Art: At the Four Arts, pages of faith, pages of light If Hollywood can bring us a Noah with special effects, monks should be able to bring us a radiantly abstract Bible. And that’s exactl... Read More... More in: Art

Film: The View From Home 59: Hawking’s history, a gruesome morality tale, coming A Brief History of Time: For years, Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time has been sitting on my shelf, its spine ashamedly uncracked, waiting for t... Read More... More in: Film

Theater: Theater roundup: ‘Dividing the Estate’ and ‘Evita’ Take economic bad times, add a land-rich but cash-poor clan brimming with selfish money-grubbers and you have a recipe for a dysfunctional family play like Dividing the Est... Read More... More in: Theater

Dance: MCB’s ‘Don Quixote’ falls a little short of satisfying By Tara Mitton Catao Of all the full-length classical ballets, it is Don Quixote that continually delights audiences, and Miami City Ballet’s production was selected to be a crowd-pleaser as well as ... Read More... More in: Dance

Music: Strong singing stands out at fine FGO ‘Tosca’ Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca is, with the exception of the one-act Il Tabarro, the most veristic of the Italian composer’s works, and it needs a lot of good red blood to make it wor... Read More... More in: Music

Interviews: Whit Stillman: Chronicler of the urban haute bourgeoisie There are people like you and me in Whit Stillman’s movies, but they’re outnumbered by a different class of folks: Worlds of big money and elitism and cocktails and intellectual pedantry, where ter... Read More... More in: Interviews

Books: ‘Sixth Extinction’ is an urgent, chilling warning More than 60 million years ago a 6-mile-wide asteroid crashed into Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs. Four other mass extinctions in the past 450 million years destroyed countless other animal and plant species. I... Read More... More in: Books

Weekend Picks: Weekend arts picks: April 11-13 Film: OK, it’s not a great weekend for film releases, but if you are still going through withdrawal after the football season, you can get a fictional look at the Cleveland Browns’ fro... Read More... More in: Weekend Picks

News & Commentary: Sundays: Being and un-being By Myles Ludwig The untimely passing of Peaches Geldof was the big news in Britain this week. It was the top-trending topic on the staid BBC and banner fodder for the tab... Read More... More in: News & Commentary

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