Arts
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Steve McQueen, on a Different Wavelength
The artist-turned-film director finds new depths in “Bass,” an immersive environment of light and sound in Dia Beacon keyed to…
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Who Are the Favorites to Win Eurovision?
Some of the buzziest acts taking part in Saturday’s final hail from Croatia, Israel and the Netherlands.
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Christie’s Website Is Brought Down by Hackers Days Before $840 Million Auctions
The auctioneer’s website was taken offline on Thursday evening and remained down on Friday, days before its spring auctions were…
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‘Sally & Tom’ Frees Sally Hemings From Being a Mere Footnote
Suzan-Lori Parks’s play is the latest work by a Black writer seeking to prioritize Hemings’s life and perspective to make…
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Film Academy Looks Overseas for Donors
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced a global $500 million campaign to shore up its financial…
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Review: An Opera Saw Red-Pill Culture Coming. Now, It’s Back.
Robert Ashley’s 1994 opera “Foreign Experiences,” a portrait of a paranoid mind in free fall, is part of a wave…
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How Should an Amy Winehouse Movie Be?
Several depictions of the singer’s life have explored her tense relationship with fame. The new biopic “Back to Black” instead…
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What to Know Before Seeing ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’
Who is Caesar? And how did apes learn to talk, anyway? Your burning questions about the “Planet of the Apes”…
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‘Black Twitter’: Movements, Memes and Crying Jordan
This new Hulu docuseries explores how a social media subculture influenced American culture at large.
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On Andra Day’s ‘Cassandra (Cherith),’ a Soaring Voice Reaches Inward
After playing Billie Holiday onscreen, the singer brings jazz virtuosity to songs of her own.