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When Richard Serra’s Steel Curves Became a Memorial
The sculptor had a breakthrough in the late 1990s with his torqued metal rings. Then the attack on the World Trade Center, which Serra witnessed, gave them a sudden new significance.
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The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Rage and Grief
Käthe Kollwitz’s fierce belief in social justice and her indelible images made her one of Germany’s best printmakers. A dazzling MoMA show reminds us why.
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At Tiffany’s Flagship, Luxe Art Helps Sell the Jewels
Turrell. Hirst. Basquiat: This 10-story palace is filled with famous names, for a heady fusion of relevant, and discomfiting, contemporary art and retailing.
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Gagosian and Basquiat: The Early Years of Two Rising Stars in Los Angeles
A new exhibition tells the dealer’s story of how two rising stars, Larry Gagosian and Jean-Michel Basquiat, worked together in Los Angeles in the ’80s.
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Crisis-Hit British Museum Gets New Leader
Nicholas Cullinan will take over the London institution as it faces the fallout from a theft scandal and calls for the return of objects in its collection.
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You Know Him From N.B.A. Games. You Know His House From ‘Selling Sunset.’
For half a century, James Goldstein has been renovating a house by John Lautner. It’s a spectacular legacy. But like everything about Goldstein, it’s complicated.
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Home Entertainment Guide: March 2024
10 NEW TO NETFLIX “The Accountant““Alone““The Autopsy of Jane Doe““Bodies Bodies Bodies““Four Daughters““Godzilla”“Pineapple Express““Step Brothers““To Kill a Tiger”“Wanderlust” 15 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “The Abyss” James Cameron‘s 1989 blockbuster has been one of the hardest films to find on physical media or streaming for over a generation now. Its long-delayed arrival on 4K technically happened at…
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The Ebert Fellows Go to True/False
Editor’s note: Earlier this month, the 2023-24 University of Illinois College of Media Roger Ebert Fellows attended the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, MO. It’s an ideal first festival for any moviegoer, its documentary focus allowing for a wide range of stylistic and thematic encounters and venues of all sizes. Here are their reports. HANNA…
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Keith Law Wants You to Watch Better Baseball Movies
For some of us, Opening Day in Major League Baseball is a sacred thing—the unofficial start of spring, the launch of another season of the world’s greatest sport, that special time each year when we still believe that our crummy team might actually win the pennant. Sure, those are romantic notions, but most people who…
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Every one of the recent English language kaiju epics from Legendary Pictures has walked a different path, and “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” continues the tradition. This one is a direct sequel to 2021’s “Godzilla vs. Kong,” a simple movie inspired by the 1962 Toho Studios film “King Kong vs. Godzilla” that pitted the big…