Arts
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Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs
From Television through his solo career, the songwriter created enigmatic tidings and cat’s-cradle guitar structures. He died on Saturday at…
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Easy Does It: Bringing Old-School Wisdom to City Ballet
Kyra Nichols, a former principal, returns to the company for the first time since her 2007 retirement to coach ballets…
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Jewish Heirs Sue Guggenheim Over Ownership of a Prized Picasso
The museum says the painting’s owner, who sold it after fleeing Nazi Germany, made a “fair transaction.” His heirs say…
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‘S.N.L.’ Spoofs Merrick Garland’s Hunt for Classified Documents
Michael B. Jordan hosted an episode that was saved by a couple of commercial parodies.
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the U.N. Hears of a Little-Known Killing Field
At the United Nations’ annual ceremony to mark the Nazi horrors, Karen Frostig described her work to commemorate a concentration…
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At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers
Dramas about couples (“Cat Person”) and families (“A Thousand and One”) tackle complex lives; documentaries on Judy Blume and Nikki…
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Review: Justin Peck Runs Out of Steam in ‘Copland Dance Episodes’
New York City Ballet’s resident choreographer expands on “Rodeo” to make an evening-length work set to some of Aaron Copland’s…
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Jay Leno Is Recovering From Surgery After a Motorcycle Accident
The former late-night host and comedian drove into a wire a few miles from his garage in Burbank, Calif., he…
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‘The Smuggler’ Review: A Barman’s Rambling Yarn
The one-man show means to draw the audience into a moral quandary pitting immigrants and the American poor against each…
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‘Infinity Pool’ and the Battle for an R Rating
The story of how an extreme horror movie with an orgy scene fought off an NC-17 label involves a film-board…