Arts
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Review: A Tale of Two Hawkeyes
Of all the fine actors who have accepted employment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jeremy Renner has been the most ill used. He has called his ...
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6 Podcasts About Unsolved Mysteries
Real-life mysteries are the bread-and-butter of modern podcasting. Seven years ago, “Serial” pushed the format into the mainstream with its ...
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Review: Channeling Anger in ‘A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing’
The girl is 5, doing somersaults in a skirt, her little-kid underwear showing as she tumbles. “It’s disgusting,” her scandalized grandfather ...
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Paul Thomas Anderson Goes Back to the Valley With ‘Licorice Pizza’
Maybe Paul Thomas Anderson brought the fog with him. The 51-year-old director had just returned from a trip to London, where his last film ...
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After 20 Years, Frank Stella Returns to Ground Zero
On a chilly Saturday morning last weekend, Frank Stella — 85, bespectacled, somewhat scruffy and holding a cane — was overseeing the installation ...
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Live Theater Is Back. But a New Broadway Play Will Stream, Too.
The coronavirus closures prompted many theaters around the country to experiment with online offerings. Now, even though theaters have reopened ...
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Macy’s Parade Is Back This Thanksgiving, but Kids Are Sidelined
As the coronavirus surged in New York City last year, the typical fanfare of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was downsized: The route shrank ...
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The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’
In 2015, the composer Matthew Aucoin emailed the playwright Sarah Ruhl to ask whether she would be interested in working with him on a new opera ...
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‘Succession’ Recap, Season 3, Episode 6: Pretenders to the Throne
Season 3, Episode 6: ‘What It Takes’ “Succession” is sometimes described as a political satire, but politics is more the show’s milieu than its ...
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‘Insecure’ Recap, Season 5, Episode 5: Out of Control
Season 5, Episode 5: ‘Surviving, Okay?!’ We all have a friend who is obsessed with control. They are the ones who ask who is invited to a party ...