Arts

Books Bound in Human Skin: An Ethical Quandary at the Library

Harvard’s recent decision to remove the binding of a notorious volume in its library has thrown fresh light on a…

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Roni Horn, a Restless Artist With 4 Shows and More Identities

The spring exhibitions display Horn’s work across many mediums — a reflection of how the artist, known for her serene…

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Ken Loach: Championing the Strugglers and Stragglers

A retrospective of the director’s work at Film Forum shows how his movies have kept a focus on working-class solidarity.

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4 Documentaries That Explore How Families Cope With Dementia

In “Little Empty Boxes” and other films, the heartbreak of memory loss is intertwined with deeper cultural implications.

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In Venice, a Conservative Painter Stages an Unpopular Rebellion

Poland’s right-wing government tapped the artist Ignacy Czwartos for the Venice Biennale before it was voted out of office. The…

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Why Electro’s Exacting Duo Justice Wanted to Break Its Own Rules

For “Hyperdrama,” Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay’s first album in eight years, the duo added genre experiments and guests…

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Music Catalog Giant Hipgnosis Agrees to $1.4 Billion Sale to Concord

Hipgnosis, which owns the rights to songs by Justin Bieber and Neil Young, helped kick-start a rush on catalog sales.…

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Jorie Graham’s Poetry of the Earth and Humanity, Set to Music

The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music…

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‘Gun & Powder’ Review: Twin Vigilantes Stake Claim to the American West

The musical traces the story of Black twin sisters who pass as white, and exact their own form of justice…

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‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: War, Undemanding

Guy Ritchie’s latest is the platonic ideal of an airplane movie, which is not exactly a good thing.

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