Arts
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Harvey Awards to Induct New Hall of Fame Members
The Harvey Awards, which honors exemplary comic book work, will be adding members to its Hall of Fame at New…
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How Much Would You Pay to Hear Great Music?
“I’m a cellist, and I have played in orchestras my entire life,” Blake-Anthony Johnson, the president and chief executive of…
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‘A Jazzman’s Blues’ Review: Tyler Perry Revisits a Jim Crow-Era Romance
“A Jazzman’s Blues,” Tyler Perry’s melodrama about ill-fated teenagers who fall in love in rural Georgia, marks the writer-director-studio head’s…
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New York Drill Rappers Say They Were Removed From Rolling Loud Festival
At least three rappers with ties to the booming New York drill scene — which has risen in popularity in…
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‘Sidney’ Review: A Lovingly Assembled Career Portrait
“Sidney,” a documentary about the actor and filmmaker Sidney Poitier, who died in January, is a compendium of hero worship.…
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The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met
At the center of “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina,” a revelatory exhibition at the…
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‘On the Come Up’ Review: Battle Rap’s Next Big Thing?
If you’ve seen “8 Mile” or the more recent cinematic delight “The Forty-Year-Old Version” you already know that in a…
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‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’ Review: Vietnam on the Rocks
In the early winter of 1968, the 26-year-old civilian Chickie Donohue arrived in Vietnam with a duffel bag of brewskis…
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How a Sooty Old Piano Helped Beth Orton Reach a New Creative Peak
Maybe the soot helped. The English songwriter Beth Orton wasn’t sure she even wanted to make another album when she…
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‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Review: Burning Down the Dollhouse
Soon into the candy-colored feminist gothic “Don’t Worry Darling,” the director Olivia Wilde tips her hand. The movie takes place…