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Berlin, Munich, New York
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Doesn't Cover: Cat videos
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Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists' New Work for the Opera Stage

Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists' New Work for the Opera Stage

The New York Times — MUNICH - From Pablo Picasso to David Hockney and from Jean Cocteau to Marc Chagall, celebrated painters and visual artists have worked their magic on the operatic stage. This summer, some of Germany's most noted artists are lending their talents to two high-profile productions at prestigious music festivals. Published in the Arts & Leisure section and on Page One in Europe
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In Conservative Munich, a Theater Turns Radical and Defends Refugees

In Conservative Munich, a Theater Turns Radical and Defends Refugees

The New York Times — MUNICH - In the summer of 2015, the world watched in astonishment as Germans cheered crowds of refugees streaming into train stations throughout the country. Scenes from that unprecedented - and short-lived - moment of welcome form part of "What They Want to Hear," one of two current productions about exile and its ordeals at the Münchner Kammerspiele, one of Munich's, and Germany's, most important theaters.
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Lyric Chameleon

Lyric Chameleon

Opera News Magazine — Cover story of the July 2018 issue about the German soprano Anja Harteros.
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Philosophical Intonations, From Two Sides

Philosophical Intonations, From Two Sides

The New York Times — A critic's notebook about two new operas in Germany about German-Jewish intellectuals persecuted by the Third Reich
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How Otto Wagner Made Vienna Modern

How Otto Wagner Made Vienna Modern

The Wall Street Journal — One hundred years ago, as World War I drew to a close and the Austro-Hungarian Empire breathed its last, Viennese Modernism lost four of its main proponents, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Koloman Moser and Otto Wagner. Otto Wagner Of these luminaries, it was Wagner, a bold and uncompromising architect and urban planner, who left the most indelible mark on the fabric of this city.
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Louvre Abu Dhabi Melds East and West

Louvre Abu Dhabi Melds East and West

The Wall Street Journal — 'See humanity in a new light," runs the slogan of Louvre Abu Dhabi, which opened to the public on Saturday, a full decade after the project was announced by the governments of France and this oil-rich capital of the United Arab Emirates.
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What the Nazis Took

What the Nazis Took

The Wall Street Journal — A window into Cornelius Gurlitt's hoard, which contained hundreds of Nazi-looted works.
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A 'Gay Jewish Kangaroo' Takes on Wagner at Bayreuth

A 'Gay Jewish Kangaroo' Takes on Wagner at Bayreuth

The New York Times — BERLIN - In 2013, as opera companies worldwide celebrated Richard Wagner's 200th birthday, Barrie Kosky, who had recently arrived as artistic director of the Komische Oper in Berlin, declared an informal ban in his new house on works by that composer, toward whom he has long felt ambivalent.
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Mamaloschen Goes To The Movies

Mamaloschen Goes To The Movies

Contact Magazine — The cover story of the summer 2017 issue of Contact Magazine, about the contemporary flowering of Yiddish cinema
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“Berlin. Venice. Bayreuth.”

“Berlin. Venice. Bayreuth.”

Even Magazine — A magazine feature about artistic positions on the refugee crisis in Germany. Published in Issue 5, Fall 2016
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More Than Cats and Girls

More Than Cats and Girls

The Wall Street Journal — Rome The French-Polish painter Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (1908-2001), better known as Balthus, is often narrowly observed through the lens of his ambiguously erotic depictions of adolescent girls. The recently opened Balthus retrospective in Rome, however, argues forcefully and persuasively that he is more than the Humbert Humbert of the art world.
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'I never thought my films would find a large audience': William Friedkin interviewed | The Specta...

'I never thought my films would find a large audience': William Friedkin interviewed | The Specta...

The Spectator — From the Oscar winning classics of the early Seventies - The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973) - to the southern trailer trash noir Killer Joe (2011), William Friedkin has been behind some of the darkest films ever to come out of Hollywood.
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'In The Struggle Against Nazism, We Were Together' Review

'In The Struggle Against Nazism, We Were Together' Review

The Wall Street Journal — An exhibit at Moscow's Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War that is selective in its telling of World War II history.
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Review of 'Ways to Modernism: Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, and Their Impact'

Review of 'Ways to Modernism: Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, and Their Impact'

The Wall Street Journal — Vienna Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos, the two most important architects in turn-of-the-century Vienna, were born five days apart in 1870, a few dozen miles from each other in Moravia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now in the Czech Republic. Their friendship, rivalry and divergent philosophies of Modernism are explored in...
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Can There Be Too Much Mahler?

Can There Be Too Much Mahler?

The Wall Street Journal — Duisburg, Germany 'Try to imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound. There are no longer human voices, but planets and suns revolving." This is how Gustav Mahler described his towering Eighth Symphony, nicknamed "The Symphony of a Thousand" for the titanic vocal and orchestral forces deployed during the 1910 Munich premiere.
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Celebrating the Bauhaus at 90

Celebrating the Bauhaus at 90

The Wall Street Journal — Berlin No artistic movement of the 20th century has been more lauded, ­debated, misunderstood and maligned than the Bauhaus, the interdisciplinary workshop for modernity whose name has ­become practically synonymous with the stripped-down functionalism that the movement brought to architecture and ­design in the short-lived Weimar Republic. Bauhaus...
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The Science of Michel Gondry

The Science of Michel Gondry

The New Republic — Michel Gondry shows up late to the interview suite at the Ritz Carlton. He's in Berlin to promote his new film, Be Kind Rewind, which is the closing selection of the Berlin International Film Festival and opened in the U.S. on Friday.
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Kubrick's Unrealized Vision

Kubrick's Unrealized Vision

The Forward — When Stanley Kubrick died in March 1999 during the post-production of his final film, "Eyes Wide Shut," he left behind several pet projects he had been working on for decades.
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Measuring Mahler, in Search of a Jewish Temperament

Measuring Mahler, in Search of a Jewish Temperament

The Forward — Gustav Mahler was a Late Romantic composer who became one of the better-known converts from Judaism to Christianity. But according to Max Brod, the Czech musicologist and great friend to Franz Kafka, the existence of Jewish folk melodies in Mahler's music was made possible by the composer's "Jewish soul."
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