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Pelé, the Global Face of Soccer, Dies at 82
Pelé, who was declared a national treasure in his native Brazil, achieved worldwide celebrity and helped popularize the sport in the United States.
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Moscow on the Med: A Faraway War Transforms a Turkish Resort Town
Tens of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians have settled in Antalya, on Turkey’s southern coast, hoping to avoid the fallout of Russia’s war in Ukraine and start new lives.
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Israel’s Hard-Line Government Takes Office, Testing Bonds With Allies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition will likely test ties with the United States and Europe, amid fears that it will undermine the country’s democracy and stability.
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Machine Dazzle: How Many Ways Can You Say Fabulous?
In his museum survey and performances, the costume designer (and Taylor Mac collaborator) is like Krazy Glue — bonding art, theater and drag.
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Inside an Underground Network of Los Angeles Museums
Shrines to skateboarding, bunnies, neon, aviation and citrus trees dot the sprawling region, highlighting its diversity.
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Making Intergalactic and Intergenerational Art
The artists Lita Albuquerque and her daughters, Isabelle and Jasmine, explore big themes, like our role in the cosmos.
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When Cultural Heritage Becomes a Battlefront
Against the appalling human cost of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, its cultural toll may feel insignificant. But tallying the damage shows how central it is to the conflict.
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A Man Called Otto
In Marc Forster’s genial, earnest yet unremarkable dramedy “A Man Called Otto,” the titular character Otto can’t pick his daily battles even if his life depended on it. Living in an unfussy suburban neighborhood of identical row houses somewhere in the Midwest, the aging man gets easily annoyed by every little misstep of a stranger.…
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Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
In a 2015 interview with the Paris Review, editor Gordon Lish was asked many questions about his controversial working relationship with Raymond Carver, one of the most famous in the editor-writer-relationship canon. Lish used a heavy hand on Carver’s prose, slashing away at the text to create the “minimalism” for which Carver became famous. The…
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White Noise
Death unites us all. And societies are shaped by not just the dread of that inevitable outcome but the common manners in which we push those existential thoughts aside. Consumerism, conspiracy theories, and collective trauma collide in Noah Baumbach’s daring adaptation of a novel that may have been published in the mid-’80s but undeniably speaks…