Arts
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Alex Garland Answers the Question: Why Make a Film About Civil War Today?
Even before his drama was released, the writer-director faced controversy over his vision of a divided America with Texas and…
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Where Are New York’s Best Acoustics? We Took a Listening Tour.
The composer Michael Gordon and members of Mantra Percussion tested the piece “Timber” in resonant spaces around the city. Here…
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In Martha Diamond’s Art, She Took Manhattan
What Frank Auerbach did for Camden Town, Monet did for Paris and De Chirico did for piazzas all over Italy,…
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Did You Really Need to Be There to See It?
On Monday at 3:20 p.m., the Kodak Tower, Eastman Business Park, the George Eastman Museum, and the rest of the…
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Can Adriano Pedrosa Save the Venice Biennale? No Pressure.
Only workaholics and delusional optimists should organize a Venice Biennale, as the Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa discovered during the countless…
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Wyatt Flores, a Rising Country Artist, Has a Superpower: Tapping Emotions
The 22-year-old singer and songwriter makes music that touches listeners deeply. But his own trauma — coupled with his rapid…
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Savages! Innocents! Sages! What Do We Really Know About Early Humans?
In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell…
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Is This Maternity Hospital Haunted, or Is It All a Pregnant Metaphor?
In Clare Beams’s eerie new novel, “The Garden,” nefarious things are afoot.
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What Happened When Captain Cook Went Crazy
THE WIDE WIDE SEA: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, by Hampton Sides…
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Climate Change Is Making Us Paranoid, Anxious and Angry
THE WEIGHT OF NATURE: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains, by Clayton Page Aldern We know, often with abject…