Arts
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Jussie Smollett, Once an ‘Empire’ Star, Is Now in the Cook County Jail
It was an extraordinary ending to an unusual hearing. Jussie Smollett, sentenced to five months in a Chicago jail, stood…
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Jussie Smollett Is Sentenced to Jail for False Report of a Hate Crime
A judge in Chicago sentenced Jussie Smollett tofive monthsin jail on Thursday, ordering that the actor be incarcerated for falsely…
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Jenny Hval Makes Ideas Sing
For many artists, self-consciousness is almost an enemy: a barrier against free-flowing inspiration, a choke point for creativity. But the…
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Review: Gustavo Dudamel Could Be the New York Philharmonic’s Future
On Wednesday, when the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center hosted a news conference announcing that the $550 million renovation…
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As Museums Become Her Ally, Suzanne Lacy Brings Her Activism Inside
LOS ANGELES — On a cold day last December, sitting outside her studio in Santa Monica, Calif., the artist Suzanne…
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LeBron Fandom, and the Making of a Friendship in ‘King James’
CHICAGO — When the actor Glenn Davis talks about his new play, “King James,” he gets some variation on this…
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Before Jussie Smollett Sentencing, His Supporters Ask for ‘Mercy’
Ahead of a sentencing hearing on Thursday, celebrities and racial justice advocates like Samuel L. Jackson and his wife, the…
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Al Pacino on ‘The Godfather’: ‘It’s Taken Me a Lifetime to Accept It and Move on’
It’s hard to imagine “The Godfather” without Al Pacino. His understated performance as Michael Corleone, who became a respectable war…
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With ‘The Godfather,’ Art Imitated Mafia Life. And Vice Versa.
A table for five at CaSa Bella in Little Italy in the late 1970s included a few mobsters, a girlfriend…
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Review: ‘The Chinese Lady’ Casts a Long Look at Hate
Afong Moy is known as “The Chinese Lady,” but really she is just a girl — 14 when she arrives…