Arts
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Review: The Philharmonic Welcomes Back an Old Friend
David Robertson returned to the podium to lead the orchestra’s first in a series of performances to celebrate the centennial of Gyorgy Ligeti’s birth.
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Britney Spears, From the Conservatorship’s Demise to ‘The Woman in Me’
Before the pop star releases her memoir next week, here’s a look back at her life since the guardianship controlling her affairs was terminated in 2021.
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Movement and Memory: Dance Love and Dance Rejection in Ireland
Michael Keegan-Dolan has collaborated with his partner Rachel Poirier on “How to Be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons,” coming to St. Ann’s Warehouse.
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A Filmmaker’s Fraught Specialty: Women at Work and the Men Who Scare Them
Kitty Green’s movies, “The Assistant” and now “The Royal Hotel,” address gender dynamics in familiar, but menacing, environments.
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Cleveland Museum Sues to Block Seizure of Its ‘Marcus Aurelius’ Bronze
The lawsuit seeks to prevent the Manhattan district attorney’s office from taking the headless statue, which investigators say was looted from Turkey and depicts the Roman emperor.
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After Nearly Five Decades, Waltraud Meier Takes Her Final Opera Bow
The famed singer, known for her captivating presence, intellectual approach and distinctive sound, is retiring from the stage with “Elektra.”
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In Jesmyn Ward’s New Novel, Slavery Is Hell and Dante Is Our Guide
LET US DESCEND, by Jesmyn Ward After Annis, the enslaved teenage girl at the center of Jesmyn Ward’s new novel, “Let Us Descend,” finishes her morning tasks — laundry and dusting in her plantation’s manor home — she lingers outside a doorway. Inside ...
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A Cannes Winner Asks: What if the Powerful Woman Isn’t Punished?
The French director Justine Triet’s movies explore the anxieties of women who work and play hard. Her latest, “Anatomy of a Fall,” won the Palme d’Or.
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What to Know About ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: A Guide to the Osage Murders
Martin Scorsese’s epic traces a real plot by white men to kill dozens of Native Americans who held oil rights in 1920s Oklahoma. Here is the back story.
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An Indian Artist Questions Borders and the Limits on Free Speech
In hauntingly spare artworks, Shilpa Gupta grapples with questions of censorship, born from her own experiences with authoritarian limits.