Arts
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What’s on TV This Week: ‘Try Harder!’ and ‘Sheryl’
Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials…
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Delayed Philip Guston Show Opens, With a Note From a Trauma Specialist
BOSTON — In the summer of 2020, looking over a checklist of images and the installation plan for the upcoming…
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Looking Inward, and Back, at a Biennale for the History Books
VENICE — It starts in the eyes: shy or seductive, gaping or sealed shut, aqueous frontiers between the mind and…
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Stream These Three Great Documentaries
The proliferation of documentaries on streaming services makes it difficult to choose what to watch. Each month, we’ll choose three…
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Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa’s Fraught Terrain
CHICAGO — On a recent afternoon, the artist Igshaan Adams instructed me to pull up Cape Town on Google Earth…
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How to Look at a Basquiat
It’s not every day that New Yorkers can choose between two concurrent exhibitions of work by Jean-Michel Basquiat. “King Pleasure,”…
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Review: Billy Crystal Carries the Tune in ‘Mr. Saturday Night’
On the heels of “City Slickers,” just a few years after “When Harry Met Sally,” Billy Crystal was at the…
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How ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ Took On Murder and the Mormon Church
Dustin Lance Black still gets emotional when he talks about the time he left the Church of Jesus Christ of…
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Review: In a Gleeful ‘POTUS,’ White House Enablers Gone Wild
Keep your eye on the bust of Alice Paul. You remember Paul, the suffragist who helped secure the vote for…
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‘A Strange Loop’ Review: A Dazzling Ride on a Mental Merry-Go-Round
When the homophobic, God-fearing, Tyler Perry-loving mother of Usher, the protagonist of the remarkable musical “A Strange Loop,” describes her…