‘Terce’ Review: How the Other Half Prays, in a Reimagined Mass

‘Terce’ Review: How the Other Half Prays, in a Reimagined Mass

And it’s more of a spectacle than a service. Instead of emulating a leader-follower dichotomy, “Terce” draws from the talents and experiences of a singing, dancing and playing ensemble of 38 “caregivers and makers” — some professional and even virtuosic like Christian, some amateur and unpolished. Keyboards, guitars, woodwinds, strings and percussion are part of…

How a Culture Editor Covers the Kids’ Entertainment Beat

How a Culture Editor Covers the Kids’ Entertainment Beat

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Laurel Graeber grew up loving the theater and museums. But she never thought she would write about them for The New York Times — or that she would do so for nearly three decades. “I…

Orlando Museum of Art Drops Legal Claims Against Owners of Fake Basquiats

Orlando Museum of Art Drops Legal Claims Against Owners of Fake Basquiats

The Orlando Museum of Art announced Friday that it was dismissing its legal claims of fraud and conspiracy against five co-owners of paintings who touted them as the creations of the art world legend Jean-Michel Basquiat and lent them for a 2022 exhibition. In a statement, the museum’s board chairman, Mark Elliott, said that in…

‘American Fiction,’ ‘Origin’ and the Pressures Black Writers Face

‘American Fiction,’ ‘Origin’ and the Pressures Black Writers Face

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame,” a young Langston Hughes proclaimed in an essay nearly 100 years ago. “If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn’t matter.” Seeking to establish his autonomy as a Black writer, he…

The Legal Question at the Center of the Alec Baldwin Criminal Case

The Legal Question at the Center of the Alec Baldwin Criminal Case

Now that a grand jury has indicted Alec Baldwin on a charge of involuntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the film “Rust” in New Mexico in 2021, the contours of the looming legal battle are coming into focus. If the case reaches trial, the challenge prosecutors face will…

Read Like the Wind: Nesting Books

Read Like the Wind: Nesting Books

As a young girl, I inherited my mother’s library of Betty Cavanna books. Cavanna was a Y.A. novelist who wrote sensitive, intelligent coming-of-age stories about teenagers, often featuring well-researched milieus: a struggling Vermont inn, a Pennsylvania ranch, a fishing community. “Paintbox Summer,” in which the aimless protagonist is sent to Cape Cod to work as…

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