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A Fashion Designer’s Shrewd Eye for Curation

A Fashion Designer’s Shrewd Eye for Curation 1

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story MOMA’s new show “Artist’s Choice: Grace Wales Bonner—Spirit Movers” includes thirty-seven objects from the museum’s collection, many of them no larger than a sheet of typing paper. Yet the effect of…

Who Gets to Play in Women’s Leagues?

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Boulder, Colorado, where I was born and raised, is sometimes called the fittest city in America. Septuagenarians go skiing before work, high-school delinquents hang out at the climbing gym, and people…

Shane MacGowan Leaves the Astral Plane

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The Irish singer and songwriter Shane MacGowan, a founding member of the punk-rock band the Pogues, died on Thursday, of pneumonia, at age sixty-five. It might sound as though he went…

Frederick Wiseman in Paradise

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In “Menu-Plaisirs—Les Troisgros,” Frederick Wiseman’s four-hour documentary about a great French restaurant, playing at Film Forum, there is a kitchen like none that I’ve ever seen: a large rectangular room with…

The Best Movies of 2023

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Though a year in movie releases is a small and arbitrary sample size, it’s nonetheless clear that, at the moment, the art of cinema is in good shape in the United…

The Enduring Strangeness of Nicolas Cage

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In “Dream Scenario,” the new A24 film from the writer-director Kristoffer Borgli, Nicolas Cage plays Paul Matthews, an underappreciated and ineffectual college professor who finds fame because of an odd metaphysical…

The French Are Not Happy About “Napoleon”

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon.”Photograph courtesy Apple TV+ Americans are so used to seeing history played by Americans that the oddity of it hardly registers anymore. Charlton Heston was the…