Arts
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‘The Color Purple’ Tips Its Hat to Classic Black Musicals
The new movie has so many references to Hollywood gems like “Stormy Weather” and early jazz shorts, it can be viewed as a Black film syllabus.
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Tales of the Black Underworld Fuel Hip-Hop. His Feed Recounts Them.
ValTown, an account on X and other social media platforms, spotlights gangs and drug kingpins of the 1980s and 1990s — and how crime and celebrity often intersect.
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‘Ferrari’ and ‘The Killer’: 1 Cinematographer, 2 Very Different Looks
Erik Messerschmidt worked with the directors Michael Mann and David Fincher to create cohesive worlds that feel nothing alike.
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Watch Taraji P. Henson Sing in ‘The Color Purple’
The director Blitz Bazawule narrates a scene from the musical, featuring the star performing as the dynamo Shug Avery.
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New Year, New Show: An Original ‘& Juliet’ Star Heads Home
Melanie La Barrie thought she would make it through her last performance of “& Juliet” without succumbing to tears. She was mistaken — though contributing factors include that it was the end of a nine-show holiday week; that she originated the role ...
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Taylor Swift Breaks a Record for Most Weeks at No. 1 on the LP Chart
The latest success of “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” gives Swift 68 weeks atop the Billboard 200, surpassing Elvis Presley’s record.
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Jelly Roll, an Unlikely New Star, on the Grammys and His Rap Past
An interview with one of the year’s surprise success stories in the music industry, who’s become known as much for emotional openness as for hit songs.
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What’s in a Name? The Battle of Baby T. Rex and Nanotyrannus.
A dinosaur fossil for sale in London embodies one of the most heated debates in paleontology.
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Unfurling the Unusual Costumes of ‘Poor Things’
The designer Holly Waddington breaks down how Emma Stone’s Bella Baxter evolves onscreen, from her childish knickers to her cage-like wedding dress.
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16th-Century Beauty Secrets, Revealed
In “How to Be a Renaissance Woman,” the historian Jill Burke explores the aesthetic expectations of an era — and just how they were achieved. (Recipes included.)