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A look at New York City Center’s Ragtime in the shadow of an impending election

Ragtime is playing through November 10 at New York City Center. Source: Joan Marcus/Vulture

On the day of the presidential election, with great anticipation of a nation’s changing tune in the air — New York City Center’s new limited-run of Ragtime reaches…

Things N’ Strings Puppet Club wants you: ‘Who doesn’t love a silly little puppet?’

Illustration by Char Gossage

What’s better than a puppet? A whole room of them, of course. Things N’ Strings, The New School’s official puppet club, held its first-ever meeting this semester. Srija…

Judy Chicago’s Herstory: The art and artifice of girlbossing

Judy Chicago, “Birth Trinity: Needlepoint One, from the Birth Project” “Judy Chicago: Herstory,” 2023. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni

Well-behaved women rarely make history, but they do get DIOR sponsorships. The New Museum is now displaying “Judy Chicago: Herstory,” an exhibition that spans the sixty-year career of…

New School professor wins $50,000 Whiting Award

Anaïs Duplan received a Whiting Award at the New York Historical Society on April 6. He was honored with the award for his nonfiction book “Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture.” Illustration by Camila Giraldo

Anaïs Duplan is among many other established and up-and-coming writers that have been honored with the prestigious award. A former New School professor and celebrated poet was one…