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Look to Dance to Understand the Everyday, and Other Lessons From Gia Kourlas The Times’s Culture editor has questions. Our critic has answers. Lauren Lovette, a member of New York City Ballet and one of many dancers whose relationship to body image changed during the pandemic.Credit.Jingyu Lin for The New York Times relies on critics, reporters and editors in every field of the arts for their expertise. Now we’re bringing his personal questions and our writers’ answers to you. He’s currently wondering about how the pandemic has changed the way everyone (including dancers) thinks about their own bodies. It’s just one of the questions he posed to the Times dance critic Gia Kourlas. ....
Save this story for later. In the past year alone, Liza Minnelli has outlived the Copacabana, Christopher Plummer, and Robert F. Kennedyâs Instagram account. She has outlived Larry King, Mary-Kate Olsenâs marriage, and the blockage of the Suez Canal. She has outlived Queen Elizabeth IIâs dachshund-corgi mix, Vulcan, and the Queenâs husband, Prince Philip. She has outlived the Pacific Theatres and ArcLight Cinemas, Century 21, the search for Lady Gagaâs kidnapped French bulldogs, and the Manhattan restaurateur Sirio Maccioni, at whose now-defunct French eatery Le Cirque she once performed an impromptu version of âNew York, New York,â during the birthday party of the gossip columnist Liz Smith. (Smith died in 2017, so Minnelli has outlived her, too.) ....
Save this story for later. The first time that a deceased person was nominated for an Academy Award was in 1929, the very first year of the ceremony. Poor Gerald Duffy, who wrote the titles for the silent film “The Private Life of Helen of Troy,” had died the previous June. Not only was Duffy gone but his profession was dying, too talkies had arrived, and the award for Best Title Writing (won by Joseph Farnham) was discontinued the next year. It wasn’t until 1940 that an Oscar was won posthumously, by Sidney Howard, the screenwriter of “Gone with the Wind.” Over the decades, this group has come to include Peter Finch (“Network”), the lyricist Howard Ashman (“Beauty and the Beast”), and Heath Ledger (“The Dark Knight”). It’s all but certain that Chadwick Boseman will join their ranks, on April 25th, for his incandescent performance in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” ....
Save this story for later. The history of a single square foot of Manhattan can yield lifetimes of information. In “Decoding Manhattan,” a coffee-table book to be published later this month, the editors Antonis Antoniou and Steven Heller don’t dutifully outline or summarize the island’s history or geography rather, they revel in the flights of fancy that Manhattan has inspired. They mix eras, genres, and media to tell a multifaceted story about an infinitely layered place. The sheer amount of specific detail and ephemera that the authors have gathered for a city that changes so rapidly is heartening proof that, even as a new stratum of the city devours the one that came before it, there’s ....