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From a trio of campaign-trail veterans comes a docuseries that follows the 2016 election.
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Forest Whitaker makes his Broadway debut as the lead in Eugene O’Neill’s challenging two-man play about a small-time gambler.
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Paul Theroux’s ‘The Mosquito Coast’ follows a character’s ill-fated attempt to build a microcosm of a better civilization.
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The Duplass brothers’ comedy of everyday woes returns for a second season on HBO.
To cause a distraction during a heist, thugs plan to murder a cop.
This fictionalized biopic tells the story of Michael Edwards, the British plasterer-turned-ski-jumper who won hearts with his losing performance at the 1988 Olympics.
A mermaid and a wealthy developer fall in love in this Chinese slapstick romantic fantasy with an ecological message.
Tracing Picasso’s stylistic shifts, with war as a backdrop.
Teaching audiences to behave properly is a process, and getting rid of bad cellular manners is a good place to start.
With the rise of the Internet, those who wowed awards parties with bits of knowledge can feel a little bitter.
BalletBoyz offer a hybrid form that blends ballet and modern dance in ‘The Murmuring’ and ‘Mesmerics.’
In postwar Italy, a design sensibility distinct from Paris emerged.
The story of jazz vocalists, told through images and artifacts.
This year’s lineup of Best Score hopefuls proves once again that the Academy’s rules for the award aren’t necessarily clear.
On ‘Work Songs,’ Jaimeo Brown Transcendence draws from Alan Lomax’s invaluable 1930s recordings of field workers in the South.
Ann Veronica Janssens proves to be a master of light in her first American solo show.
Jean Cocteau’s film is a profound exploration of the human and animal worlds, light and darkness, and love and art.
An exhibition brings together three takes on a personal space.
Billie Lindahl, who records as Promise & the Monster, just released her third album, ‘Feed the Fire.’
At the 66th Berlin International Film Festival ‘Germany 1966—Redefining Cinema’ looks at the country’s postwar cinematic flowering.
Marcel Broodthaers struggled to decide what sort of artist he was—or if he was more of a curator of ideas.
Puccini’s tale of obsession gets moved to occupied France.
The country star returns with her first album in seven years.
Indigenous art can be difficult to read, but that shouldn’t hamper our appreciation.
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Two new albums will have listeners hoping for the return of the big band.
Pianist Frederic Chiu adds his voice to the legacy of Russian-Armenian mystic George Gurdjieff with a new album.
A favorite among French elites, Vigée Le Brun fled during the Revolution—but that didn’t hurt her business.
Justin Peck’s new dance is based on a Hans Christian Andersen tale about a kingdom-wide contest.
Critics were banned from a revival, but was this a free-speech issue or something far less troubling?
A revolutionary movement celebrates its centenary.
Paola Prestini makes music that is at once both stealthily conservative and subtly ambitious.
The new documentary ‘Carvalho’s Journey’ tells the story of a photographer whose life was filled with firsts.
Dr. Lonnie Smith returns to the Blue Note label with an album that reveals the enduring appeal of organ soul.
A much needed renovation of the Milwaukee Art Museum has secured the institution’s art while creating a better experience for visitors.
The Kronos Quartet continues looking forward.
A look at some of the lesser-known nominees at this year’s award show.
Artists respond to Iran’s shifting political and cultural landscape.
James Panero, executive editor of the New Criterion, visits every gallery in the main building of the Metropolitan Museum of Art—a Grand Tour in a single day.
GoGo Penguin defies genre, pulling together influences from trip-hop, classical, jazz and more.
The world-premiere of the late Robert Ashley’s opera-novel tells a loopy spy story.
His résumé includes B movies and shining examples of the Japanese New Wave.
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Cellist Charlotte Moorman’s work divided opinion, but one thing’s for certain: She was deeply serious about her artistic projects.
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A filmmaker and theorist whose talent was as evident on the screen as it was on the page.
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A musician with a long history teams up with a new band to create a new sound.
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A fashion exhibition inspired by classic tales of enchantment and transformation.
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How Leonard Bernstein brought classical music to prime-time TV.
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Dutch maestro Jaap van Zweden will be the next music director of the New York Philharmonic.
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A staging of the beloved children’s book at the New Victory Theater.
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An ebullient treasure of 1880s interior design from a little-known craftsman.
