Arts
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Kumail Nanjiani Didn’t Know He Was Playing the Bad Guy
Kumail Nanjiani had read the scripts. He had shot the scenes. But when he saw the rough cuts of the final episodes of “Welcome to Chippendales ...
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Review: On Broadway, ‘& Juliet’ (& Britney & Katy & Pink)
They don’t even bother to hide the jukebox. It’s right there, out in the open, before the show starts: a chrome Cyclops glowering at you from the ...
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Ticketmaster Cancels Sale of Taylor Swift Tickets After Snags
Ticketmaster has canceled its planned public sale of tickets to Taylor Swift’s latest tour after a whirlwind few days that demonstrated not only ...
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Thierry Mugler: Nothing Is Ever Too Extreme
Manfred Thierry Mugler, the boundary-pushing French couturier whose glamazons and fembots helped define fashion in the 1980s and ’90s and who ...
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A Rising Conductor Who’s ‘Not Just a Pair of Hands’
BOSTON — A sobering thought: The founders of the period-instrument movement, who from the 1960s or so wielded their new performance practices and ...
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Jacob’s Pillow Theater, Destroyed in Fire, to Be Rebuilt
Two years ago, a devastating fire destroyed the Doris Duke Theater, a hub of creativity and experimentation on the campus of Jacob’s Pillow, a ...
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‘The Crown’: The Story of Mohamed Al-Fayed and His Valet
LONDON — It’s 1946 in a dusty square in Alexandria, Egypt. Teenagers play a boisterous football match, and one of the players looks on curiously ...
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Weyes Blood Gives Beautiful Voice to Global Pain
Do flower children still inhabit a dying planet? If temperatures keep rising, will there be anything left of the garden? On an increasingly ...
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Meret Oppenheim: Enough With That Tempest in a Teacup
One of the great things about “Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition” at the Museum of Modern Art is that “Object,” the little 1936 sculpture whose ...
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Bringing World-Class Art, and Wonder, to Mental Health Patients
LONDON — The artist Sutapa Biswas has works in the Tate collection and was the subject of two major retrospectives last year. But, she said ...