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  1. Art Review

    At Tiffany’s Flagship, Luxe Art Helps Sell the Jewels

    Turrell. Hirst. Basquiat: This 10-story palace is filled with famous names, for a heady fusion of relevant, and discomfiting, contemporary art and retailing.

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    Looming next to vitrines filled with engagement rings are Daniel Arsham’s “Bronze Eroded Venus of Arles” (2022), at left, and Anish Kapoor’s “Random Triangle Mirror” (2016) at right, on the third floor of the Tiffany flagship store on Fifth Avenue.
    Looming next to vitrines filled with engagement rings are Daniel Arsham’s “Bronze Eroded Venus of Arles” (2022), at left, and Anish Kapoor’s “Random Triangle Mirror” (2016) at right, on the third floor of the Tiffany flagship store on Fifth Avenue.
    CreditAnish Kapoor. All Rights Reserved, DACS, London/ARS, NY; Photo by Jeenah Moon for The New York Times
  1. ‘La Chimera’ Review: A Treasure Trove

    In her latest dreamy movie, the Italian director Alice Rohrwacher follows a tomb raider, played by Josh O’Connor, who’s pining for a lost love.

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    Josh O’Connor, center, in “La Chimera,” the latest from Alice Rohrwacher, who has quickly become a must-see filmmaker on the international circuit.
    CreditNeon
    Critic’s pick
  2. ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ Review: Running Out of Steam

    The latest in the Warner Bros. Monsterverse franchise shows signs of an anemic imagination.

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    The two main attractions in “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.”
    CreditWarner Bros.
  3. The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Rage and Grief

    Käthe Kollwitz’s fierce belief in social justice and her indelible images made her one of Germany’s best printmakers. A dazzling MoMA show reminds us why.

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    In Käthe Kollwitz’s “Woman with Dead Child,” in a Museum of Modern Art survey, two figures become one in the mother’s tight embrace. Etching with drypoint, sandpaper; artist’s proof.
    CreditThe Trustees of the British Museum
    Critic’s Pick
  4. When Richard Serra’s Steel Curves Became a Memorial

    The sculptor had a breakthrough in the late 1990s with his torqued metal rings. Then the attack on the World Trade Center, which Serra witnessed, gave them a sudden new significance.

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    Three of Richard Serra’s “Torqued Ellipses,” from 1996-97, now on permanent view at the Dia Art Foundation in Beacon, N.Y. The curving steel plates have oxidized since their debut from vermilion to dark brown.
    CreditRichard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Photo by Victor Llorente for The New York Times
    Critic’s Notebook
  5. When Larry Met Jean-Michel

    A new exhibition tells the dealer’s story of how two rising stars, Larry Gagosian and Jean-Michel Basquiat, worked together in Los Angeles in the ’80s.

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    Larry Gagosian and Jean-Michel Basquiat, around 1982, when the artist visited Los Angeles and produced an enormous amount of paintings.
    CreditGagosian Beverly Hills
    Critic’s Notebook
  1. ‘On the Adamant’ Review: A Psychiatric Facility on the Seine

    This documentary by Nicolas Philibert drifts along, with unnamed patients and their caretakers, on a large houseboat in Paris.

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    In “On the Adamant,” Nicolas Philibert is fascinated by the inner-workings of institutions in his native France.
    CreditKino Lorber
  2. ‘Wicked Little Letters’ Review: Prim, Proper and Profane

    Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley elevate a comedy about a weird true tale of defamation and dirty words.

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    Olivia Colman, left, with Jessie Buckley in “Wicked Little Letters.”
    CreditParisa Taghizadeh/Sony Pictures Classics
  3. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now

    Julia Perry’s Violin Concerto, a collection of Copland works conducted by Copland and a program of songs by Black composers are among the highlights.

     

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  4. Crisis-Hit British Museum Gets New Leader

    Nicholas Cullinan will take over the London institution as it faces the fallout from a theft scandal and calls for the return of objects in its collection.

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    Nicholas Cullinan speaking at the National Portrait Gallery Gala in London this month.
    CreditDavid Parry/Shutterstock
  5. Game Reviews: These Bonds Can Conquer Even Death

    Open Roads, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake and Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden shred the heartstrings with quests for those in close relationships.

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    In Open Roads, what’s kept from each character — hidden embarrassments and prideful lies — is the plot’s greatest pull.
    CreditOpen Roads Team

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  1. Scheming and Sex in a Queer King’s Court

    In the historical drama “Mary and George,” new on Starz, Julianne Moore plays an ambitious mother whose son catches the eye of King James I of England.

    By Roslyn Sulcas

     
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