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Israel Sending More Troops to Rafah Amid Warnings of Famine in Gaza
Fighting in Rafah has closed off a vital border crossing in southern Gaza, forced hundreds of thousands to flee and cut off humanitarian aid.
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How Extremist Settlers Took Over Israel
After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law.
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Jenny Holzer Shines New Light in Dark Places
Her signboards predated by a decade the news “crawl.” At the Guggenheim she is still bending the curve: Just read the art, is the message.
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Mary Cassatt’s Women Didn’t Sit Pretty
The American painter depicted women caring for children, not posing for the male gaze. New exhibitions and books reappraise her legacy 100 years later.
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Yves Klein’s Leap Into the Blue (With Living Paintbrushes)
A gallery shows works with roots in performance art, and a film that documents their creation.
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The Artist Amalia Mesa-Bains Builds Her Own Legacy
A powerful and overdue exhibition at El Museo del Barrio links Amalia Mesa-Bains’s genre-defying installations for the first time.
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Cannes 2024: Megalopolis, Bird, The Damned, Meeting with Pol Pot
Whatever impulse prompted Francis Ford Coppola to combine elements of Virgil, Livy, Shakespeare, “Vertigo,” “The Fountainhead,” the career of Robert Moses, film noir, and science fiction into a single feature—well, it clearly wasn’t the most actionable impulse. The extremely long-in–the-making “Megalopolis” has been on his brain for 40 years or more. The reportedly self-financed movie…
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Prime Video’s Outer Range Opens Up in a Hole New Way in Season 2
Far out in the west passage of a Wyoming cattle ranch, dark and looming and as elusive as Brigadoon, lies a hole. A vast, black chasm surrounded by swirling energy, which sends anything and everything that falls down it through the obsidian abyss of time. Where it might end up, nobody knows; but most of…
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The Ebert Fellows Go to Ebertfest 2024
Editor’s note: Every spring we say farewell to the latest trio of University of Illinois College of Media Roger Ebert Fellows, whose work includes reports filed for rogerebert.com. The 2023-24 Fellows–Hanna Brazas-Mata, Caroline Tadla and Stephanie Wayda—talked to Ebertfest participants late last month about what the Virginia Theatre-located festival, a 25-year tradition, offers that others…
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Cannes 2024 Video #2: The Festival Takes Off
The Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Chaz Ebert is on the ground to report on every development, including the introduction of the jury, led by Greta Gerwig. Watch the video below, followed by the transcript. We’re back in the South of France for the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Although it’s not…