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With their shifting textures and compositional variety, the relatively short pieces show the ways — in this case mostly gentle and lyrical — five musicians can fruitfully interact.
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Korean writer-director Kogonada’s meditation on life and how it’s lived is dreamy, haunting, profound, and deeply moving.
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Here’s to Heather and Bill, and this lively saga…
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Markus Friedrich, a professor of early modern history at the University of Hamburg, has written a scholarly but immensely readable history of the order that will appeal to an audience beyond the Catholic tradition.
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The Berlin international Film Festival has always been an event where films on art, architecture, and design premiere. This year, as always, the selections were a mixed bag.
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Sankofa Danzafro’s Accommodating Lie, is a bold work of art that delivers an indispensable history lesson.
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If you are not familiar with Wadada Leo Smith as an artist or as a thinker, you could start with The Chicago Symphonies and know that you are engaging with some of his finest work.
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Senorita 89 isn’t an easy watch because of its stinging depiction of misogyny, but it’s a powerful one.
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Visual Arts Commentary: Reordering Design Priorities Through Biometric Research
The cognitive architecture approach espoused by the Human Architecture and Planning Institute is applying a welcome new paradigm that responds in a fresh way to the built environment.
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