Elegant in a burnt-orange linen dress and wearing necklaces of her own design, Coreen Simpson, 82, said that because she was raised in foster homes, “I have always felt like an outsider — which is a good thing for a photographer.” But as a Black artist of an older generation,
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Thomas Adès Takes a Step Toward the Classical Music Canon
Composed for Simon Rattle’s inaugural season as the orchestra’s chief conductor and unveiled on Thursday at the Herkulessaal, it seems to pack as much into its 17 minutes as Beethoven did in his “Pastoral” Symphony, which was on the second half of the evening. (The program, which opened with the
‘Canon Event’ TikToks Use a ‘Spider-Verse’ Phrase That Almost Didn’t Make the Film
In one video, an older brother watches with dread as his younger brother gets a perm. In another, a girl agonizes while her 10-year-old sister buys a maroon lifeguard hoodie. “I can’t interfere, it’s a canon event,” read the captions on the videos, as an ominous audio clip plays in
Where Does ‘Unicorn: Warriors Eternal’ Rank in the Tartakovsky Canon?
On Friday, “Unicorn: Warriors Eternal,” the latest series from the famed animator Genndy Tartakovsky, will wrap up its first season on Adult Swim. Decades in the making, this show about a group of immortal fighters was a passion project for Tartakovsky, who is best known for award-winning series like “Primal”
Kylie Minogue’s ‘Padam Padam’ and the Queer Club-Pop Canon
Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon Music The song defining Pride month this year is Kylie Minogue’s “Padam Padam,” a thumping tease that’s lightly campy and has taken on outsize importance as a gay nightlife anthem and meme-culture staple. For Minogue, 55 — a bona fide
Debut novel 'The God of Good Looks' adds to growing canon of Caribbean literature
Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR Meghan Collins Sullivan/NPR In 2023, two of the Pen/Faulkner Award finalists for fiction, Dionne Irving’s The Islands and Jeffrey Escoffery’s If I Survive You, were crafted by authors of Jamaican descent. Another, Fire Rush by Jaqueline Crooks, was a finalist for the UK Women’s Prize for fiction.
The Changing American Canon Sounds Like Jessie Montgomery
The history of classical music in the United States is one long identity crisis: the search for a homegrown sound, free from European influence. That anxiety has manifested itself time and again as self-sabotage, with some composers — almost always white men — exalted as pathbreakers, while truly original work