Arts
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Two Experimental Horror Directors Discuss the Thoughts Behind the Frights
Kyle Edward Ball, the filmmaker behind “Skinamarink,” and Robbie Banfitch, who made “The Outwaters,” talk about their creepy, buzzy movies.
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A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia
The Night Falls is a tourist trap in Florida, a beautiful grotto turned into a roadside attraction where three sisters sing in kitschy bird outfits. And then they drown and become actual birds, monstrous ones, whose seductive song, like that of the ...
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‘Endgame’ Review: A Laugh at the Apocalypse?
There’s plenty of pleasure to be found at the end of the world in the Irish Repertory Theater production of Samuel Beckett’s play.
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Storming Normandy in 1346
“Essex Dogs,” the first novel in a projected trilogy by the historian Dan Jones, imagines a hard-bitten band of mercenaries hired to invade France on behalf of their English king.
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The Fullest View of Vermeer Still Leaves Plenty to the Imagination
A blockbuster exhibition brings together more paintings by the Dutch master than ever before. Yet he remains a mystery, despite efforts by authors, filmmakers and researchers to fill the empty space.
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How the R&B Innovator Kelela Unlocked a New Level
In mid-January, Kelela Mizanekristos emailed over the document she shares with everyone who plans to work with her. It’s a syllabus for the university of her mind, a guide to help the 39-year-old R&B musician’s collaborators understand the ...
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In ‘Dear Edward,’ Connie Britton Embraces Her Inner ‘Real Housewife’
The series reunites the actor with Jason Katims, the “Friday Night Lights” showrunner. But the wealthy suburbanite she plays is “so not Tami Taylor,” she said.
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Claudia Cardinale: 6 Decades in the Movies
Ahead of a MoMA retrospective, the actress reflected on her career, which includes over 100 films and many classics of Italian cinema.
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Avedon at Large
“Richard Avedon: Murals” fills just one gallery of the Met, but “fills” is an understatement. These portraits of prominent political and social figures are a milestone in image-making.
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‘Godland’ Review: Another of God’s Lonely Men Goes Amok (Spiritually)
In this striking drama set in the late 19th century, a Danish priest travels to Iceland and is gradually undone by a world he can’t understand.