Schumann: The Symphonies Staatskapelle Berlin; Daniel Barenboim, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon) These recordings of Schumann’s four symphonies …
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THE THAI EGGPLANT is tiny and round, dainty in the hand. The Annina eggplant hangs straight down, like a bell. The Picasso eggplant is a dark …
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Moon Jars, Luminous and Graceful, Are Entrancing Modern Ceramists
by SITKI KOVALIby SITKI KOVALITHE TRADITIONAL KOREAN moon jar — a large, rounded vessel glazed with an opaline sheen — has been a much-celebrated object for centuries …
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In late June, Microsoft released a new kind of artificial intelligence technology that could generate its own computer code. Called Copilot, the …
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In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ They Perfect the Art of Deception
by SITKI KOVALIby SITKI KOVALI“I know we brothers,” Lincoln tells his younger sibling, Booth, in Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Topdog/Underdog.” With a slight hesitation, he then asks …
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They Were Ahead of the Curve on Diversity in Classical Music
by SITKI KOVALIby SITKI KOVALIIt was the late 1990s, and Afa Sadykhly Dworkin saw a woman crying backstage at a concert hall in Michigan. Dworkin was there helping to run a …
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Steven Spielberg’s new semi-autobiographical film, “The Fabelmans,” hits many standard biopic beats: A Jewish boy, Sammy Fabelman, falls in love …
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‘Specimen Days’ Is Both an Ode to Walt Whitman and Its Own Portrait of America
by SITKI KOVALIby SITKI KOVALIBOOKS OFTEN FALL into penumbral areas of reception and Michael Cunningham seems to have been aware that a version of this fate might await his …
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‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Review: Nan Goldin’s Art and Activism
by SITKI KOVALIby SITKI KOVALIAmong the thousands of items in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection is the 1980 Nan Goldin photograph titled “Heart-Shaped Bruise, NYC …
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The news that Tim Burton would be directing half the episodes of “Wednesday,” Netflix’s new dramedy about the Addams Family’s death-obsessed …