Arts
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Done With Bond, Daniel Craig Will Play Macbeth on Broadway
Daniel Craig is veering from James Bond to Shakespeare. The 53-year-old actor, who has said that his tenure as Bond will come to an end with the ...
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A Specialist in Short and Lethal Movie Thrillers Jumps to TV
Mehdi, the cool, collected thief at the heart of the French Netflix series “Ganglands,” is haunted by his brother’s death. Guilt drives Mehdi’s ...
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They’re White, Male and on Their Pedestals, for the Time Being
After a year when challenges to Confederate statues and calls for racial justice reached a new peak, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation released a ...
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Britney Spears Conservatorship Hearing: What’s at Stake Now?
Some changes have come quickly in the three months since Britney Spears spoke up publicly for the first time about the conservatorship that has ...
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Ego Nwodim Used to Be Obsessed With Jay-Z. Now She Is Again
The new season of “Saturday Night Live” was less than a month away. But Ego Nwodim’s brain was telling her she had plenty of time do more. An ...
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After R. Kelly’s Conviction, Can the Music Industry Change?
When a federal jury in Brooklyn on Monday convicted R. Kelly on racketeering and sex trafficking charges, it was immediately seen as a watershed ...
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Jim Jarmusch’s Collages Are Ready for Their Close-Up
Jim Jarmusch likes removing the heads. He likes to swap the heads of world leaders with Picassos or Basquiats, or simply excise them entirely ...
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‘I Feel an Abundance’: A Composer Dips Into the Dance World
“Arrghh, the pressure!” exclaimed the composer Lido Pimienta, after being told that she and the choreographer Andrea Miller were the first all ...
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MacArthur Foundation Announces 2021 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners
The historian and social critic Ibram X. Kendi is used to getting hate mail. And sometimes the disdain for him and his work takes the form of a ...
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How Lip-Syncing Got Real
For several weeks, Netflix has been insisting that I watch its gender-swapped remake of the ’90s teen romantic comedy “She’s All That.” This ...