Festival
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World
Firecrackers and Ice: 5 Must-See Festivals in Asia This Winter
Catch a mountain trout on a frozen South Korean river, witness a fiery pelting of devotees in Taiwan or find your cold-weather bliss in a Japanese snow maze.
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World
As Israel Weighs How to Honor Oct. 7 Victims, Festival Exhibit Serves as ‘Hallowed Space’
A backgammon set suspended midgame. Tents and folding picnic chairs dotted among the trees. A psychedelic dance floor with downtempo and chillout trance playing in the background as video screens show images of flushed, ecstatic young people moving ...
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Books
Greta Gerwig to Head Cannes Film Festival Jury
The director and writer behind “Barbie,” “Little Women” and “Lady Bird” will help pick the winner of next year’s Palme d’Or, the festival’s main prize.
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Books
Camaraderie and Visibility: A Festival for Black Classical Musicians
“You feel like you’re home,” a bassoonist said of the Gateways Music Festival, which for 30 years has provided Black musicians with performing opportunities.
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Books
Under the Radar to Return, With New Partners
The festival of experimental work is planning a citywide event at multiple venues in January, after the Public Theater declined to fund the 2024 iteration.
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World
‘We Are Waiting’: Family of an Israeli Hostage Marks Her Birthday
At the home of Yakov and Liora Argamani, Oct. 12 has long been a day for celebrating their daughter’s birthday. This year, though, it is a day of sorrow for the Argamanis, after their daughter, Noa, now 26, was seen on video being kidnapped Saturday ...
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World
Video captures concertgoer being kidnapped by militants.
Videos verified by The New York Times show a woman — an attendee at a music festival that fliers said celebrated “free love” — being kidnapped by what appear to be militants on Saturday during a wave of ground incursions into Israel from Gaza. The ...
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The Wide World of Puppetry Converges on New York
This year’s International Puppet Fringe Festival surveys puppetry traditions from around the globe, and celebrates the legacy of the master puppeteer Ralph Lee.
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Books
At Glamorous French Festivals, Poverty is Only Onstage
The opening productions of the Avignon and Aix-en-Provence Festivals brought tales of the down-and-out to well-heeled spectators. It got awkward.
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Newyork
Can New Jersey’s New Festival Top Coachella or SXSW? It Thinks So.
A new arts festival featuring local and marquee-name talent is coming to the Garden State.