Arts
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Is Little Amal Getting Lost in New York?
Parading down the middle of West 63rd Street last Saturday afternoon, we were following a giant puppet — a whole crowd of us, trekking along ...
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Five International Movies to Stream Now
‘A Distant Place’ Stream it on Tubi. In a remote village in South Korea, the farmhand Jin-woo (Kang Gil-woo) and his 6-year-old ward, Seol, live ...
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Birthday Messages to Celebrate Lives, Not Mourn Police Killings
If Oscar Grant III could celebrate his birthday, his mother, the Rev. Wanda Johnson, said, he’d welcome the entire neighborhood from his Hayward ...
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The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever.
KASSEL, Germany — It began with a calumny, it ends with a crack-up. Twice a decade, for exactly 100 days, the world of culture turns its eyes to ...
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Lynn Nottage’s ‘Clyde’s’ Is the Most-Staged Play in America
Theaters around America appear to be staging fewer shows than they were before the pandemic, but a lot of the work they are doing is by Lynn ...
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The Town That Charles Built
POUNDBURY, England — On Queen Mother Square in Poundbury, a quaint town in southern England, sits a huge neo-Classical apartment block, painted ...
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‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,’ Season 1, Episode 5: Misty Mountain Hop
Season 1, Episode 5: ‘Partings’ This week’s “The Rings of Power” is the grandest in scale so far, with every major race and most of the series’s ...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers Honor Eddie Van Halen, and 10 More New Songs
Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new songs and videos. Just want the music? Listen to the ...
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Lorne Michaels Discusses the ‘Year of Reinvention’ Coming to ‘S.N.L.’
Whether you think “Saturday Night Live” is on an upswing or in a downturn, change is coming to the long-running NBC sketch comedy show. Four of ...
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Lena Dunham Channels a Voice of a (Different) Generation
Lena Dunham considers herself a historian of her own generation. As the creator of the HBO series “Girls,” she became a defining millennial voice ...