Arts
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Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Focuses on Forgotten Figures
An inaugural digital exhibition, “Becoming Visible,” traces the paths of five notable women whose stories have been largely erased.
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Bringing ‘Teeth,’ a Feminist Awakening With a Lethal Bite, to the Stage
Michael R. Jackson is helping adapt the darkly comic horror film into a musical. But can a show about a…
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Twice, a K-Pop Girl Group, Tops the Billboard Chart for the First Time
The act’s six-song EP “With You-th” debuts at No. 1, while Morgan Wallen celebrates a year of “One Thing at…
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Wanted: Writers for Awards Show Jokes. Must Be Skilled at Diplomacy
Hosts who have to entertain insiders at the ceremony and outsiders watching at home. Presenters who change their minds. No…
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Why Is There No Oscar for Best Choreography?
Imaginative dance abounds in Hollywood, but its creators remain unheralded at awards time.
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Playing Infinite Craft Is Like Peering Into an A.I.’s Brain
A large language model generates answers as gamers combine blocks of text. It can get as weird as “Farming Simulator…
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Jazz Concerts Celebrate Met Opera Composers on an Intimate Scale
Terence Blanchard and Anthony Davis, recent pioneers at the Metropolitan Opera, returned to earlier works in a pair of performances…
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‘Spaceman’ Has an Identity Crisis. So Do Plenty of Sci-Fi Space Movies.
With the release of Adam Sandler’s odd, middling and expensive new Netflix film, a look at space movie misfires of…
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In ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘The Zone of Interest,’ We Hear What We Are
Humans have spent much of history coming up with novel ways to exterminate one another, but the defining feature of…
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The ‘Dune’ Popcorn Bucket and the Golden Age of Movie Merch
The hilariously suggestive misfire is a reminder of the days when too-weird-to-be-true film mementos could be found in every kitchen…