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MoMA’s Daydream of Progress
An artist’s A.I. turns thousands of works from the museum’s collection into a cheerful vision of the next avant-garde. Will “Unsupervised” help MoMA stay relevant?
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Best Art Books of 2022
Holland Cotter, Jason Farago and Roberta Smith round up their favorite books, from museum catalogs of high-profile shows to photographs by Native artists to the treasures of Ukraine.
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Artist or Artifice: Who Is Adam Himebauch?
Through a digital performance and gallery show, the painter meticulously creates the persona of an older, acclaimed artist. The hoax has kept the art crowd guessing.
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In Harlem, a Playful New Youth Center Is an Instant Landmark
Filled with light, the cozy headquarters of the Brotherhood Sister Sol is designed to tell children “they matter.”
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Netflix’s Dull CIA Series The Recruit is More Like Paperwork
With all respect to the actual pencil pushers and desk jockeys at Langley, I’m sure that working at the CIA isn’t inherently the Jack Ryan, Jason Bourne, or Bryan Mills-like action bonanza that it’s cracked up to be. Of course, someone has to do the paperwork and the bureaucratic acrobatics to protect assets, vet threats, and…
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The Big 4
Indonesian director Timo Tjahjanto makes movies that embrace the absurd potential of filmmaking. I remember being a kid and hearing someone say that the best action movies show you something you’ve never seen before and you’re not sure is even possible. Tjahjanto believes in a chaotic, comedic approach to action filmmaking, which reached its career…
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Jurassic Punk
Steve “Spaz” Williams is not a name that’s in the front of most movie lovers’ minds, but he’s a famous name to veterans of the special effects industry: a pioneer in motion-capture and realistic computer rendering who helped make the current era of cinema possible, for better and worse. The documentary “Jurassic Punk” explains why his name…
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Yellowstone Prequel 1923 Gets Off to a Slow Trot
It’s astonishing to see the grip Taylor Sheridan has on a specific subset of the American public, and I can’t say I blame them. His hit series, “Yellowstone,” is the backbone of Paramount’s TV network, rivaled only by the ever-expanding galaxy of “Star Trek” spinoffs that come out every other month. But where “Trek” appeals…
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Nanny
Hollywood’s output of American immigrant plotlines is endless. Yet while many of them are no doubt empathetic films, they also contain a sense of distance. Whether it’s in a film’s decades-ago period or a focus on the external forces that other its characters, rather than their interiorities and inner thoughts, this particular subject of film…
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New Zealand government-managed service provider got hacked
An information technology-managed service provider that provides services to support a range of organizations, including several government agencies, has experienced a cyber incident that has compromised access to its data and systems. The provider has engaged external cyber security response support and reported the incident to agencies including the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), New…