Art

The movie in which the two best friends in the middle of sharp-witted comedy Emergency would want to appear is simple: a riotous college romp. After all, they are the perfect odd couple for it: Sean (RJ Cyler) a hardcore…
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Art came into Lonnie Holley’s life, improbably and unannounced, when he was 29 years old, following a family tragedy. He made two tombstones for a nephew and niece who died in a house fire in his home city of Birmingham, Alabama. In the…
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Has any great novelist inspired as many mediocre films as Philip Roth? That includes you, American Pastoral. Please return my one hour and 46 minutes, The Human Stain. The unlucky run continues with Deception, a misjudged take on…
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Frost remembers that day, too, mostly because it was shaping up badly. The day before, he had cut short a practice session with Thompson, citing an allergic reaction to dust in the studio; he took a Benadryl, a Zyrtec and a shower, and fell…
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HAMBURG, Germany — During the five and a half hours I spent immersed in “Die Ruhe” (“The Calm”), a performative installation that was one of the 10 productions selected for this year’s Theatertreffen, I put a live worm in my mouth, cut off…
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Near the end of a sold-out show earlier this month, celebrating the release of his visionary second album, “Grief,” the vocalist, pianist, composer and activist Samora Pinderhughes asked the audience to sing with him. He…
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A rager, as the defense suggests, with some uncontrolled “monster” (as the text messages submitted as evidence termed it) within? As if.In the other corner: Ms. Heard, similarly suited in classic, muted tones of gray and navy. She wears…
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Has the auction market hit its peak? The running total of the New York evening sales of fine art — and a dinosaur skeleton — was $1.9bn at the time of writing, within estimates and potentially with another half a billion dollars to…
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Plots appear twice on Apple TV Plus: first as farce then as a tragedy-laden thriller. Four months ago the streaming service launched The Afterparty: an ensemble murder-mystery parody that centred on a group who find themselves…
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“There is a greater court now at Marble Hill than at Kensington,” the poet Alexander Pope wrote in 1735. Now, the historic Georgian villa in west London belonging to Henrietta Howard, the Countess of Sussex, is to reopen following decades…
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