Arts
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Orlando Museum Accuses Ex-Leader of Seeking Profit From Fake Basquiats
The museum filed a lawsuit accusing its former director, Aaron De Groft, and others of using the institution to try…
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They Make CrossFit Documentaries. CrossFitters Can’t Get Enough.
A series of films about the annual CrossFit Games, enthusiastically embraced by the niche fitness community, have become surprise hits…
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The Metropolitan Opera Guild Will Wind Down Amid Financial Woes
The organization, founded in 1935 to support the opera house, will lay off 20 employees and stop publishing Opera News…
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A Farewell to Mostly Mozart, and to Its Music Director
Louis Langrée led a week of concerts to conclude his two-decade tenure with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra.
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A Novel Traces the Many Lives of a 19th-Century Romantic
William Boyd’s new book follows one man from childhood to death, and the globe-spanning adventures in between.
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A Rollicking Tragicomic Tale of Unending Family Drama
In Paul Murray’s new novel, “The Bee Sting,” an Irish family faces economic ruin after the 2008 financial crash. And…
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The Artist and Mystic Who Collected the World
Harry Smith lived many lives. “Cosmic Scholar,” a new biography, details his earthly ones.
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Unusual Suspects
Every child is a detective. It comes with the territory. Childhood is a constant state of trying to unravel the…
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Purging Books, Making Art and Ruling Chicago
An editor recommends two escapist biographies.
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This Isn’t Barbie’s First Time Onscreen: She’s Been a Movie Star for Decades
Before Margot Robbie’s live-action take on the doll, Mattel put out more than a dozen animated films that have an…