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August 14.
What a clown. Because everybody knows.

Johnny Abrahams

Best Books Ever: Musil’s Unfinished Masterwork

Best Books Ever series examines authors' singular favorite book of all time. A decadent sachertorte, a very dense topfentorte—from the culture that truly invented the... Text by Pina Lomb.
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Works on Paper: Renoirs at The Morgan This Fall

The Great Bathers (1884 to 1887). Auguste Renoir. Courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art.

UPTOWN—A large show of works on paper by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is being organized for this October by Colin Bailey, the Morgan's new director, according to... Text by Dannik.
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Essay: Should Artists Be Committed?

Christ's Descent into Hell by Hieronymus Bosch. Fig. 6. Detail of Sisyphus in 26.244. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 613

No, not committed like that. Many in the arts have effectively bought—hook, line and sinker—into French writer Jean-Paul Sartre's dictum that one must be committed—that... Text by Pina Lomb.
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New A24-Renovated Cherry Lane Theatre Holds Great Potential Starting September

Credit: Aphra Natley

DOWNTOWN—The Cherry Lane Theatre, located at 38 Commerce Street, has produced works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Luigi Pirandello, Samuel Beckett (Beckett's play Happy... Text by Liora Ashwood.
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Let’s Rethink Hollywood Shuffle

Robert Townsend in a still from Hollywood Shuffle (1987)

HOLLYWOOD—Robert Townsend's debut film Hollywood Shuffle (1987) is more than a spoof film; it is forever an earnest, imaginative and poetic work of satire, touching... Text by Dalia Morgan.
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The Voice Behind the Curtain With Versatile Voice Actor and Singer Dédé

Valeria Krel (VK): You’re an award-nominated voice actor. How does voice acting relate to singing, if at all? Do you find the two influence each... Text by Valeria Krel.
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Pasta Queen

Credit: Aphra Natley

ROME—Allow me to introduce you to Loredana Bertè if you don’t already know her. By 1980, she had already established herself in Italy. That year,... Text by Liora Ashwood.
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Octopus

Still from Philippe Garrel film.

A reminder again not to allow oceanic thoughts so close to me so often. After a night of such allowances, a dream in which I... Text by John Hudson White.
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Metrograph and Grimm Gallery Collaborate on Louise Giovanelli’s New Works

Louise Giovanelli, Arena, 2020

DOWNTOWN—British artist Louise Giovanelli is now showing new work at Grimm 54. The exhibition, Still Moving, goes through June 21, 2025, and features a bunch... Text by Dalia Morgan.
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Legacy of Monica Vitti Honored at Lincoln Center

Photo: AFP

ROME—Few actors have navigated the currents of 20th-century Italian cinema with the agility of Monica Vitti. Born Maria Luisa Ceciarelli in 1931, she became a... Text by Tasmin Blake.
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Popes and Dancers With Sculptor and Illustrator Francesco Messina

Francesco Messina

ROME—In 2022, the city of Rome hosted a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Francesco Messina at Villa Torlonia. Titled Francesco Messina. Novecento Contemporaneo, the show brought... Text by Dannik.
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Rediscovering Lina Wertmuller’s Love and Anarchy

Love and Anarchy (Lina Wertmüller, 1973)

Lina Wertmuller is not a household name—and that’s the scandal. While Bertolucci’s Il Conformista was showered with accolades, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best... Text by Dalia Morgan.
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Language of Bamboo: Tradition and Innovation at Gucci’s Bamboo Encounters

Image courtesy of Gucci.

