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Hilton Als became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1994 and a theatre critic in 2002. He began contributing to the magazine in 1989, writing pieces for The Talk of the Town.

Before coming to The New Yorker, Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice and an editor-at-large at Vibe. Als edited the catalogue for the 1994-95 Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art.” His first book, “The Women,” was published in 1996. Hi…

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The Expansive Joy of Mao Ishikawa

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By Hilton Als 
| The New Yorker
It’s an understatement to say that we live in a world that is at least partially defined by a surfeit of images, and that the photographs we like, or remember, are those we take ourselves. Selfies or photos documenting travel, anniversaries, the great and boring events of life—we cling to these pictures as a way of navigating where we’ve been and who we’d like to be.
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The Many Forms of Marcel Duchamp

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By Hilton Als 
| The New Yorker
“Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2),” 1912.Art work by Marcel Duchamp / Courtesy Philadelphia Art Museum / Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection Love isn’t a word, or a concept, that one usually associates with Marcel Duchamp, the modernist master of irony and distance, but love—love of the mind and what it can do, love of bodies and play, love of freedom, love of what art can be, love of women, queerdom, poetry, and chance—is what makes “Marcel Duchamp” (at the Museum of Modern Art,...
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Isa Genzken Finds Chaos in Order

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By Hilton Als , Emily Nussbaum, Sheldon Pearce 
| The New Yorker
Dance This spring is seeing a rare flocking of “Firebird” ballets: first, there was the return of Alexei Ratmansky’s, at American Ballet Theatre, and upcoming is the familiar appearance of Balanchine’s at New York City Ballet. But the most important sighting of the mythical Stravinskian fowl might be the revival of Dance Theatre of Harlem’s 1982 version, migrating back to New York for the first time in more than twenty years.
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