Arts
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In Venice, a Conservative Painter Stages an Unpopular Rebellion
Poland’s right-wing government tapped the artist Ignacy Czwartos for the Venice Biennale before it was voted out of office. The…
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Why Electro’s Exacting Duo Justice Wanted to Break Its Own Rules
For “Hyperdrama,” Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay’s first album in eight years, the duo added genre experiments and guests…
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Music Catalog Giant Hipgnosis Agrees to $1.4 Billion Sale to Concord
Hipgnosis, which owns the rights to songs by Justin Bieber and Neil Young, helped kick-start a rush on catalog sales.…
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Jorie Graham’s Poetry of the Earth and Humanity, Set to Music
The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music…
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‘Gun & Powder’ Review: Twin Vigilantes Stake Claim to the American West
The musical traces the story of Black twin sisters who pass as white, and exact their own form of justice…
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‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: War, Undemanding
Guy Ritchie’s latest is the platonic ideal of an airplane movie, which is not exactly a good thing.
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In ‘Franklin,’ Michael Douglas Uses His Charm to Bankroll America
A new Apple TV+ series dramatizes the years Benjamin Franklin spent in France, leveraging diplomacy and guile to secure his…
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Review: ‘The Wiz’ Eases Back to Broadway
Almost 50 years after it debuted, this classic Black take on “The Wizard of Oz” tries to update its original…
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Quick. Someone Get This Book a Doctor.
Not every workplace features a guillotine. At a book conservation lab tucked beneath the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum…
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Marjane Satrapi on Resistance in Iran: ‘A Real Revolution Is Cultural’
The author, known for her “Persepolis” series, is releasing a new illustrated book about the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, inspired…