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Experiments that aim to bring out the songs’ emotional subtext.
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A set of six works that serve as modern responses to the popular Brandenburg concertos.
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A donor bequeathed 670 pieces to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, transforming its collection.
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New York City Opera’s historically accurate performance of ‘Tosca’ yearns for a time that is gone forever.
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An exhibition highlights works by Frederic Remington that reveal the range of his techniques and that are being shown together for the first time.
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Did Vagrich Bakhchanyan’s biting political commentary lose its edge once he left the Soviet Union?
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On ‘Desert Sorrows,’ a concerto commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from Mohammed Fairouz.
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Eighth Blackbird features works that were inspired by visual art.
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Wray finds power through repetition and tension on their second album, ‘Hypatia.’
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In ‘Egypt: Faith After the Pharaohs,’ objects that offer styles drawn from myriad cultures reveal a different sort of Egyptian art.
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A song cycle that limits its vocabulary to the 481 words Shakespeare gave to Ophelia.
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The wrong priorities of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s $3 billion plan to overhaul Penn Station.
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The Getty Center focuses on Japanese women photographers.
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On the glut of overlong biographies.
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Minimalist artist Fred Sandback made compelling sculpture with only yarn.
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Alan Rickman’s voice made him instantly recognizable; his iconic roles and acting prowess made him memorable.
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For today’s artists, computer skills are now more needed than camera know-how.
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‘The Bell’ is the latest offering from drummer Ches Smith, whose diverse musical credentials range from indie rock bands to Haitian percussion groups.
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After a very busy 2015, the West Coast musician starts off the new year with an album that folds hip-hop into R&B; and funk.
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The second year of this gathering offered new music lovers the opportunity to learn, network and listen.
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Singular drawings, prints and monotypes from a famously irascible artist.
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Big Dance Theater celebrates its 25th anniversary with a series of shorter works and a carnival-like birthday party intermission.
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A long overlooked form in the Surrealist movement gets the attention it deserves.
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Few careers have been as artistically diverse as David Bowie’s was.
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‘Dog Days,’ ‘Angel’s Bone’ and ‘The Last Hotel’ combine to offer a bleak world view in this festival of new indie chamber opera.
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Despite his celebration of the power and beauty of nature, Sotatsu had sunk into near oblivion.
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The silent-movie idol’s short-lived career in talkies has us pondering what might have been.
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Pierre Boulez, who died Tuesday at age 90, possessed a singular vision of the role and responsibility of the modern musician.
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How crowded should or can cities get? What should be driving tower design?
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On ‘Blackstar,’ David Bowie conspires with modern jazz artists.
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An exhibition examine’s Britain’s colonial past.
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At the Metropolitan Opera, two friends fall in love with a Hindu temple priestess and agree that neither will pursue her.
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An exhibition features photographers whose goal is to complicate what we are used to believing about what we see.
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At the Walters Art Museum, an exhibition takes a look at three men whose legacies in art history still endure.
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The story about a family’s Thanksgiving dinner gone wrong transfers to Broadway.
A group of smug progressives tries to deal with their own prejudices.
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Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 came to be known as the ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ because of the vast numbers required to perform it.
A Colombian rain-forest shaman encounters two white visitors 40 years apart
A biopic focuses on the high points of the life of Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
When a family moves to a remote area of New England in the 1600s, a father’s obsession with holiness brings a darkness into the household.
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Watching suspect officers of the law run for their lives is exciting on BBC America’s ‘Prey,’ especially when the police quarry seems innocent.
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Comedy is just the beginning of FX’s weird and wonderful ‘Baskets,’ about a mean and selfish pagliacci transformed by the affection of others.
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This year’ s best buildings proved that architecture doesn’t have to be loud to be important.
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Politics, Paris and puppets were just a few of the rewarding varied offerings that audiences received this year.
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With the music industry’s massive output, listeners can’t be blamed if it was hard to choose their favorite albums this year.
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Audiences found emotional experiences at the cinema in a multitude of scales, ranging from the intergalactic to the intimate.
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From jihadists in Berlin to a harrowing crime in India, programming confronted today’s harsh realities
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The year’s best exhibitions introduced visitors to Mughals, migration and Renaissance masterpieces
Sculptor Charles Ray discusses the communion between creator and viewer in Picasso’s ‘Woman With Leaves.’
