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Thursday, October 10, 2024

Portraits in Life and Death by Mark Dery

Decadence and decay, freedom and friends: Peter Hujar’s 1976 photo book captures the utopia of dystopia. Portraits in Life and Death, by Peter Hujar, foreword by Benjamin Moser, introduct…

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Thursday, June 6, 2024

Stories Are Weapons by Mark Dery

A new book by Annalee Newitz chronicles the use of storytelling as propagandistic tool. Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, by Annalee Newitz, W. W. Norton, 24…

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Thursday, May 23, 2024

Francesc Tosquelles by Mark Dery

The radical visionary who created a psychotherapeutic collective in Vichy France. Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut, installation view. Courtesy America…

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Flowers of Evil by Mark Dery

Of blood and beauty: a rerelease of Baudelaire’s 1857 collection, translated by George Dillon and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Flowers of Evil, by Charles Baudelaire, translated by George Dil…

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Thursday, September 21, 2023

Monica by Mark Dery

Hawthornian horror gets the postmodern treatment in Daniel Clowes’s latest graphic novel. Monica, by Daniel Clowes, Fantagraphics Books, 106 pages, $30 •   •   • In 2016, …

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Monday, May 25, 2015

Nightshade Is Growing Like Weeds by MARK DERY

NEWS bulletin from the spirit world: The specter of Edward Gorey, who died in 2000 at the age of 75, is haunting our collective unconscious.

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic