Arts
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Three Great Documentaries to Stream
This month’s selections include Jean-Luc Godard’s look at the Rolling Stones, an interview with a Holocaust survivor and a behind-the-scenes…
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Paula Abdul Accuses Nigel Lythgoe of Sexual Assault During ‘American Idol’
Ms. Abdul filed a lawsuit against Mr. Lythgoe, a producer of the reality show, that accuses him of assaulting her…
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A ‘Holopoem’ for the Cosmos
The artist Eduardo Kac was at his New York gallery the other day to show a reporter his work: a…
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Using the Wyeth Art She Reveres to Rebuild a Lost Maine Waterfront
An heiress to the L.L. Bean fortune who made the paintings of N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth part of her…
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Murder Most Unromantic in a New ‘Carmen’ at the Metropolitan Opera
A close observer might have noticed the flicker of menace that passed between the man and the woman: how his…
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‘The Three Musketeers’ and the Joy of Old-School Blockbusters
With its practical effects and broad-minded approach to story, the French franchise revives the pleasures of earlier movie spectacles, but…
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Botticelli, Beyond the Renaissance
Viewers gravitate to his astonishingly tender paintings, but at the Legion of Honor, his preparatory drawings offer a view of…
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Simpleton? Genius? Who was Tom Smothers?
He was close with John Lennon, and had a sophisticated understanding of wine, politics and literature. He only played the…
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How Cancer Has Influenced, but Not Controlled, a Musician’s Work
“The music stays as beautiful as it is,” said Andreas Staier, an eminent interpreter of early keyboard music who has…
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5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Surveys of works by Helvi Leiviska and Louis Wayne Ballard, as well as a restored version of “Cavalleria Rusticana,” are…