Arts
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Rap Takes Over Super Bowl Halftime, Balancing Celebration and Protest
Leading up to Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show, much ado was made over the fact that this would be the…
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Review: An Audition Season Begins at the Philharmonic
It’s audition season at the New York Philharmonic. Well, not officially. But ever since the orchestra’s music director, Jaap van…
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Review: In Miami, a ‘Swan Lake’ That Blasts Off the Cobwebs
MIAMI — The swans make all the difference. Alexei Ratmansky’s “Swan Lake,” performed by Miami City Ballet in its North…
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After Pak and Beeple, What’s Next for NFT Collectors? Art Made With a Paintbrush
Felix Xu started his NFT art collection by purchasing a Chromie Squiggle, generated by an algorithm. Today, Xu, a 29-year-old…
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Seen ‘Inventing Anna’? Here’s What It Gets Right (and Wrong)
The new Netflix series “Inventing Anna,” about the con artist Anna Sorokin, better known as Anna Delvey, includes a playful…
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Whether He’s Talking ‘Amélie’ or ‘Bigbug,’ Jean-Pierre Jeunet Doesn’t Hold Back
The French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a conjurer of whimsical visions for the big screen, like his most beloved work,…
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Mifune’s Transcendent Films, With and Without Kurosawa
Toshiro Mifune once wrote of his collaboration with the director Akira Kurosawa, “I have never as an actor done anything…
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A Dance to the Music of Time and T.S. Eliot
In its beginning is its end. In its end is its beginning. Those tail-eating lines, paraphrased from “Four Quartets,” the…
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Watch Jennifer Lopez Perform in ‘Marry Me’
In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their…
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Review: Even With Hugh Jackman, ‘The Music Man’ Goes Flat
There comes a moment in the latest Broadway production of Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” when high spirits, terrific dancing…