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An incisive exhibition traces how Rembrandt, his Dutch contemporaries, and earlier artists remade a biblical story of concealment, power, and survival.
Janis Siegel’s first project since the Manhattan Transfer’s 2023 dissolution honors the lyric-driven jazz practice shaped by Eddie Jefferson and Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.
In “The Disciple: A Wagnerian Tale of the Gilded Age,” the cultural historian and novelist resurrects Wagner’s American apostle—and a progressive, populist musical culture that New York has largely forgotten.
At TIFF, Barbara Kopple follows exploited delivery workers, William Greaves revives the Harlem Renaissance, and Iranian filmmakers find private lives shadowed by surveillance, war, and repression, yet also beautified in some cases.
A six-LP, three-CD collection gives us the bassist leading exceptional small groups in music of rigor, energy, and expansive range.
Tom Overton’s lively, intimate biography follows the critic, novelist, artist, activist, and lifelong insurgent through a career that remade the ways we see.
Tom Cruise delivers a virtuoso turn, but Iñárritu buries a potentially potent climate-change comedy beneath exposition, self-congratulation, and stunts.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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