“He’s going to die any minute now,” a college classmate of mine said in 1994, when the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra had just turned eighty and we were eighteen. I asked if the poet was sick or something ...

Trainer Michael Matz switched Nicanor to the turf for his fourth career start and it clearly suited the colt well, as he demolished a maiden special weight field by 15 1/4 lengths at Delaware Park May ...

Nicanor, the only horse to beat Denman but unseen on a racecourse since April 2006, could make his debut over fences at Grade One level this weekend as Noel Meade, his trainer, steers him back towards ...

He's been called the "Ghost of Barbaro". Already, people are clamoring to see him run his first race. His name is Nicanor—and he might be the savior horse racing has been looking for. Nicanor is by ...

Nicanor Parra, a Chilean poet whose use of direct, colloquial and playful language, often for ironic and comic effect, pioneered the literary movement that became known as anti-poetry, died on ...

Manhattan’s Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has had a rough couple of years. The Upper West Side art and architecture museum shut down in March of 2020 alongside other New York institutions ...

Maria Nicanor is the director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. An architecture and design curator and historian, she is passionate about public access to culture and rethinking ...