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  1. Kara Walker Is No One’s Robot

    At SFMOMA, the artist enacts a parable about trauma and healing in Black life — and makes her first foray into robotics. “I went down a little sci-fi rabbit hole the last couple years working on this piece.”

     By Hilarie M. Sheets

    CreditMarissa Leshnov for The New York Times

  1. Osgemeos Rocked Brazil. Can the Graffiti Twins Take New York?

    Their street murals, monumental sculptures, intricate drawings and vivid paintings pop up at Lehmann Maupin gallery on the eve of their Hirshhorn debut.

     By Jill Langlois

    The identical twins Otávio and Gustavo Pandolfo, a.k.a. Osgemeos, with a graffiti of themselves inside their studio in São Paulo. Their painted yellow skin signals their membership in a fantastical world known as Tritez, part of their “origin story.”
    CreditGabriela Portilho for The New York Times

  2. ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Review: Silent Beginnings

    The chills are more effective than the thrills in this prequel to the “A Quiet Place” franchise.

     By Elisabeth Vincentelli

    Lupita Nyong’o, right, with Joseph Quinn in “A Quiet Place: Day One.”
    CreditGareth Gatrell/Paramount Pictures

  3. Killer Mike Won’t Face Charges After Grammys Arrest

    The rapper, who got into an altercation with a security guard after winning three Grammys, has completed community service.

     By Reggie Ugwu

    Killer Mike won Grammys for his album “Michael” and the song “Scientists & Engineers.”
    CreditDavid Swanson/Reuters

  4. ‘Last Summer’ Review: A Shocking Affair to Remember

    Few directors get as deeply under the skin as Catherine Breillat, a longtime provocateur who tests the limits of what the world thinks women should do and say and be.

     By Manohla Dargis

    Samuel Kircher, left, and Léa Drucker in “Last Summer.”
    CreditSideshow/Janus Films
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  5. Second Stage Becomes First Broadway Nonprofit in Decades to Name New Leader

    The organization, which won this year’s best play revival Tony Award for “Appropriate,” has chosen Evan Cabnet as its next artistic director.

     By Michael Paulson

    “My commitment is, and has always been, to new work, and contemporary American work, and new voices,” Evan Cabnet said.
    CreditEvan Zimmerman

  1. Betty Boop Time Travels to New York, and Broadway, Next Spring

    “BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical” had a run in Chicago last year. It is slated to open at a Shubert theater in April.

     By Michael Paulson

    Jasmine Amy Rogers as Betty Boop in the Chicago production of the show at CIBC Theater.
    CreditMatthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman

  2. Amsterdam Museum to Return a Matisse Work Sold Under Duress in World War II

    The painting, “Odalisque,” was sold to the Stedelijk Museum in the early 1940s by a German-Jewish family desperate to escape the Nazis.

     By Nina Siegal

    Matisse’s “Odalisque”
    CreditSuccession Henri Matisse, via Pictoright Amsterdam/Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

  3. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now

    A new recording from the conductor Klaus Mäkelä, a concerto-like work by Vijay Iyer and a fresh take on Charles Ives are among the highlights.

     

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  4. Gena Rowlands Has Alzheimer’s Decades After ‘The Notebook’

    Rowlands, 94, played an older woman with dementia in the 2004 movie directed by her son, Nick Cassavetes.

     By Reggie Ugwu

    Gena Rowlands was nominated for two Oscars early in her career, for “A Woman Under the Influence” and “Gloria.”
    CreditChris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press

  5. South by Southwest Cuts Ties to Army After Gaza-Inspired Boycott

    The festival said it would no longer be sponsored by the U.S. Army or weapons manufacturers, which had prompted artists to withdraw from this year’s gathering.

     By Marc Tracy

    The South by Southwest festival announced that it would no longer be supported by the U.S. Army and defense contractors.
    CreditSmith Collection/Gado, via Getty Images

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