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  1. He’s Music’s Mr. Adjacent, Connecting Minimalism to Disco

    Peter Gordon, who studied with Terry Riley, has always made music that is surprising but accessible. Now he’s starting his own record label.

     By Rob Tannenbaum

    Peter Gordon, a saxophonist, composer and bandleader who has been a mainstay of downtown music for decades, has started his own digital-only label. “It’s really about setting up artistic freedom," he said, “from creation to distribution.”
    CreditRafael Rios for The New York Times

  2. Kamasi Washington Wants to Remain Unstoppable

    Nine years after the release of the album that changed his life, the saxophonist is bringing new collaborators and new parts of himself into his work.

     By Hank Shteamer

    Kamasi Washington’s new album, “Fearless Movement,” includes high-profile guest spots from George Clinton and André 3000.
    CreditRicardo Nagaoka for The New York Times

  3. Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell on How ‘Anyone but You’ Beat the Rom-Com Odds

    Here are their takeaways after the film, debuting on Netflix, went from box office miss to runaway hit.

     By Ashley Spencer

    Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney in “Anyone but You.” The film was initially an also-ran at the box office.
    CreditSony Pictures

  4. ‘Patriots’ Review: What Happened to the Man Who Made Putin?

    Michael Stuhlbarg and Will Keen shine as a kingmaker and his creature. But in Peter Morgan’s cheesy-fun play, it’s not always clear which is which.

     By Jesse Green

    Will Keen as Vladimir Putin in “Patriots,” Peter Morgan’s wild story of makers switching places with the made, at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in Manhattan.
    CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times

  5. PEN America Cancels Literary Awards Ceremony Amid Gaza War Fallout

    The event had been set for April 29, but weeks of escalating criticism of the organization’s response to the war had led nearly half of the prize nominees to withdraw.

     By Jennifer Schuessler

    PEN America’s literary awards, sometimes promoted as “the Oscars of books,” was set to take place at Town Hall in Manhattan.
    CreditRebecca Smeyne for The New York Times

  1. Britain Memorializes a Queen, With Smiles and Bronze Corgis

    Sculptors have immortalized past British monarchs with imposing, stern-faced statues. For Queen Elizabeth II, they’re taking a different approach.

     By Alex Marshall

    CreditJoshua Bright for The New York Times

  2. Mdou Moctar’s Guitar Is a Screaming Siren Against Africa’s Colonial Legacy

    “Funeral for Justice,” the musician from Niger’s album due next month, amps up the urgency in his work: “I want you to know how serious this is.”

     By Ben Sisario

    Clockwise from left: Souleymane Ibrahim, Mdou Moctar, Ahmoudou Madassane and Mikey Coltun. Moctar has carved out a niche as a modern African guitar hero who calls attention to the struggles of the Tuareg people.
    CreditKadar Small for The New York Times

  3. Game Reviews: Vibrant African Myths and an Undersea Satire

    Precision is necessary in Tales of Kenzera: Zau, which brims with Bantu traditions. Through repetition, Harold Halibut demonstrates a subtle mastery of human nature.

     By Harold Goldberg

    In Tales of Kenzera: Zau, a young shaman explores seven labyrinthine territories to defeat giant beings in hopes that his father will be revived.
    CreditSurgent Studios

  4. Review: ‘Grenfell’ Listens to the Survivors of a Towering Inferno

    At St. Ann’s Warehouse, this documentary play about a London fire is blood-boiling and aggrieved.

     By Laura Collins-Hughes

    Dominique Tipper, center, in the play “Grenfell: in the words of survivors” at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.
    CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times
    Critic’s Pick

  5. For Sale: A Rare Klimt Portrait, Valued at $32 Million. But of Whom?

    The painting’s re-emergence after decades has come with a swirl of questions about its subject, one of three related teenage girls.

     By Scott Reyburn

    “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser” by Gustav Klimt.
    Creditim Kinsky

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  7. You Can Sit There. Really.

    At the Denver Art Museum, a furniture exhibition lets visitors experience museum fare as more than just pretty objects.

    By Ray Mark Rinaldi and Amanda Villarosa

     
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