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The Powerful Films of the L.A. Rebellion
In the nineteen-seventies, U.C.L.A.’s Ethno-Communications program, founded to increase minority enrollment, attracted a critical mass of…
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The “Lady Preacher” Who Became World-Famous—and Then Vanished
Aimee Semple McPherson was barefoot when she left Room 202 at the Ocean View Hotel. Wearing only a bathing suit, a dressing gown, and a…
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The Pop Heartthrob Nick Jonas on Broadway
Our theatrical spring continues to be a bright one, with a bounty of audacious, boundary-breaking work emerging Off Broadway in the coming…
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Will Donald Go Down with the Ship?
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The Frick Returns, Richer Than Ever
The Frick Collection, on East Seventieth Street, is, by so many miles, the finest small city museum—less self-consciously eccentric than…
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The Evolution of Dance Theatre of Harlem
From the start, Dance Theatre of Harlem’s history has been a cycle of struggle and triumph. The dancer Arthur Mitchell founded it in 1969,…
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Joan Didion’s Notes on Therapy
Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne met in the late fifties, when she was working at Vogue and he at Time. They married in 1964, and in…
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Richard Brody’s New Directors/New Films Picks
Beguiling blends of fiction and nonfiction are the highlights of this year’s edition of the New Directors/New Films series, at Film at…
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Sunday in the Amusement Park with Elon
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The Deaths—and Lives—of Two Sons
The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died.…
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What to Watch That Isn’t “The White Lotus”
The musician Tamara Lindeman founded the Canadian folk band the Weather Station in 2006, but it could be argued that she didn’t truly find…
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Amy Sherald’s “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)”
The artist Amy Sherald is known for her stirring portraits of First Lady Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, and often uses grayscale to…
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The British Hits Are Coming
Also: Cate Blanchett in “Black Bag”; Felix Mendelssohn’s overlooked sister, at the Morgan Library; uncovered songs by “Rent” ’s Jonathan…
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“Moby-Dick” Sets Sail at the Met Opera
Jane Bua Bua writes about classical music for Goings On. Among the most notable opening lines in literature is undoubtedly that of Herman…
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Faith Ringgold’s Message of Hope
Hilton Als Staff writer In 1971, the painter, quilter, and children’s-book author Faith Ringgold went to prison. She was not incarcerated;…
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The Profile Hemingway Could Never Live Down
Throughout the profile, Hemingway, drinking hard, employs a kind of skin-tightening lingo that he called “Indian Talk.” It wouldn’t have…
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The Eternal Mysteries of Red
The first time he tried to kill red, he brought a box cutter. The wounds were almost fifty feet long combined—clearly, he didn’t want to…
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The Uneven Cross-Cultural Comedy of “Paddington in Peru” and “Universal Language”
Not every filmmaker is a cinephile, but, among those who are, that passion can manifest itself in unexpected ways. The driving pleasure of…
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Goings On Turns a Hundred
Shauna Lyon Editor, Goings On In anticipation of the hundredth anniversary of The New Yorker, I’ve been looking back at old issues,…
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The Aesthetic Empire of Alma Mahler-Werfel
The first challenge is deciding what to call her. She is encircled by famous surnames—men jousting over her identity. A lustrous scion of…
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Heil or No Heil?
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