and illuminating space for contemporary art. Michael Harrison 2013-05-12T12:13:50Z

And work from the early days of printing, when almost every edition was distinct, looks so “weird and unexpected” to contemporary eyes. Shakespeare died 401 years ago, but original scripts from his era live on in a new digital archive 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

And yet Belgium’s pool of discriminating and discreet contemporary art collectors continues to be a draw for big-name international dealers. Brussels Art Week Expands at a Tricky Time 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Musicals of all stripes and sizes, superb design effects and a strong array of contemporary dramas marked 2013 in Seattle theater. And now: The 2013 Seattle Times Footlight Awards 2013-12-31T22:33:19Z

At the Met he will be a curator in the modern and contemporary art department. Inside Art: A Glenn Ligon at National Gallery; John Cage at MoMA 2012-11-15T23:35:19Z

Is Los Angeles, in 2019, the equal of New York as a center for contemporary art? The Los Angeles Art Scene Looks to the World 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

I agree with Claudia that there’s no center to contemporary dance today, and that Cunningham’s influence is stronger. ArtsBeat: A Critics Conversation: Modern Dance Madness 2012-04-03T14:14:19Z

With caption information at the back of the book, distinguishing the contemporary from the vintage is tough. A history of Dior couture as photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, in a new book from Rizzoli 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

This annual festival, now in its third year, celebrates contemporary dance with Italian roots and features a robust lineup of international and local artists. Dance Listings for July 22-28 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

It’s part of a series of work “that established Turner’s contemporary fame and reputation as the greatest seascape painter that ever lived,” said Julian Gascoigne, director of early British paintings at Sotheby’s. Famed British seascape by J.M.V. Turner up for auction 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

It’s not a White Cube situation,” said the curator Felix Hoffmann, referring to the famed contemporary art galleries. In Transit: In an Old Berlin Post Office, a Gallery Flourishes 2010-12-26T11:01:02Z

The seven New York City Ballet dancers who performed in BalletCollective’s “What Comes Next” program looked fresh, unaffected, contemporary. Review: A Group of Young Dancers, Conversing With their Feet 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

It speaks well of contemporary civilisation that it allows Ms Salcedo to memorialise its dead. Die and do 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The contemporary films that earned nominations are "Angels & Demons," "The Hangover," "The Hurt Locker," "The Lovely Bones" and "Up in the Air." 2010-01-11T08:28:00Z

Instead, there’s more universal salmon, and it’s one of the kitchen’s more contemporary selections, finished with artichokes striped from the grill. Review | The steakhouse may be a cut above, but the real treat is in the tavern below 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z