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Moussa Touré’s La Pirogue, Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad

Lucia Perillo’s On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths.

It's the antidote to the consumerism and cynicism that define our culture.

Artists can open a space of possibility in politics, but their role is problematic—and not always positive.

By providing free instruments, we use music to help rehabilitate prison inmates.

My Tante Rezia was a patron of the arts, one of those silent supporters that every family, every artist, has and needs but rarely acknowledges.

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained; Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse

Nathan Englander’s play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, focuses on the moment that Yiddish culture in Russia died a sudden and unnatural death.

Can recordings of classical music ever be in concert with concert hall performances?