Arts
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‘The Velvet Underground’ Review: And Me, I’m in a Rock ’n’ Roll Band
Sometime in the 1960s, John Cale, a classically trained Welsh violist with avant-garde leanings, met Lou Reed, a middle-class Jewish…
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‘Succession’ Returns, With No Real People Involved
Deep into Season 3 of HBO’s “Succession,” Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong), the scion-gone-rogue of a family of media billionaires, tells…
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A Conductor’s Impossible Legacy
We live in a time of intense scrutiny of the moral failings of artists — even, or perhaps especially, those…
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Powerful Auction Veterans Aim New Company at Asian Market
In the latest sign of the disruption underway in the art market amid the pandemic, three powerful alumni from Sotheby’s…
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‘The Last Duel’ Review: A Medieval Epic in the Age of #MeToo
It’s no surprise that Ridley Scott, who’s made his share of swaggering manly epics, has directed what may be the…
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Former ‘Hamilton’ Cast Member Files Discrimination Complaint Against Show
A former “Hamilton” cast member filed a federal workplace complaint against the show on Wednesday, alleging that the show had…
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Anne Imhof’s Stylish (and Shareable) Provocations
PARIS — The German artist Anne Imhof stood in the Palais de Tokyo on a recent Friday morning, watching a…
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Antiquities Dealer Admits Mass-Producing Fakes He Sold for Years
For decades customers interested in all manner of rarities — ancient coins, sarcophagus masks, prehistoric fossils — went to Mehrdad…
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An ‘Allegory for Our Times’: The Royal Ballet’s ‘Dante Project’
LONDON — “Be like a jellyfish,” Wayne McGregor said, undulating his upper body expressively. The dancers on the darkened stage…
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Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged
By opening its season a few weeks ago with Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” the first work…