1,000 Singers Trying to Find B Flat
With 1,000 singers and 25 conductors taking part in David Lang’s “the public domain,” Simon Halsey, choral director, has his work cut out for him.
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CreditNetflix Review: ‘The Get Down’ Is ‘West Side Story’ With Rappers and Disco Queens
“The Get Down” takes the strivers, spitfires and gang bangers of that film and repurposes them in a tale of the origins of hip-hop.
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CreditColumbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Releasing ‘Sausage Party’ Is an Animated Sex Comedy About Food ... and God
In this free-spirited romp through the supermarket, potty-mouthed foodstuffs give voice to matters both humorous and spiritual.
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CreditClockwise: Universal Pictures; Hopper Stone/Columbia Pictures; Clay Enos/Warner Brothers and DC Comics; Kimberley French/Paramount Pictures, via Associated Press. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock
Many of summer’s tentpole movies (“Suicide Squad,” “Star Trek Beyond”) offer workplace allegories, with rivalries and power plays.
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CreditTony Cenicola/The New York Times Provincetown: Still the Place to Paint and to Party
This historic art colony at the tip of Cape Cod has cause for celebrating its centennial.
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CreditMuseo Nacional del Prado, Madrid Now Showing: Porn Fit for Spanish Kings
Paintings from the most private royal chambers are on view at the Clark Art Institute.
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CreditSantiago Mejia/The New York Times Revisiting Michael Richards’s Art in the Age of Black Lives Matter
In the exhibition “Michael Richards: Winged,” his work exploring themes of aviation, flight and escape comes across in a new light.
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CreditDrew Angerer/Getty Images Review: ‘Powerhouse’ Recalls a Heyday of Matched Jaguars and Packaged Films
This oral history by James Andrew Miller enlists many voices in describing the rise of Creative Artists Agency and its former chairman Michael Ovitz.
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CreditFocus Features 8 Gold-Worthy Olympics Movies
Cue the majestic music. With the Olympics in full swing in Rio, we look back at a handful of movies over the years that have captured the bright, dark and comic sides of the games.
