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New York City Ballet Premières for the “No Kings” Era
But there is a problem: Beethoven begins to disappear. In the energy and flow of the dancing, the “Eroica” starts to sound like an…
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Two New Documentaries Are Haunted by Unsettling Natural Wonders
In “Pompei: Below the Clouds,” Rosi is as quietly watchful as ever, though he is either remarkably skilled or remarkably fortunate in…
Culture
Spring Culture Previews—What to Do, See, and Hear This Season
Calamitous Romance, Political Satire Fashion is drama in some of the most prominent new releases, as in “Marc by Sofia” (March 20), a…
Culture
“Hate Radio” Chucks the Transcript
A jolting play about the Rwandan genocide takes liberties in order to capture dark truths. Source link
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What Walter Benjamin Knew
A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience. Source link
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The Quad God and American Reckoning at the Olympics
Of course, it wasn’t just Malinin whose performance tugged my attention away from Italy and toward America. A handful of athletes from the…
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Mitski’s Spellbinding Intensity
Also: the actions and art work of Lotty Rosenfeld, mixed-martial-arts sparring in the play “The Monsters,” a cocktail adventure at…
Lifestyle
EXCLUSIVE: Elle Magazine Launches Pan-African Edition
PARIS — Elle magazine’s footprint is growing, with a continent-sized leap on Saturday. The glossy publication is launching its largest…
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Whodunnit: The Upstate Murder-Mystery Weekend
Cupid gets his main-character moment this weekend. We asked New Yorker staffers to help build a playlist befitting his romantic mission.…
Culture
Pierre Huyghe’s A.I. Art Monster Takes Over a Night Club in Berlin
In the far corner of the Halle, there’s a dim glow. Your job, you realize, is to grope your way toward that light, which reveals itself to…
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In an Age of Science, Tennyson Grappled with an Unsettling New World
While the earth thus trembled, different and equally disruptive discoveries were happening in the sky. Thanks in part to improvements in…
Business
“Industry” Is a Study in Wasted Youths
In the new season of the hit HBO series, its young protagonists have left the trading floor that made them. Their second acts are…
Culture
Why We Can’t Stop Reading—and Writing—Food Diaries
Spending a day in someone’s kitchen can tell us about their relationship to time, money, pleasure, and place. Source link
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The Race to Give Every Child a Toy
Actually, they did want to be. There is a reason Morris Michtom moved his family from the Lower East Side to the row houses of Brooklyn as…
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“My Father’s Shadow” Is Intensely—Yet Obliquely—Autobiographical
Most of the movie takes place in the span of a single day, and two clocks, political and personal, seem to be ticking out of synch,…
Culture
The Dance Reflections Festival Is a Gift
In what feels like a vestige from a more collaborative era, the Cuban contemporary-dance troupe Malpaso Dance Company is the product of a…
Culture
The Perennial Predicament of the Artist with an Office Job
In “The Copywriter,” by Daniel Poppick, a poet searches for meaning in the grindset. Source link
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Marx, Palestine, and the Birth of Modern Terrorism
That a handful of revolutionaries could collect airliners worth millions of dollars and hold Western passengers ransom made it appear the…
Culture
How the Murdoch Family Built an Empire—and Remade the News
St. Bride’s, situated in an alley just off Fleet Street, is known as the journalists’ church. Having weathered not a few disasters—the…
Culture
“An Ark” Imagines the Afterlife; “Data” Imagines a Corporate Hell
There will be future applications of “mixed reality,” I’m sure, and I hope they work with funkier material. Personally, I’d rather get…
Culture
In “Pillion,” Gay B.D.S.M. Passions Edge Toward Dom-Com
Anchored by Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling’s superb performances, the British director Harry Lighton’s feature début brightens the…
Culture
A Century of Life in the City, at the Movies
The Australian singer-songwriter Hatchie has steadily built a little dream-pop world suspended between the synth music of Kylie Minogue…
Culture
“Infinite Jest” Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?
In 2023, the writer Patricia Lockwood chafed at Wallace’s supposed sainthood in a long piece for the London Review of Books. The essay, in…
Culture
Morton Feldman’s Music of Stillness
“I really don’t feel that it’s all necessary anymore,” Morton Feldman told an interviewer in 1972. “And so what I try to bring into my…