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Spain’s Female Soccer Players Strike Over Wage Dispute
The season was scheduled to begin on Friday, but the players refused to play after talks with the league brought no agreement. The dispute comes amid a debate over sexism and soccer in Spain.
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Top French Court Upholds Abaya Ban in Schools
Critics of a new decree barring public school students from wearing abayas — loosefitting robes worn by some Muslim women — had filed an emergency petition calling the measure discriminatory.
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Researchers Identify Jews Aided by Catholics in Nazi Era as Pope Was Silent
The names were found in documents recently studied by the Vatican, but historians say they don’t change the fundamental understanding of the church’s actions during the war.
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‘Ed Ruscha/Now Then’ Review: American Art’s Deadpan Laureate
Ed Ruscha, intrepid explorer of language and image, prefigured a digital culture of words on the move. A retrospective at MoMA shines new light on his groundbreaking career: the books, the paintings, the room made of chocolate.
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The Armory Show, in a Back-to-School Edition
Art fairs come early, tailoring their calendars to compete with the city’s big fall gallery and museum exhibitions. A critic’s 11 favorite booths.
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A Dozen Looted Artifacts Are Returned to Lebanon
Some of the pieces were seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and others from the New Jersey storage unit of a Lebanese collector and dealer.
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Independent Art Fair Brings Unseen Masterpieces to New York
In its second edition, the boutique fair’s 20th-century focus brings unseen masterpieces to New York.
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Telluride Film Festival 2023 Highlights
The journey of attending film festivals encompasses screening new films, meeting film talent, and networking with fellow critics and moviegoers. It never disappoints, and on-site experience has always heightened my film perspective. Each film festival has its unique vibe and tone; having attended Cannes, Sundance, and Toronto, I’ve been waiting for the right time to…
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Film Forum’s Ousmane Sembène Retrospective Honors the Senegalese Master
For decades, Ousmane Sembène has carried the burden of being a representative for an entire continent’s cinema: essentially the only known African filmmaker in Europe and the West and, even given that, his entire body of work is only familiar to a small handful of scholars and fanatics. There are manifold explanations for how little…
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The Walking Dead Finds Religion In the Compelling, Odd Spinoff Daryl Dixon
As I mentioned in my review of the previous “Walking Dead” spinoff “Dead City” months back, AMC’s flagship franchise must bristle in the wake of “The Last of Us”’s success over at HBO. With their newest spinoff, “Daryl Dixon,” the comparisons become even more inescapable: Pair a grizzled, traumatized zombie killer with a young child…