classics

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“It was either classics or new work,” he recalled, “and I chose new work partly because I like the partnership with the playwright in the room.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

After an $82 million expansion, New York's New Museum will bring contemporary art back to the heart of Manhattan, showcasing modern works alongside classics by Dali and Marcel Duchamp after two years closed.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

A re-recorded Rock Lobster became a minor hit, followed by similarly danceable, subtly transgressive, B-movie party classics like Dance This Mess Around, Give Me Back My Man and Mesopotamia.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

By then I expect these punchy little runabouts will be cherished as classics of the era, the twilight of the petrol gods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

On the beams of his library he had painted sixty or so quotations from the classics, all emphasizing the vanity of human life and of human aspirations to knowledge.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton