Arts
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Prototype, an Essential New York Opera Festival, Turns 10
“There are all these unbelievable artists who are creating work that’s really hard to define,” Beth Morrison, a music theater…
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When the Camera Can’t Turn Away, These Women Force Us to Listen
Films as different as the biopic “Till” and the thriller “Resurrection” use lengthy monologues to give female characters the chance…
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For ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ a Star Built From Tiny Gears and 3-D Printing
The studio behind stop-motion hits like ‘Coraline’ and ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ started work on the new film in 2008 but…
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SZA Spends a Third Week Atop the Album Chart With ‘SOS’
Mariah Carey led an avalanche of Christmas songs on Billboard’s singles chart as holiday music lingered into the last week…
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Tanks and Teddy Bears: Ukrainian Children Paint the War
An artist from Lviv has brought works by young people affected by the Russian invasion to a museum in Chicago’s…
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The Gay Rights Movement Before the Gay Rights Movement
In his debut novel, “The New Life,” Tom Crewe reimagines the lives of two pioneers who studied, and supported, homosexuality…
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In the ‘Cozy Catastrophe’ Novel, the End of the World Is Not So Bad
Originally published in 1939, “The Hopkins Manuscript,” by the British writer R.C. Sherriff, inaugurated a genre of post-apocalyptic fiction in…
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‘The Unheard Symphony of the Planet’
surfacing ‘The Unheard Symphony of the Planet’ Using a tiny device called a Raspberry Shake, people around the world are…
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One Indelible Scene: A Donkey’s Escape in ‘EO’
About a third into his story, the hero of “EO” — a small gray donkey — trots into a forest.…
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Gangsta Boo, Memphis Rapper Formerly With Three 6 Mafia, Dies at 43
Born Lola Chantrelle Mitchell, she was one of the first female rappers to build off the gangster rap image and…