Pritzker Prize Goes to Arata Isozaki, Designer for a Postwar World
The architect synthesizes Western and Japanese influences without ceding to one style.
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CreditVSF What to Know About the Pritzker Prize, Called the Nobel of Architecture
As the 46th Pritzker Prize winner is announced, we explain why the award is considered architecture’s highest honor.
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CreditMarvel Studios/Disney ‘Captain Marvel’ Review: Brie Larson Takes a Trip to the ’90s
The newest member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe goes on a nostalgia trip in the company of Samuel L. Jackson and Annette Bening.
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‘Jean-Michel Basquiat’ at the Brant Shows His Bifurcated Life
A fitting shrine for Basquiat: A trophy art museum shows off a painter who felt he had been commodified.
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CreditDevin Yalkin for The New York Times Yo-Yo Ma and Wu Man: A Concerto Conjures a Chinese Golden Age
The superstar cellist and the world’s leading pipa player join the New York Philharmonic for the American premiere of Zhao Lin’s “A Happy Excursion.”
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CreditHenrik Montgomery/EPA, via Shutterstock Two Nobel Prizes in Literature to Be Awarded This Year After Scandal
The Swedish Academy will name laureates for 2018 and 2019 in October. Critics questioned whether it had fully addressed the crisis that forced it to postpone last year’s prize.
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CreditJulieta Cervantes for The New York Times To Nudity, Physical and Emotional, a Dance Duo Now Adds Words
Speaking is not their creative medium, but Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith realized that powerful movement “isn’t enough.”
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Critic’s Pick
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CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times Review: A Family Divide Haunts Heart-Rending ‘Suicide Forest’
Kristine Haruna Lee’s gorgeously complex play is made up of sharp vignettes that open up to explore Japanese-American identity.
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CreditCollection Société des Amis du Musée national d'Art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Richard Schmidt David Hockney Loves Van Gogh. This Exhibition Shows Why.
A show at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam brings together works by the contemporary British painter and the 19th century Post-Impressionist he so admired.
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An Appraisal
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CreditDiyah Pera/CW Luke Perry Was a ’90s Heartthrob With Charisma to Burn
From “Beverly Hills, 90210” to “Riverdale,” Perry made fans take notice.
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Critic’s Notebook
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CreditGranada ‘Leaving Neverland’ Deepens Shadow Over 2003 Michael Jackson Interview
The pop star’s interview with the British journalist Martin Bashir eerily echoes the stories of his “Leaving Neverland” accusers in surprising ways.
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CreditBennett Raglin/OWN In ‘After Neverland,’ Oprah Winfrey Processes Michael Jackson Allegations
The talk-show host sought to educate and commiserate with her audience during an interview with the Jackson accusers from “Leaving Neverland.”
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CreditDave Hogan/Getty Images Michael Jackson Cast a Spell. ‘Leaving Neverland’ Breaks It.
In a new documentary on HBO, two men accuse the star of sexually abusing them as children. Our critic wrestles with their stories, and his own fandom.
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CreditHBO ‘Leaving Neverland’ Part 2 Recap: ‘The Abuse Was a Bomb That Dropped in Our Lives’
The second half of the HBO documentary covers Jackson’s legal troubles, his accusers’ decisions to come forward and the impact on their families.