MILAN—Italy’s long affection for bamboo can be found everyone, no less in Franco Maria Ricci’s Labirinto della Masone, the sprawling bamboo maze outside Parma, stands... Text by Cici Thompson.
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A Musical Documentary On Athens Youth With What We Ask of a Statue Is That It Doesn’t Move

Credit: Aphra Natley

ATHENS—Daphné Hérétakis’ What We Ask of a Statue Is That It Doesn’t Move is a captivating hybrid short that explores the psychic dissonance of living... Text by Dalia Morgan.
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Pynchon Returns with a Big Band Mystery

Thomas Pynchon in 1955, before he disappeared from public view. Photograph: Bettmann/Bettmann Archive

At 87, Thomas Pynchon is stepping once more into the literary spotlight—or just close enough to cast a shadow. Shadow Ticket, his first novel in... Text by Richard Aubern.
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The Idea Economy and Grief With Courtney Stephens’ and Callie Hernandez’ Invention

Still from Invention by Courtney Stephens

Courtney Stephens’ and Callie Hernández's film Invention blends the actual passing of both of their late fathers, with Stephens' first foray into nonfiction. Drawing from... Text by Dalia Morgan.
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Plays: First Reading of The Wolf Is An Endangered Species

DOWNTOWN—In what, in my view, is becoming a growing convergence between the worlds of theater, and the special amalgamation of fashion and art that has... Text by Pina Lomb.
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The Geometry of Motion and Zadie Smith

Photograph by Erich Höhne. Courtesy of Deutsche Fotothek.

Wassily Kandinsky, a painter of color and form, once envisioned a future where dance would shed its ornamental constraints and move toward abstraction. In Concerning... Text by Marguerite de Ponty.
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The Spinning Room

Adam Stēch.

Our spinning room is always looking for sound advice. For general disagreements, suggestions, to send us your almanac, cassette, vhs, record, or secret love letters... Text by Richard Aubern.
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Five Questions for Greek Fashion Designer Kostas Murkudis

Photo by Martina Borsche

BERLIN—I don't really think that fashion is responding to the current state of the world. Text by Kostas Murkudis.
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Fiction: The Hand in the Waves

Photo by Lena Be

Why did I go out onto the balcony? The waves. That’s why. They were massive. Massive and black and smashing into the side of the... Text by Rupert Taylor.
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Basel: All For Sale

Painting by Maaike Schoorel

BASEL—Going to Art Basel is always a unique experience. For the majority, the art on display is merely entertainment; after all, any work, whether mighty... Text by Madina Tulakova.
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Music EDIT RAdar 1

Music Edit RAdar 2

This following list of music was created to represent the first iteration of Music EDIT RAdar. Best New Foreign ArtistsFettuccine (Italian), Silvana Estrada (Mexican), Tellavision... Text by Editors.
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An Original Narrative and Diegetic Music With La Chimera

16mm still from La Chimera.

Alice (ah-LEE-cheh) Rohrwacher's latest movie, a 16mm fable replete with diegetic music—music that exists within the world of the film and helps tell its story,... Text by Dalia Morgan.
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The Poetry of Materials

Janice Lourie's computer-driven loom transformed textile manufacturing. Photo courtesy of IBM

Textile art, or as Anni Albers said, "the poetry of materials," has had many lives. In the 40s, we loved fabric. 24 foot stage curtains.... Text by Pina Lomb.
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Five Questions for Franco Maria Ricci

Franco Maria Ricci in 1984, at the launch of FMR U.S.A. at the New York Public Library.

Caverns were probably the first labyrinthine structures human beings came into contact with, in a distant past. And I, too, rummaged through my own past,... Text by fmr.
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On Identity With Alexandra Kleeman

Credit: Aphra Natley

A cultural milieu is difficult to change—it exists across and within all of us. Text by Alexandra Kleeman.
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To Live and Die In Dime Square

Photo by Ernst Haas

Nobody calls it Dimes Square without modulating their voice like they’re quoting someone. Nobody calls this place Dimes Square because it’s not called Dimes Square.... Text by Melissa Mesku.
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The Thing About Not Being Heartbroken by Chloe Caldwell

Photo by James J. Williams III

I’ve never done this before, a reading stoned. I have zero anxiety. I drop $50 in the bookstore on tote bags and Anaïs Nin. Everyone... Text by Chloe Caldwell.
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