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Why Electro’s Exacting Duo Justice Wanted to Break Its Own Rules

For “Hyperdrama,” Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay’s first album in eight years, the duo added genre experiments and guests to its arsenal of bangers.

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Why Electro’s Exacting Duo Justice Wanted to Break Its Own Rules

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St. Vincent Dives Headfirst Into the Darkness

Seven albums and 17 years into an acclaimed solo career, the musician Annie Clark said she craved “a pummeling” on her new LP: “I want something to feel dangerous.”

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St. Vincent Dives Headfirst Into the Darkness

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Hipgnosis Agrees to $1.4 Billion Deal to Sell to Concord

Hipgnosis, which owns the rights to songs by Justin Bieber and Neil Young, helped kick-start a rush on catalog sales. But its future has been in doubt.

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Hipgnosis Agrees to $1.4 Billion Deal to Sell to Concord

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Jorie Graham’s Poetry of the Earth and Humanity, Set to Music

The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.”

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Jorie Graham’s Poetry of the Earth and Humanity, Set to Music

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‘Gun & Powder’ Review: Twin Vigilantes Stake Claim to the American West

The musical traces the story of Black twin sisters who pass as white, and exact their own form of justice for the crime of slavery, in 19th-century Texas.

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‘Gun & Powder’ Review: Twin Vigilantes Stake Claim to the American West

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‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: War, Undemanding

Guy Ritchie’s latest is the platonic ideal of an airplane movie, which is not exactly a good thing.

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‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: War, Undemanding

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In ‘Franklin,’ Michael Douglas Uses His Charm to Bankroll America

A new Apple TV+ series dramatizes the years Benjamin Franklin spent in France, leveraging diplomacy and guile to secure his nascent country’s future.

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In ‘Franklin,’ Michael Douglas Uses His Charm to Bankroll America

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‘The Wiz’ Review: A Black Classic Returns to Broadway

Almost 50 years after it debuted, this classic Black take on “The Wizard of Oz” tries to update its original formula.

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‘The Wiz’ Review: A Black Classic Returns to Broadway

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A Millennial Weaver Carries a Centuries-Old Craft Forward

Melissa Cody mastered a weaving tradition dating back millenniums, but her eye-dazzling patterns joyously venture beyond it.

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A Millennial Weaver Carries a Centuries-Old Craft Forward

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‘Abigail’ Review: Horror by Numbers

In this cheerfully unambitious vampire movie, a bloodsucker is shut up in an old mansion with some nitwit criminals. Will there will be gore? You bet.

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‘Abigail’ Review: Horror by Numbers

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After 70 Years, Si Lewen’s Wrenching ‘Parade’ Marches On

This sequence of 63 bravura antiwar drawings hasn’t been shown in New York in nearly seven decades but they’re up again now, thanks to Art Spiegelman.

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After 70 Years, Si Lewen’s Wrenching ‘Parade’ Marches On

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On the Ground at the Venice Biennale

Scenes from the pre-opening at the pivotal art event.

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On the Ground at the Venice Biennale

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Camille Claudel's hand, not her trauma, is at the center of a magnificent Getty Museum show

Sculptor Camille Claudel was more than a tragic figure. Her art influenced her titanic mentor, Auguste Rodin. A smart L.A. exhibition explains how

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Camille Claudel's hand, not her trauma, is at the center of a magnificent Getty Museum show

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Broadway makes way for 'Crazy Rich Asians' with new musical directed by Jon M. Chu

Filmmaker Jon M. Chu will find familiar material in his Broadway debut as he directs a musical adaptation of author Kevin Kwan's 'Crazy Rich Asians' trilogy.

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Broadway makes way for 'Crazy Rich Asians' with new musical directed by Jon M. Chu

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Review: 'Monsters of the American Cinema' confronts the horror in grief

Christian St. Croix's 'Monsters of the American Cinema' has its Los Angeles premiere at the Matrix Theatre in a Rogue Machine production directed by John Perrin Flynn.

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Review: 'Monsters of the American Cinema' confronts the horror in grief

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