This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. When Daniel Merritt became chief curator of an art museum at 32, he did not expect his profession to require him — or the public — to put on skis. But …
The cold open: In television, it’s a scene that begins an episode before the title sequence, often without leading characters but almost always with foreshadowing hooks to confound or set a mood. Theater doesn’t really have much of a cold open tradition. The expectation is that you introduce the main …
‘Drunk Black History’ Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. at Littlefield, 635 Sackett Street, Brooklyn; littlefieldnyc.com. Derek Waters had an epiphany: Alcohol can make history more interesting and funnier. So in 2007 he created “Drunk History” by plying his friends with liquor, recording them as they channeled their inner Jon Meachams …
By bending time and leaning on nonlinear storytelling, “Nickel Boys” joins a recent trend of contemporary Black filmmakers relinquishing the impulse to frame Black stories chronologically. Adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross’s film tells the story of Elwood (Ethan Herisse), an idealistic Black kid …