A BRIGHT LIGHT EN BREF: BASQUIAT AT THE FONDATION BEYELER

Is the short, hot career and early death of Jean-Michel Basquiat the cause of his celebrity, or is it a diversion making the assessment of his work cliché-driven and shallow? The Fondation Beyeler wades into the debate.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 – 1988)
Photo courtesy of Fondation Beyeler

REVIEW: GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: HAMLET
Joel Kasow on Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet seen on PBS screens in the United States this summer.

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A LUMINOUS EVENING AT THE OPÉRA BASTILLE

The Paris Opera Ballet offers up their exquisitely light, yet deeply moving, production of Kaguyahime, Jiri Kylian’s retelling of the Japanese fable, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.
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THE IMAGINED DÉNOUEMENT: 3
HOW TO SURVIVE AN ATOMIC BOMB 
In the latest of his "Imagined Denouement" series, O. Tyrone Shulaise proposes what the final page of a book might be, based solely on the appearance of its cover.