Robin Kirkey

A few months ago, Justin Peck, the resident choreographer of New York City Ballet, was entertaining his baby daughter with a set of building blocks as he listened to the first movement of Caroline Shaw’s a cappella “Partita for 8 Voices.”…
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Eugene O’Neill, whose insanely detailed stage directions for “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” specify even the titles of the books on the shelves, somehow forgot to mention the Purell. Also the N95s.Yet there they are, prominent props in…
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A small brick hospital in rural Bangladesh with its own zigzagging canal has been named the best new building in the world, winning the RIBA international prize 2021. A model of climate-conscious design built with the bare minimum of…
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Take the poem “Qualm,” from A SYMMETRY (Norton, 97 pp., $26.95), by Ari Banias:Patience. Rage and being told “be patient.”The birds with orange heads and dust-colored bodies bob on the power lines.The poet explains a patient is “one who…
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The Classic Stage Company’s production of “Assassins,” the Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman musical, became the latest show to cut its run short because of the coronavirus, announcing Tuesday that it would cancel its remaining…
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I looked at this video of us of the last episode of “Full House,” the final bows. We all gathered around, and Bob eventually walked over and he hugged me, kissed me. But I don’t know how close I was to him at the end there. I didn’t think I…
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SOUTH TO AMERICAA Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a NationBy Imani PerryAt the start of “South to America,” Imani Perry implores the reader: “Please remember, while this book is not a history, it is a true story.” I…
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Today, activists and descendants hope that new grants for tourism centered on the Clotilda can finally bring needed resources to the community. One states his goal to Raines: “Making right what they’ve done to Africatown all these…
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The work of Rozanne Hawksley, who has died aged 90, exemplifies the intersection of making skills, materiality and concept that characterises what is known as “textile art” in the UK. Such labelling, however, fails to capture a true sense…
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There was a time not so long ago when the Sundance Film Festival was in danger of being overwhelmed by swag, hype and other extra-cinematic preoccupations. One year, if I remember right, there were stickers all over its Park City, Utah,…
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