Arts

Highlights

    1. Maurizio Cattelan’s Got a Gun Show

      From bananas as art to bullet-riddled panels: The Italian artist, in a rare in-person interview, tells why he turned his sardonic gaze on a violence-filled world.

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      The artist Maurizio Cattelan at Gagosian with a wall of his new work, “Sunday,” its gold-plated steel panels riddled with bullets from pistols, rifles and semiautomatic weapons at a New York firing range.
      The artist Maurizio Cattelan at Gagosian with a wall of his new work, “Sunday,” its gold-plated steel panels riddled with bullets from pistols, rifles and semiautomatic weapons at a New York firing range.
      CreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times
  1. One for the Ages: Sonia Delaunay’s Wearable Abstractions

    A steamer trunk worth of clothing and textiles by the French-Ukrainian artist reveals the sartorial origins of abstraction.

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    Sonia Delaunay’s “Robe Simultanée” (1913), a grand patchwork dress evokes the movements of her lively paintings and is a highlight of the Bard Graduate Center’s show “Sonia Delaunay: Living Art.”
    CreditBruce White, via Pracusa
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  2. ‘Terrestrial Verses’ Review: Sitting in the Bureaucrat’s Seat

    Ordinary Iranians face a maze of byzantine rules and small indignities in this series of gripping vignettes.

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    Sadaf Asgari in “Terrestrial Verses,” written and directed by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami. The movie unfolds as a series of vignettes.
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  3. A Wanderer, Ravel and Suzanne Farrell: Life Is Good at City Ballet

    The spring season at New York City Ballet opened with an all-Balanchine program and a vintage miniature from 1975: “Errante,” staged for a new generation.

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    Mira Nadon in George Balanchine’s “Errante,” which was staged by Suzanne Farrell, for whom the ballet was made.
    CreditErin Baiano
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  4. ‘Challengers’ Review: Game, Set, Love Matches

    Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist play friends, lovers and foes on and off the tennis court in Luca Guadagnino’s latest.

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    Two sides of a love triangle: Zendaya and Josh O’Connor in “Challengers.”
    CreditNiko Tavernise/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Amazon
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  5. How Postwar Paris Changed the Expat Artists

    An exhibition at the Grey Art Museum explores the fervid postwar scene in Paris, where Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell and others learned lessons America couldn’t teach them.

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    Shinkichi Tajiri’s “Lament for Lady (for Billie Holiday)” from 1953, with pieces from a trumpet and a circular photograph of the singer.
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  1. Anthony Roth Costanzo, Star Countertenor, to Lead Opera Philadelphia

    Costanzo will be a rare figure in classical music: an artist in his prime who is also working as an administrator.

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    Anthony Roth Costanzo at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.
    CreditMatthew Placek
  2. Review: Steve Carell as the 50-Year-Old Loser in a Comic ‘Uncle Vanya’

    Sleek, lucid, amusing, often beautiful, it’s Chekhov with everything, except the main thing.

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    Steve Carell is precise, natural and unimposing as Vanya in Heidi Schreck’s new translation of the Chekhov play at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Manhattan.
    CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times
  3. ‘Humane’ Review: An Ethical Crisis and a Dinner Party

    Caitlin Cronenberg’s debut feature is set in a dystopian world that’s alarmingly believable.

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    From left, Jay Baruchel, Peter Gallagher, Alanna Bale and Enrico Colantoni in “Humane.”
    CreditSteve Wilkie/IFC Films/Shudder
  4. ‘Boy Kills World’ Review: A Wide-Eyed Assassin

    Beefed up and bloodied, Bill Skarsgard goes mano a mano against disposable hordes in this dystopian action flick.

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    Bill Skarsgard stars as Boy, a saucer-eyed dynamo with an uninteresting back story who can neither hear nor talk, in “Boy Kills World.”
    CreditRoadside Attractions/Lionsgate
  5. Chicago Museum Says Investigators Have No Evidence Art Was Looted

    In a court filing, the Art Institute of Chicago fought Manhattan prosecutors’ efforts to seize an important Egon Schiele drawing, denying that the Nazis had stolen it.

     By Graham Bowley and

    “Russian War Prisoner,” a drawing by Egon Schiele from 1916 that is now held by the Art Institute of Chicago.
    CreditArt Institute of Chicago

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