Met Opera’s Multimillion-Dollar Deal With Saudis Falls Through
The arrangement would have brought up to $200 million to the Metropolitan Opera, which has suffered a series of financial setbacks.
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Anne Hathaway, Queen of Effort, Is Finally Ready to Vibe
Known best for tightly wound characters in generational hit films, the actress is a tortured pop star in “Mother Mary” and returns to playful form in “The Devil Wears Prada 2.”
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CreditThea Traff for The New York Times Explaining the Michael Jackson Biopic’s Rough Path to the Screen
Reshoots, reluctant studios and family holdouts: the production faced many issues. But now the box office is expected to be huge.
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CreditGlen Wilson/Lionsgate, via Associated Press How a Museum Built Its Buzz: Popcorn, Puppets and Free Tickets
The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, long a home for cinephiles, doubled attendance by repositioning itself as a community hub.
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Is 1990s Alternative Rock the New Country?
Stagecoach Festival started out as the “country Coachella,” but has been morphing into a new home for ’90s rock bands slinging angst and guitar music.
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CreditDave Tonge/Getty Images ‘Beaches’ Review: A Classic Weepie Dries Its Tears
A new musical version of the 1980s tear-jerker comes to Broadway, but the production is too muddled to make an emotional impact.
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CreditRachel Papo for The New York Times Michael Tilson Thomas, Celebrated American Conductor, Dies at 81
A galvanizing force in classical music as a conductor, composer, pianist and evangelist, he spent 25 years as music director of the San Francisco Symphony.
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CreditStan Honda/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ‘I Swear’ Review: Surviving and Thriving Against the Odds
The British actor Robert Aramayo rises above the clichés in a biographical drama about a man living with Tourette’s syndrome.
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Great performances can’t quite save a delicate family road drama with a baffling ending.
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Turner Prize Nominees Take Viewers on ‘Extraordinary Journeys’
This year’s shortlist for the major British art award includes an artist who stages spoken-word performances and another who makes art using oil company merch bought off eBay.
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Dozens of titles leave the streaming service for U.S. subscribers every month. Here’s a roundup of the best ones leaving soon.
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CreditChiabella James/Paramount Pictures The Nerve Center of This Art Fair Isn’t Painting. It’s Couture.
The Independent fair will push boundaries, featuring designs by Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons that blur the line between fashion and sculpture.
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CreditComme des Garçons and Independent; Photo by Luis Corzo Inside LACMA’s Eye-Popping New Home, How Do You Find the Art?
Our critic calls the David Geffen Galleries “a beacon of glam with brains.” As a space to show art, it has problems. The Latino art is a revelation (if you can navigate the maze).
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CreditJennelle Fong for The New York Times CRITIC’S NOTEBOOKJudge Dismisses Sean Combs’s $100 Million Defamation Suit Against NBC
The music mogul, now imprisoned, had sued after NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock aired the documentary “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy” last year.
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‘Apex’ Review: Predator and Prey
Taron Egerton descends into full-tilt madness as a killer hunting Charlize Theron in this Netflix thriller set in southeastern Australia.
By Brandon Yu
Artist’s QuestionnaireThe Artist Making Work About Sweat, Ghosts and the Rivers of Pittsburgh
With Project Blue Space, the sculptor and image maker Shikeith brings the city’s Black history to the surface.
By Rose Courteau
Darrell Sheets, Auction Bidder Who Starred on ‘Storage Wars,’ Dies at 67
He appeared in 13 seasons of the long-running reality television show about storage-unit auctions. He later opened an antique shop in Arizona.
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Ruth Slenczynska, 101, Dies; Piano Prodigy Overcame Father’s Abuse
Treated brutally, she went from celebrated child star to 15-year-old “burned-out candle.” Against the odds, she later resumed performing.
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After a Hero’s Fall, What to Do With the Art That Honored Him?
Artists who created public depictions of the civil rights icon Cesar Chavez have had to revisit their works after accusations emerged of Mr. Chavez’s sexual abuse of girls in the movement.
By Tim Arango and Ariana Drehsler
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In the onetime Confederate capital, history is being told with newfound clarity.
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‘Two Women’ Review: An Erotic Protest Against Monogamy
A pair of neighbors start sleeping with local handymen in this featherweight sex comedy, set in Montreal.
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Critic’s pick‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ Review: Possibilities of a Blank Page
In this film of structural surprises, based on two works by the late manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge, lives converge on the beach and in a wintry village.
By Ben Kenigsberg
‘Over Your Dead Body’ Review: Unholy Matrimony
Jason Segel and Samara Weaving star in this gory home-invasion comedy directed by one of the members of the Lonely Island, Jorma Taccone.
By Beatrice Loayza
‘Fuze’ Review: Dishonor Among Thieves
A high-wattage cast led by Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sam Worthington helps smooth this amiably absurd heist thriller.
By Jeannette Catsoulis
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