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Arts & Culture
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Reviews, columns, and listings from The New Yorker.
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David Denby: “Chronicle,” “In Darkness” reviews.
8220;Chronicle” is a mildly experimental commercial film, and, for the most part, it’s loose-limbed fun. The picture takes off from “The Blair Witch Project” and other movies that use point-of-view techniques: we see footage shot by a character’s digital . . . (Subscription required.)
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Sasha Frere-Jones: Rick Ross and the life style of a boss.
A central motif in contemporary hip-hop is rapping about drug dealing by artists who may not actually sell narcotics. Among others, Jay-Z, Clipse, and Young Jeezy have rhymed about a past or present involvement in the trade on the street. It’s typically impossible to determine whether . . .
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Andrea K. Scott: Klara Lidén, at the Reena Spaulings gallery.
New York may be a concrete jungle, but it does have some soil and sky. Walter De Maria’s land-art knockout, “The New York Earth Room,” is two hundred and eighty thousand pounds of black dirt, maintained in a SoHo loft by the Dia Art Foundation . . . (Subscription required.)
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John Lahr: “Look Back in Anger,” a John Osborne revival.
John Osborne’s rowdy, shocking anger—first broadcast in his play “Look Back in Anger,” which is now in revival at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels—was his trademark, his gift, and his epitaph. “When the bell rings, I not only . . . (Subscription required.)
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Books: “American Egyptologist” by Jeffrey Abt, review.
Born in Illinois in 1865, James Henry Breasted turned an early interest in the ministry and a talent for languages into a remarkable career as America’s first formally trained Egyptologist. He specialized in the recording of inscriptions and wanted nothing less than “the recopying and republication of . . . (Subscription required.)
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Goings on About Town: The Theatre
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AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES
Rinde Eckert wrote and stars in this musical, about a composer with mental illness who tries to write an opera based on “ . . .
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Emily Nussbaum: “The Loving Story,” “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory,” on HBO.
HBO has two new documentaries, each dramatizing a miscarriage of justice. In January, the cable channel began airing Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory,” which was nominated for an Oscar for best documentary. It’s the capper to their nearly two-decade . . . (Subscription required.)
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Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks
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Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, and Stephen Lang join the New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast for an evening based on her new book, “What I Hate from A to Z.” (Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th St. 212-864-5400. Feb. 8 at 7.)
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Books: “Saladin” by Anne-Marie Eddé, review.
In 1187, the Muslim military ruler Saladin captured Jerusalem from the descendants of crusaders. The news electrified Europe, and England and France imposed a “Saladin tithe,” to fund the Third Crusade. Eddé’s book portrays Saladin amid a medieval world in motion: He dispatches sons and . . . (Subscription required.)
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Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
THE THEATRE
RESURRECTION
March 1
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s 1971 rock musical, “Jesus Christ Superstar,” is back, in a production that originated at last year’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Des McAnuff directs, at the Neil Simon. (212-239-6200.)
CLASSICAL MUSIC
BACK IN BLACK
March . . .
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