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  • Paul Thek’s Eclectic Art
  • In an era where everyone has an opinion, how do we know who to trust?
  • Wendy Wasserstein’s Prescient Play

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

Paul Thek’s Eclectic Art

Also: Tori Amos with Bartees Strange, the French dancer Hugo Marchand, a play about the House Un-American Activities Committee, and more.

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independent.co.uk /1 month ago

In an era where everyone has an opinion, how do we know who to trust?

Influencers, TikTok reviewers and shrinking newsroom budgets have transformed arts criticism. At the National Critics Institute, Caitlin Hornik explored why professional critics st...

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

Wendy Wasserstein’s Prescient Play

Also: Misty Copeland’s Ballet Festival, the cogent poetry of Noname, the films of Otar Iosseliani, and more.

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dctheaterarts.org /5 days ago

La Pluma’s ‘Nation-State: A Live Experiment’ is a play of two worlds

The immersive testimonial experience showcases actor Victor Salinas’s talents but lacks the tension needed to drive home its satirical point. By JARED STRANGE

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

Critics’ Cult Classics: Hanif Abdurraqib on Camp Lo’s “Uptown Saturday Night”

The 1997 album marked a crossroads for hip-hop, as the genre was being torn between elaborate mythmaking and a kind of true crime.

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glasstire.com /1 month ago

“Bayou City Stewards” Proves the Importance of Cultural Sustenance

As artists and institutions grapple with what might be the most arts-hostile administration during what should be a jubilee year for the nation, some are managing to make and mount...

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newyorker.com /3 weeks ago

Critics’ Cult Classics: Hannah Goldfield on the Food World’s Secret Tastemakers

The New Yorker food correspondent discusses the recipes and restaurants that have defined the culinary good life—at least for those in the know.

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indiewire.com /1 month ago

Critic David Thomson Asks: Have Movies Made Our Culture Worse?

The author of "A Sudden Flicker of Light" breaks down his provocative new book on this week's edition of IndieWire's "Screen Talk" podcast. Elsewhere in the episode, we break down...

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

Julio Torres’s Sea Wench, Qween Jean at Little Island

Also: Flaco the Owl gets a documentary, Debra Winger and Arliss Howard play “The Gin Game,” Broken Social Scene and friends drop in on Brooklyn, and more.

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

“Tony,” “Late Fame,” and the Rocky Road to Literary Stardom

The protagonists of two films, an Anthony Bourdain bio-pic and a drama about a neglected poet, find themselves struggling with their writerly destinies.

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observer.com /1 month ago

What the Venice Biennale Reveals About the West’s Cultural Confidence

In a multipolar society where guilt is increasingly mistaken for depth and messaging for meaning, Arbra Partners founder Lucas Bitencourt argues that the power of the curator has d...

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newyorker.com /5 days ago

Jocelyn Bioh’s “Mean Girls” at a Ghana Beauty Pageant

Also: Harry Styles takes up residence at M.S.G., “Paranormal Activity” terrifies Broadway, Dakota Fanning and Jake Johnson star in a new movie, and more.

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

“Talking Classics,” “The Cruelty of Nice Folks,” “Glyph,” and “A Real Animal.”

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indiewire.com /2 days ago

‘Look Back’ Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Hyper-Faithful Adaptation Draws Rich and Dazzling New Textures from Manga and An...

Venice: Two girls bond over their love of creating manga in a bittersweet tragedy that gains as much as it loses during the jump to live-action.

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ekathimerini.com /1 month ago

The detritus of dwindling humanity

How can a play that seems dull when you’re watching it occupy your waking mind the next morning and leave a lasting impression? What accounts for this disparity? Is it, perhaps, be...

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indiewire.com /1 month ago

‘Characters Disappearing’ Review: Connor Sen Warnick’s Debut Presents a Timeless and Demure Vision of Revolutionary Chin...

A piece about Chinese-American Marxist group blends past and present to fascinating ends.

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observer.com /2 weeks ago

How Venice and New Media Art Are Making the White Cube Increasingly Obsolete

A recent run of ambitious site-specific projects demonstrates aptly why exhibitions must be conceived in dialogue with architecture, history and the bodies moving through them.

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

The Modern R. & B. of Olivia Dean and Baby Rose

Also: Cat Cohen’s one-woman musical comedy, the Anthony Bourdain bio-pic “Tony,” Battery Dance Festival by the water, and more.

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gaycitynews.com /1 month ago

‘What A World! What A World’: An exploration of gender and art

Gender, gender expression, cultural models, and rebellion against them animate the absurdist comedy “What a World! What a World!” by Eric Marlin now at The Tank for a short run thr...

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newyorker.com /3 weeks ago

“Dreams in Nightmares” Turns the Art Life Political

Struggles for personal and creative freedom fuel Shatara Michelle Ford’s second feature, about three women’s search for a friend gone missing.

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newyorker.com /1 month ago

“Lost Chapters” Weaves Literary Mysteries Into Family Bonds

The Venezuelan director Lorena Alvarado’s first feature, starring her own relatives in a fictional drama, connects a young woman’s homecoming and her artistic ambitions.

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nybooks.com /2 weeks ago

Braving the Labyrinth

Geoffrey O’Brien is one of those writers who can write about anything: opera, British postwar film, crime fiction, the Third Reich, Grant Wood, Patti Smith, Duke Ellington, Seinfel...

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rappler.com /4 days ago

How ‘Filipiñana’s’ slow burn exposes the Philippines’ class divide

Heat and thirst establish the class divide in ‘Filipiñana,’ Rafael Manuel’s satirical debut featuring a 17-year-old ‘tee girl’

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nybooks.com /1 day ago

Subject Relations

We try to end each season of The Critic and Her Publics with a little twist on our theme—something different and, often, a little risky or uncomfortable. Our final guest, Anna Silm...

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