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In his satire “The Golden Dragon,” Roland Schimmelpfennig holds his funhouse mirror up to “theater-people”: be they artists, audience, teachers, or students.
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In “Nouvelle Vague,” director Richard Linklater thrillingly captures the sense of Jean-Luc Godard as an artist feeling his way in real time, as if in a dark room, toward a new vision.
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“Against Morality” is the cri de coeur of a cultural critic who realizes that the presentation of art and its adjacent pursuits, including much art itself, have become the subsidiaries of progressive politics.
Read MoreTwo plays from major American dramatists interrogate how we come up with the stories we tell about ourselves.
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This week’s poem — Jennifer Jean’s “Wild Orca Family Chased Down by Jet-skiers Wanting Selfies”
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s return to form might be explained by his looking backward: the director has chosen to grapple with the fact that many of the pessimistic prophecies of his earlier films have come true.
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Thomas Clerc’s novel reminds us of a stubborn truth: we are all narcissists that live to accumulate shit in rooms.
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The script is symptomatic of the Trump era: a passionate rejection of the “politically correct” pushes warriors for “freedom,” as well as voices of radicalism, into morally despicable positions.
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This film offers a much more nuanced and self-reflective conversation about authorship, authenticity, creative inspiration, and the role of film criticism than any of its detractors are willing to admit.
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Arts Remembrance: Jack DeJohnette — As Much a Colorist as a Drummer
Jack DeJohnette – who died this week at age 83 of congestive heart failure – lorded over his entire kit with loose but incisive strokes to tightly tuned drum heads and cymbals.
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