The piece is part of a retrospective of some 25 installations by Mr. Boltanski at MAMbo, Bologna’s municipal museum of contemporary art. With old, new and revisited work, the exhibition, curated by Danilo Eccher, touches on leitmotifs that have infused Mr. Boltanski’s striking production of Conceptual works since the 1960s, …

Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shoppers walk past a Gap Inc. clothing store in London, U.K., on Thursday, May 25, 2017. The chances of Britain’s economy picking up steam diminished further on Monday as surveys showed major companies have curtailed their investment plans and that consumers spent less …

Photo Laurie Davidson in “Will,” a TNT drama that depicts the youthful Shakespeare as he enters the London theatrical world. Credit Alex Bailey/TNT William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616, and, as the scholar Gary Taylor once wrote, “we have been reinventing him ever since.” That’s true not only of …

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Beethoven’s own intentions were not unambiguous, either. When this greatest of German composers worked on what would be his final symphony in the 1820s, his admiration for Napoleon had curdled, amid political repression, into disillusionment. In that sense, the poet Friedrich Schiller’s “Ode to Joy,” an invocation of a humanity …

“There may soon be a time when the general public completely forgets that reggae music comes from Jamaica,” said the British reggae journalist Reshma B. Photo Members of the audience in Brooklyn. Credit Vincent Tullo for The New York Times Without the benefit of major-label backing or even a mainstream …

Getty Images Donald Trump Jr. (L) and Eric Trump, sons of U.S. President Donald Trump, attend the ceremony to nominate Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court in the East Room of the White House January 31, 2017 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump Jr. met with a lawyer who had …

What’s the most surprising thing you learned while writing it? How much worse the history was than I had thought. How shocking it was. If we go back to the point that I was researching and that my father couldn’t talk about, 1959, the sect was taken over by a …

While the opera was in development, Blitzstein shared “The Nickel Under Your Foot,” a prostitute’s showstopping song about the power of money, with the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, who responded: What about the other “prostitutes” in society? (At the top of the finished score, Blitzstein wrote, “To Bert Brecht.”) Photo …

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