When his cryptocurrency exchange started teetering in early November, Sam Bankman-Fried went on Twitter to calm everyone down. FTX was fine, he …
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A Nick Cave Survey With Plenty of Bells but No Whistles
by SITKI KOVALIby SITKI KOVALIIn 1992, when Nick Cave made his first soundsuit, the ornate, full-body garments for which he is best known, it was his response to the beating …
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Review: In ‘The Hours,’ Prima Donnas and Emotions Soar
by SITKI KOVALIby SITKI KOVALI“The Hours” — a new opera based on the 1998 novel and the 2002 film it inspired — features a redoubtable trio of prima donnas. And it was …
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Pablo Milanés, who died in Madrid this week at 79, left behind a body of work that was deeply personal even as he navigated one of the 20th …
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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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Steven Spielberg’s new semi-autobiographical film, “The Fabelmans,” hits many standard biopic beats: A Jewish boy, Sammy Fabelman, falls in love …