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Flooding in Southern Brazil: Images of Rio Grande do Sul Underwater
Torrential rains have caused one of Brazil’s worst floods in modern history, leaving more than 100 dead and nearly an entire state submerged.
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In Serbia, Xi Underlines Close Ties With Ally That Shares Wariness of U.S.
Visiting friendly leaders in Eastern Europe, the Chinese president commemorated the 25th anniversary of a misdirected U.S. airstrike that destroyed China’s embassy in Belgrade.
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LaToya Ruby Frazier is Paying it Forward at MoMA
She may be America’s foremost social documentary photographer, now with a survey at the Museum of Modern Art. “All I’m doing is showing up as a vessel.”
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An Abandoned School Becomes a Canvas for Art Galleries
Six galleries bought a 22-acre property in upstate New York that they are calling the Campus. Its first exhibition begins June 29.
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Dear Tim Cook: Be a Decent Human Being and Delete this Revolting Apple Ad
During the Super Bowl broadcast of 1984, Apple debuted one of the most innovative and spectacular commercials ever made: Ridley Scott’s ad for the then-brand new MacIntosh home computer. It showed an auditorium full of lifeless human drones staring at a dictator-like figure ranting on a giant screen, followed by an athletic blonde woman (the only splash of…
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
When Rupert Wyatt’s 2011 revival “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” revived a five-decade-old franchise—one that spanned books, films, TV series, and comics since the ’60s—it did so with a refreshing commitment to a powerful, timeless story: simple but not simple-minded, deeply emotional but far from corny. Portrayed via groundbreaking performance capture technology by Andy…
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The Problem and the Solution: Why Palpatine from Star Wars is One of the Great Movie Villains
George Lucas gets a lot of flak for his screenwriting, but credit must be given when due: Sheev Palpatine, the humble senator from Naboo who becomes a galactic despot in the “Star Wars” movies, is one of the great screen villains. The narrative architecture of his rise is ingenious. It’s thorough, too: the first few bricks of his foundation are…
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The Last Stop in Yuma County
“Last Stop in Yuma County” is the kind of movie where you root for the worst to happen, because every escalation of misfortune makes things more entertaining. Written and directed by Francis Galluppi, “Yuma” is a period piece that makes the most of a small budget. It’s set in the Arizona desert, roughly fifty years…
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A Cicada’s Guide to Periodical Romance
It may sound like a mosh pit out there. But to the participants, mating is a delicate, sonorous affair, fraught with potential missteps — and fungal zombies.
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Afraid of Cicadas? This Entomologist Wants to Change That.
Sammy Ramsey casts the mass emergence of the big, red-eyed bugs as a love story, not an insect apocalypse.