LENOX, Mass. — The problem with “Lessons in Love and Violence” has always been that it is not “Written on Skin.” “Skin,” George Benjamin’s unflinchingly savage second opera with the librettist Martin Crimp, was hailed as a landmark at its premiere at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2012. Its stature has
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Shahzia Sikander’s Exquisite, Entangled Worlds
In a recent essay in The New York Times, the Pakistani-born artist Shahzia Sikander recalls the first question she was asked when she arrived at her M.F.A. program in the United States: “Are you here to make East meet West?” The question chafed. What could those terms possibly mean for