Arts
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‘Una Vita Difficile’ Review: Life Comes at You Fast
Alberto Sordi stars as an idealistic Italian Everyman caught up in a changing postwar world in this rediscovered comedy from the ’60s.
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a Master of Mutability
An ultra-polished survey of the artist’s works at David Zwirner — some not seen before — demonstrate how preservation and change can coexist.
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Philomena Cunk Is Weird Enough to Take on the World
The new Netflix show “Cunk on Earth” looks like an ambitious BBC documentary. Until its fictional host, created by Charlie Brooker, starts to ask some deeply silly questions.
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Facing Death, a Pianist Recorded Music of Unspeakable Emotions
Lars Vogt, for one of his final albums made before dying from cancer, turned to chamber music by Schubert with Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff.
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Review: Dancing for Themselves in an Underworld of Shadows
Cullberg, a contemporary Swedish company, makes its Joyce Theater debut with Deborah Hay’s delicate, hypnotic “Horse, the Solos.”
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‘Knock at the Cabin’ Review: Who’s There? The Apocalypse.
In M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thought experiment, Dave Bautista brings the end of the world to a peaceful country cottage.
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It’s Beyoncé’s Time to Shine at the Grammys … Right?
With a dominant new album, “Renaissance,” and the chance to become the most awarded artist in Grammy history, all eyes are on the pop superstar ahead of Sunday’s show. What could go wrong?
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‘Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over’ Review: A Trailblazer Gets Her Flowers
This documentary tries to do justice to a six-decade career in 95 minutes, which proves challenging.
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For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks
When Charles Munch started work as the conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 1949, he gave a speech. There wasn’t much he could say, in truth. His English was poor, though he had just sacrificed an umlaut in his surname in ...
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A Modern Take on the Hudson River School Tradition
In his first show at Gagosian, opening Thursday, the painter Cy Gavin explores the land that has both empowered and inspired him.