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Music Feature: The Best Jazz Albums of 2024

December 23, 2024
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The magazine’s jazz critics look back over the past year and highlight their favorite albums.

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Coming Attractions: December 22 Through January 6 — What Will Light Your Fire

December 22, 2024
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

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Visual Arts Review: A Trio of Shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography

December 22, 2024
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A look at three exhibitions of photography — two of them shine a revealing light on personal and political concerns.

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Film Review: “Nosferatu” — Stay for a Bite

December 22, 2024
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Director Robert Eggers’ take on the venerable vampire is a little too buttoned-up, too clean, too refined.

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Visual Arts Review: “Draw Them In, Paint Them Out” — An Exhibition Whose Time Has Passed

December 22, 2024
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Museum exhibitions take a long time to put together, and the circumstances that justify them at their inception sometimes evaporate by the time they appear.

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Arts Feature: The 10 Best Music Documentaries of 2024 — Along with Others Worth Watching and a Few Disappointments

December 21, 2024
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If there’s a documentary on this list that you want to see and it isn’t readily available, I’d suggest following it on social media or checking if its website has an email list that will announce future screenings or streamings.

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Film Review: “A Complete Unknown” — A Fable Well Worth Telling

December 21, 2024
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Focusing on the years between 1961 and 1964, director James Mangold turns Bob Dylan’s creative journey into a better-than-average cinematic biography in which the singer ends up riding off on his motorcycle and into history.

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Book Review: The Night Bob Dylan Plugged in

December 21, 2024
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Bob Dylan had been soundly booed for playing a set plugged. What ninnies dictate the rules in the backwater world of American folk music!

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Film Review: “Maria” — A Convincing Portrait of a Woman Consumed by the Art That Nourished Her

December 20, 2024
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This might not be everybody’s idea of who Maria Callas was, but the film is plausible, and honest. You can watch Angelina Jolie’s Maria and think, so that’s what it was like to be her.

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Arts Feature: According to Our Critics — The Best That TV Offered in 2024

December 19, 2024
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Our critics supply their TV favorites of 2024.

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