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Merlin Recap: ‘The Witch’s Quickening’ (Season 2, Episode 11)
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The Newsroom Recap: I’ll Try to Fix You (Season 1, Episode 4)
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Twenty Twelve Recap: ‘Clarence House’ (Season 2, Episode 3)
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If We Nominated The Nominees: Emmys 2012
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Christopher Nolan: A Cinematic Retrospective Part One
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Key Largo, #67
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Breaking Bad Recap: ‘Live Free or Die’ (Season 5, Episode 1)
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Christopher Nolan: A Cinematic Retrospective Part Two
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So Bad, It’s Brilliant: Brand X with Russell Brand
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Art
Art Review: Ends of the Earth: Land Art To 1974, MOCA, Los Angeles
April 6, 2026Land artists were critical of the sanitizing effects of situating artwork in a gallery, and Fluxus...
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Merlin Recap: ‘The Fires of Idirsholas’ (Season 2, Episode 12)
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Music
Album Review: Dirty Projectors’ Swing Lo Magellan
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Music
EP Review: Angel Haze’s Reservation
April 6, 2026There are not an enormous number of 20-year-old, Native American, childhood-in-a-cult surviving, queer, female rapper/singers around...
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Twenty Twelve Recap: ‘Catastrophization’ (Season 2, Episode 5)
April 6, 2026There’s a brilliant sequence right off the bat when he tries to help the meeting go...
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Twenty Twelve Recap: ‘The Rapper’ (Season 2, Episode 4)
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Art
A Distant Mirror: Fashion and Identity in Colonial Latin America
April 5, 2026The scene depicted is officially entitled Garden Party on the Terrace of a Country Home, but...
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Merlin Recap: ‘The Last Dragonlord’ (Season 2, Episode 13)
April 4, 2026The longer this series goes on, the more likely it seems that someone might raise a...
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Dance
Body In-Sight: Action Drawings from the Dance Studio at the Museum of Performance and Design, San Francisco
April 4, 2026Aided by mirrors installed in their jewel box set, the gallery audience watched as they performed...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
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Happy Birthday, NC-17!
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Why Clash of the Titans might be “The Worst Movie Ever Made”
September 4, 2026Is Clash of the Titans one of the worst movies ever made? William Bibbiani makes an...
Movies
The Great Music Videos #2: “Thriller” (dir. John Landis)
August 31, 2026Jackson as a zombie in “Thriller” William Bibbiani noted in the Great Music Videos #1 post...
Art
How to Get Your Work in the Louvre? Hang it up Yourself!
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Art
Running Fence: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Masterpiece Revisited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 7, 2026While one might be tempted to attribute the project's failure to grandiose ambition, the success of...
Art
Iran’s Cultural Heritage Under Threat
August 31, 2026In addition to depriving Iranians of their cultural property, a decision to turn over the artifacts...
Art
The Life and Work of Eadweard Muybridge
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Movies
Movie Review: The Lovely Bones
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Television
The Big Easy: Great movies and TV set in New Orleans
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
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