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Artist’s Response to Racist Whistler Mural at Tate Britain Walks a Fine Line
Activists urged Tate Britain to take an offensive artwork from 1927 off its walls, but the museum instead commissioned Keith Piper to create a response.
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The Designer Who Makes Movie Posters Worthy of Museums
You’ve seen Dawn Baillie’s posters for thrillers, comedies and dramas outside cineplexes. Now her work is being exhibited at Poster House in Manhattan.
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Monkey Man
Dev Patel pours his entire self into “Monkey Man.” Some comes over the sides and the mix might not always be right but there’s an undeniable passion here that comes through in a genre that too often feels like it came off an assembly line. The writer, producer, star, director, and guy who broke a…
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SXSW 2024: Dickweed, Secret Mall Apartment, She Looks Like Me
Some documentaries hinge on the wild nature of their story. Can you believe that happened? Can you believe those people did that? Can you believe that connection between two people who never knew each other? The best of these films use their twists to illuminate something about the human condition, whether it’s a need for…
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High & Low – John Galliano
In the midst of reviewing a horror film, I was given a reassignment of the documentary “High and Low – John Galliano” by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald. I have never been afraid to write a review, let alone give it a rating, but this documentary took me for a spin. I had not wrapped my…
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War Was Not Over at the 2024 Oscars
Clad in gowns and tuxes on the morning of Oscar Sunday, journalists from around the world board shuttles that transport them from the Cinerama Dome to a point near the complex that houses the Dolby Theatre—where the big event takes place. This year, however, the logistics had to account for the expected pro-Palestine protests in…
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59 CVEs primed for Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday
Just two critical-severity issues addressed, though Azure and OMI admins won’t want to delay patching this month
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The 2024 Sophos Threat Report: Cybercrime on Main Street
Ransomware remains the biggest existential cyber threat to small businesses, but others are growing.
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This 1,000-Year-Old Smartphone Just Dialed In
An 11th-century astrolabe, a complex instrument for precisely mapping the heavens, recently turned up in an Italian museum.
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For Some Mammals, Large Adult Daughters, Not Sons, Are the Norm
Despite a common narrative that male mammals tend to dwarf female ones, fewer than half of mammalian species display that pattern, a new study suggests.