Unfortunately, the possibilities for imaginative freedom are more limited in her current show, in part because of where it is mounted, and in part because of what has already been said about the Harlem Renaissance. Murrell’s biggest exhibition to date—it’s many times the size of “Posing Modernity”—the show occupies eleven rooms plus a “coda” gallery […]
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Alexei Ratmansky’s new ballet, “Solitude,” which recently premièred at New York City Ballet, begins with a devastating image: a father holding his dead son’s hand. The dance is dedicated to “the children of Ukraine, victims of war,” and Ratmansky has said that this image comes from a photograph of a father in Kharkiv sitting on
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This new mono-God is fiercely interventionist, and he seems to possess a plan that his dim-sighted human creations can barely make out. He banishes Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden because, in disobeying his orders not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, they become godlike. Of the
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Smoke and Ashes, by Amitav Ghosh (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). A hybrid of horticultural and economic history, this book proposes that the opium poppy should be taken as “a historical force in its own right.” Ghosh touches on opium’s origins as a recreational drug—it was favored in the courts of the Mongol, Ottoman, Safavid, and
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Busan Names Asian Contents & Film Market Director Busan’s Asian Contents and Film Market (ACFM) has named experienced programmer and indie arthouse producer Ellen Y.D. Kim has its new Director. She has been officially approved at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF)’s general assembly and will commence a four-year term this Friday (March 8). She
A new album from Ariana Grande and Garth Brooks taking viewers behind the scenes to the opening of his bar in Nashville are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: John
Oppenheimer, Maestro, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Society of the Snow were the big film winners at the Motion Picture Sound Editors‘ 71st Golden Reel Awards, which were handed out Sunday night at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. See the full list below. “What makes this event so special is that we come together from around the world
Chris Mortensen, the award-winning journalist who covered the NFL for close to four decades, including 32 as a senior analyst at ESPN, died Sunday morning. He was 72. ESPN confirmed Mortensen’s death on Sunday. There was no immediate word on the cause or place of death. “Mort was widely respected as an industry pioneer and
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Pitbull is celebrating Dolly Parton after collaborating with the country star on “Powerful Women,” which Mr. Worldwide dropped in February. The new song pays homage to working women and features a sample of Parton’s “9 to 5.” During a stop at The Trilogy Tour in Nashville, which features Pitbull, Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias, the
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“Blue Bloods” is saying goodbye to two special men: Treat Williams and his character, Lenny Ross. The former partner of New York Police Commissioner Francis “Frank” Reagan, played by Tom Selleck, last appeared in Season 13, when it was revealed that Lenny had been diagnosed with cancer. The latest episode of the CBS drama served
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