Arts
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18 New Books Coming in January
Mercury, by Amy Jo Burns Burns’s second novel introduces the Josephs, a roofing family in Mercury, Pa., who — along…
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Audiobook of the Week: How to ‘Contain’ the Threat of A.I.?
In “The Coming Wave,” the British social activist turned tech entrepreneur Mustafa Suleyman explores the existential risks of our new…
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The ‘Fantasy Dreamscapes’ of Basil Pao
Like his Surrealist forebear René Magritte, Basil Pao began his artistic career as a graphic designer, creating album and book…
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‘The Three Musketeers’ and the Joy of Old-School Blockbusters
With its practical effects and broad-minded approach to story, the French franchise revives the pleasures of earlier movie spectacles, but…
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Botticelli, Beyond the Renaissance
Viewers gravitate to his astonishingly tender paintings, but at the Legion of Honor, his preparatory drawings offer a view of…
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Simpleton? Genius? Who was Tom Smothers?
He was close with John Lennon, and had a sophisticated understanding of wine, politics and literature. He only played the…
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How Cancer Has Influenced, but Not Controlled, a Musician’s Work
“The music stays as beautiful as it is,” said Andreas Staier, an eminent interpreter of early keyboard music who has…
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5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Surveys of works by Helvi Leiviska and Louis Wayne Ballard, as well as a restored version of “Cavalleria Rusticana,” are…
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A Crybaby Year for Men in the Movies
In 2023, male characters pouted elaborately after something they saw as their birthright was put in check.
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Video Games Let Them Choose a Role. Their Transgender Identities Flourished.
Transgender people have turned to games, some with robust character creators, as places where they can safely express themselves.