Art and Culture

Back in, say, 2019, if a filmmaker signed a deal with Netflix, it meant that he or she would be well paid and receive complete creative freedom. Theatrical release? Not so much. Still, the paycheck and the latitude — and the potential to…
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American Fiction won the Oscar already. Photo: MGM/Everett Collection Hey,…
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The revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber show won seven Oliviers, matching the totals won by Hamilton, Matilda, and Cabaret. – The Telegraph (UK) (MSN) Source link
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5Chani AppI used to be very skeptical of astrology. I had read too many Carl Sagan books in college, and I thought, well, it’s all pseudoscience. This app is more about understanding your chart as a way to develop yourself —…
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“What I noticed about these three films, specifically, is also that they’re all funny and light,” Glass said. “But inevitably, I think a lot of the discussion around it is very somber. And I think what puts a lot of people off,…
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Chugging through Pacific waters in February 1942, the USS Crescent City was ferrying construction equipment and Navy personnel to Pearl Harbor, dispatched there to assist in repairing the severely damaged naval base after the Japanese…
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It’s a perennial question for New Yorkers and tourists alike: Why does Broadway feel so expensive?If Broadway feels more expensive than ever before, that’s because it is. Despite crowds that haven’t rebounded to pre-COVID levels, the…
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Recently, Bonaventure Dossou learned of an alarming tendency in a popular AI model. The program described Fon—a language spoken by Dossou’s mother and millions of others in Benin and neighboring countries—as “a fictional language.”This…
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This article is taken from the April 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. Seiji Ozawa was the first of his kind and, in many…
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In what would seem to be a new technique for explicating an exhibition that’s exasperatingly inexplicable, the NY Times gave three critics—Jason Farago, Travis Diehl and Martha Schwendener—a shot at trying to make sense of “Even Better…
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