Arts
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Review: Ballet Theater Revisits Its Past With a Hit and Two Misses
Susan Jaffe presents her first New York season as American Ballet Theater’s leader, starting with a program of Alexei Ratmansky,…
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A Columbus Letter Beloved by Thieves and Forgers Hits the Market
A rare pamphlet about Christopher Columbus’s first voyage is on sale at Christie’s, which said it had taken pains to…
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A ‘Matrix’-Inspired Spectacle, With Little to Challenge the Mind
A huge new performance space in Manchester, England, opened with a show that trumpets the building’s possibilities, but doesn’t push…
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‘I Had Been Exploited:’ Takeaways From Britney Spears’s Memoir
The pop star’s new book, “The Woman in Me,” recounts her rise to fame, struggles that became tabloid fodder and…
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Review: An Unsettling Masterpiece
Martin Scorsese’s three-and-a-half-hour epic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is a romance, a western, a whodunit and a lesson in the bloody…
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‘Golden Bachelor’ Brings Something New to the Mansion: Grief
When “The Bachelor” squeezes widows and widowers through its melodrama machine, the franchise finally finds true heartbreak.
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The Passion of Adèle Haenel, an Artist of Fierce Political Conviction
Haenel, working with the choreographer-director Gisèle Vienne in “L’Étang,” is trying to “pierce through the surface of things.”
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Ann Philbin, Who Remade L.A.’s Hammer Museum, to Step Down
In nearly 25 years at the helm, Philbin helped transform the museum and elevate its reputation, and left a mark…
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‘Helen.’ Review: A Restless Heroine Tired of Abiding by Gender Roles
At La MaMa, Caitlin George’s new play uses comedy to counter the legend of Helen of Troy.
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Women of ‘Groundswell’: Thinking Outside the Spiral
Revisiting the land artists at the Nasher Sculpture Center, a critic finds their work was never more relevant than it…