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• Robert F.X. Sillerman Dies at 71; Built Entertainment Empires

  28-11-2019 23:57 via nytimes.com
  
  A brash figure in the financial pages, he bought and sold lucrative radio and concert businesses and controlled the Elvis Presley estate.
  
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• Where to Eat and Drink at 14 N.Y.C. Museums Right Now

  28-11-2019 22:37 via nytimes.com
  
  Dine while overlooking Central Park, sip mezcal in East Harlem or get a taste of Pierre Cardin’s Parisian bistro in Brooklyn.
  
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• Holiday Museum Guide: Where to See Art This Season

  28-11-2019 22:28 via nytimes.com
  
  We’ll not only help you figure out what exhibitions to see, but also offer some tips before you head out.
  
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• 3 Choice Museums and a Treat for Kids, No Subway Trips in Between

  28-11-2019 22:09 via nytimes.com
  
  These midsize institutions, all in Midtown, are close enough for a single afternoon’s tour (and with enough time in there for a bite).
  
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• After Misty Comes Marie. Breaking Barriers in ‘The Nutcracker.’

  28-11-2019 17:59 via nytimes.com
  
  This year, for the first time, New York City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ has a black Marie, the young heroine whose life is charged with magic.
  
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• At the Heart of a 19th-Century Opera: Modern Gun Culture

  28-11-2019 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  With a new version of Weber’s “Der Freischütz,” Heartbeat Opera has done its latest rethinking of a classic.
  
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• A Star Pianist Brings Soft-Spoken Virtuosity to Scriabin

  28-11-2019 16:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Daniil Trifonov begins his artist-in-residence season at the New York Philharmonic with an exciting performance of Scriabin’s youthful concerto.
  
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• Muhammad Ali in a Broadway Musical? It Happened.

  28-11-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Fifty years ago this week, “Buck White” opened, and very quickly closed. What does this footnote to theater history still have to tell us?
  
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• Diablo Cody’s Week: ‘I’m a Phone Addict’

  28-11-2019 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The Oscar-winning screenwriter and first-time Broadway librettist shares what she watched, read and listened to in a week.
  
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• The T List: A New Place to Indulge One’s Sweet Tooth, and More

  28-11-2019 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  What to eat, wear and see this week, from the editors of T Magazine.
  
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• The Most Important Works of the 2010s: Favorite Artworks That Didn’t Make the List

  28-11-2019 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  Today, ARTnews presented a list of the most important artworks produced between 2010 and 2019: just 20 of them. Of course, many more works were made in that span of time that remain absolutely essential. Below are a few more entries from the editors, involving only pieces by artists not represented on the main list. Let the debates begin.
  Andy Battaglia, Deputy Editor
  Laurie Anderson, Habeas Corpus, 2015Matthew Barney, River of Fundament, 2015Carol Bove, Polka Dots, 2016David Brooks, Continuous
  
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• The Most Important Artworks of the 2010s

  28-11-2019 15:00 via artnews.com
  
  Over the past decade, the number—and size!—of museums, galleries, art fairs, and art schools around the world has grown dramatically, and it feels safe to say that more art was made in the past 10 years than at any other time in the history of humanity. Picking the 20 works that definitively defined that stretch of time is a fundamentally impossible project, but as the decade ends, the editors of ARTnews have taken a stab at it, below. Each listed work pioneered a style, exemplified
  
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• ‘The Body Remembers’ Review: One Prospers, the Other Doesn’t

  28-11-2019 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Two indigenous women collide in an urgent, intimate drama about race, motherhood and domestic abuse.
  
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• Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s Thanksgiving Feast of Twists

  28-11-2019 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Servant,” on Apple TV Plus, offers his usual tasting menu of surprises, starting with an unusually quiet baby.
  
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• ‘Ximei’ Review: An AIDS Activist Fights Medical Injustice in China

  28-11-2019 13:30 via nytimes.com
  
  In taking the time to get to know his subjects, Andy Cohen paints a compelling portrait of those suffering from a public health crisis.
  
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• ‘White Snake’ Review: A Chinese Demon Slithers to the Screen

  28-11-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Love is the answer, even when Romeo is a snake-catcher. Luckily, he’s not great at his job.
  
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• ‘Temblores’ Review: Torn Between His Faith and His Sexuality

  28-11-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Jayro Bustamante’s drama is vividly imagined, but lacks depth.
  
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• ‘My Friend the Polish Girl’ Review: The Outsider

  28-11-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In this faux documentary, the relationship between an American filmmaker and her troubled immigrant subject takes on a darkly controlling hue.
  
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• ‘Melody Makers’ Review: Another Go-Round With the Old-School British Rockers

  28-11-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In a new documentary, Leslie Ann Coles explores the history of 1960s and ’70s rock ‘n’ roll through the eye of a British music magazine.
  
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• ‘Les Misérables’ Review: Injustice Still Stalks the Poor of Paris

  28-11-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In modern-day Montfermeil, the setting of Victor Hugo’s novel, the filmmaker Ladj Ly stages his own impassioned cry against oppression.
  
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• ‘Feast of the Epiphany’ Review: Farm to Table, but Not in That Order

  28-11-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  It’s a drama. It’s a documentary. It’s both, but this film, directed by three critics, is a perplexing amalgamation.
  
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• ‘Cavale’ Review: Riding in Cars With Girls on the Run

  28-11-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Virginie Gourmel’s drama, three teenage girls escape a psychiatric facility, however therapeutically or legally ill-advised.
  
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• ‘After Parkland’ Review: Gun Violence Reverberates Through Time

  28-11-2019 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A new documentary follows the friends and families of those died in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018.
  
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• Musicals of Various Shapes and Sizes Arrive on London Stages

  28-11-2019 12:13 via nytimes.com
  
  “Dear Evan Hansen” is the latest Broadway musical to open in the West End, along with the pop bonanza “& Juliet” and nearby, the quietly powerful “Ghost Quartet.”
  
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• Can Dance Make a More Just America? Donald Byrd Is Working on It

  28-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The choreographer’s commitment to dance as a catalyst for social change can be seen at a museum show in Seattle and in a new work for the Alvin Ailey company.
  
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• A Detroit Doctor Who Loves Art and Loathes Labels

  28-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Lorna Thomas has filled her home with African-American pieces; she believes their beauty transcends categorization.
  
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• A Comedy of Manners, and Multiple Homicide

  28-11-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A man snuffs out his aristocratic relatives one by one in the 1949 British film “Kind Hearts and Coronets,” now showing at Film Forum.
  
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• Late Night: It’s Not Turkey, It’s ‘Emotional Support Meat’

  28-11-2019 09:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Stephen Colbert says stranded travelers can have “a perfectly good Thanksgiving eating Hudson News almonds while charging your phone in the pet relief area.”
  
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• What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Servant’ and ‘The Godfather Part II’

  28-11-2019 07:00 via nytimes.com
  
  A psychological thriller series debuts on Apple TV Plus. And the first two “Godfather” movies air on IFC.
  
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• Marilyn Yalom, Feminist Author and Historian, Is Dead at 87

  28-11-2019 00:35 via nytimes.com
  
  In books about the history of wives, the history of the breast and other subjects, she examined how cultural forces led over time to feminist thinking.
  
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