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Located near a remote New Mexico town, Walter De Maria’s ‘The Lightning Field’ harnesses solitude and the power of nature.
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In his condolence letter to Fanny McCullough, Abraham Lincoln drew on his own experience of loss to comfort another.
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A recently attributed drawing casts new light on Jan van Eyck’s ‘The Crucifixion’ and ‘The Last Judgment.’
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As a work of Pop art, Robert Indiana’s ‘Year of Meteors’ has unusual depth of meaning.
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Hiram Powers’s ‘The Greek Slave’ helped shape American arts, politics and taste.
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In his ‘Discourses of Epictetus,’ the Stoic’s principal lesson is how best to meet the requirements of life.
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Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Throne of Blood’ is the finest film rendering of any of Shakespeare’s plays.
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Rogier van der Weyden’s ‘The Crucifixion, With the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist Mourning’ uses an unusual format to tell a well-known story.
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In John Keats’s ‘On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer,’ a literary epiphany from a translation of Homer’s ‘Iliad.’
Derek Zoolander, Hansel and Mugatu return in this cameo-dense sequel.
Michael Moore’s whimsical documentary searches overseas for solutions to America’s problems.
In Denmark’s entry for the Oscars, a soldier finds himself in the crosshairs, first on the battlefield and then in a courtroom.
The latest Coen brothers film is built on Hollywood lore and takes a jaundiced view of the film industry.
A group of ostracized priests living in a Chilean town are up to no good.
“Rams” is a picturesque tale of Icelandic shepherds dealing with different kinds of loss.
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The U.S. Coast Guard braves a tempest to try to rescue a group of seamen from a ship that’s split in two.
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Martial-arts and food loving panda Po returns to save the world—and meets his father along the way
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Male Infidelity and two women’s passion lie at the heart of this film from a group of French-cinema veterans
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Humans and monsters populate a Chinese-made hybrid of animation and live action.
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A self-destructive screenwriter heads east from Hollywood to the burning sands
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A flower from the future augurs well for the future of a time machine.
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Michael Bay’s film centers on a six-man security team that struggled to defend an American installation during the 2012 Benghazi attack.
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At the end of the Bosnian War, aid workers address problems that include a waterlogged corpse, a lost soccer ball and an old romance.
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Orson Welles stars as the tragicomic Sir John in this newly restored version of his 1965 film.
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Surrounded by a psychic landscape of surreal sameness, an author on a lecture tour meets a woman with a difference in this stop-action animation feature by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson.
A love of music (and other drugs) drives the hero of HBO’s new show.
James Franco stars as a teacher sent back in time to prevent a presidential assassination.
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The cast of Lifetime’s ‘Manson’s Lost Girls’ get a hottie makeover that obscures the full horror of the 1969 murders.
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This fictionalized portrayal of the king of Ponzi schemes makes the viewer, uncomfortably, root for the con man.
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James Garfield was an American hero when he was alive, but his life and assassination are now largely overlooked.
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Remembering an entertainment industry icon.
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Mulder and Scully return to take on familiar enemies.
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Despite Earth’s impending destruction, the characters in this show are preoccupied with much else.
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Deviance, greed and power grubbing abound in Showtime’s new series.
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This small-screen adaptation tries to spice up a cornerstone of Russian literature.
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A country vicar battles a plot against Christianity.
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A struggle for West Virginian miners’ right to unionize that exploded into violence.
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A blue-collar kid from New York lands a spot at a New Hampshire boarding school, but adjusting isn’t easy.
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Terrence McNally’s backstage farce is filled with humor that can be appreciated by everyone from seasoned theatergoers to dramaturgical neophytes.
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A classic gets updated in the best possible way.
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August Wilson’s 1984 history play looks at a real-life blues singer of the ’20s.
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The playwright’s only comedy is a sweet but not sugary coming-of-age tale that takes place on the Fourth of July.
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A mother has a couple surprises for her children in Richard Greenberg’s highly personal play.
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Michael Frayn’s first-rate farce about a farce follows a second-rate troupe staging a third-rate British sex comedy.
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A youngish playwright comes home with a surprise for his priggish parents: His new play is all about them.
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Cy Walter was one of the finest popular pianists of the 20th century, a reputation his son is working hard to revive decades after the musician’s death.
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The best theater memoir ever written explains how Emlyn Williams went from sailor’s son to stage star.
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