Arts
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Review: Bill T. Jones’s Oceanic Vision
As audience members filed into the Park Avenue Armory on Tuesday night, Bill T. Jones was already there, a lone figure on a vast dance floor ...
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Illuminati Hotties’ Wonderfully Warped Punk-Pop
LOS ANGELES — The night before Sarah Tudzin filmed the music video for the first single from her band Illuminati Hotties’ new album, the director ...
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A Historic Night as the Metropolitan Opera Tries to Ensure Its Future
After eight minutes of applause, the curtain had dropped for a final time, and many members of the cast of “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” the first ...
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Review: Tracy Letts Brings Out the Long Knives in Short Plays
Tracy Letts, though always funny, has never been jolly. You wouldn’t, after all, expect bonhomie from a writer whose earliest plays were called ...
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Met Museum to Return Ancient Sculpture to Nepal
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Wednesday that it will return a religious sculpture from the 10th century to Nepal after researchers ...
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Review: After a Met Opera Milestone, ‘Boris’ Brings Another
You may have heard about the widely publicized landmark with which the Metropolitan Opera opened its season on Monday: Terence Blanchard’s “Fire ...
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For Al Franken, a Comeback Attempt Goes Through Comedy Clubs
It was a fairly typical night at the Comedy Cellar’s Village Underground with a procession of young comics telling jokes about bickering couples ...
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‘No Time to Die’ Review: His Word Is His Bond
“No Time to Die.” It’s kind of an ambiguous title. No time because we’re too busy or because now is not the right moment? The makers of the ...
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Elvis vs. Lenin: A Superpower Confrontation on Canvas
BERLIN — For nearly 30 years, from the 1960s to the early 1990s, the grand front entrance of the Gropius Bau museum faced the concrete and barbed ...
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Onstage, ‘Designing Women’ Sheds the Shoulder Pads, Not Its Politics
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the Emmy-nominated writer and producer, started hearing voices earlier this year, voices she hadn ...