Arts

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: Does Our Future Depend On More Dialogue?

8:39am October 27, 2017

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks says we glorify the individual at the expense of the group. Sacks believes our future depends on returning to our communities — and the key to getting there is dialogue.

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A detail from the cover of Ken Greenhall's Childgrave, painted by Lisa Falkenstern.

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These 'Paperbacks From Hell' Reflect The Real-Life Angst Of The 1970s

5:44pm October 26, 2017

by Kelly McEvers

Author Grady Hendrix's new book is a celebration of the lurid horror paperbacks of the 1970s, books that gave already frightened readers an endless supply of things to fear, from jellyfish to clowns.

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Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne and their daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne, are the subject of the documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold.

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'Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold' Plays It As It Lays

5:10pm October 26, 2017

by Andrew Lapin

The documentary, directed by Didion's nephew, the actor Griffin Dunne, isn't particularly revelatory, but it captures the writer's dazzling life and persona — and her struggles with grief.

Wreck Room: Margaret (Julianne Moore) and Gardner (Matt Damon) experience an Eisenhower-era home invasion in Suburbicon.

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'Suburbicon': Two Storylines, Separate But Unequal

5:00pm October 26, 2017

by Chris Klimek

This film, directed and co-written by George Clooney, "is a solid 95-minute noir caper artlessly bolted to a 10-minute social drama, and a shockingly tone-deaf one at that."

Shantay, Ewe Stay: John (Josh O'Connor) and Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu) look sheepish in God's Own Country.

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Pent-Up Passions Go Free Range In 'God's Own Country'

5:00pm October 26, 2017

by Ella Taylor

Two male farmhands in Yorkshire find each other in this "full-throttle, grand love story and ... coming-of-age parable" from first-time writer-director Francis Lee.

Distressed Swede: In the mordantly satirical The Square, Christian (Claes Bang) curates a contemporary art museum in Sweden.

Arts

'The Square' Is Edgy

5:00pm October 26, 2017

by Mark Jenkins

Swedish writer-director Ruben Östlund ruthlessly roasts the art community in this loose, leisurely paced series of deadpan vignettes.

Claes Bang plays Christian, director of a contemporary art museum, in The Square.

Arts

In 'The Square,' A Scandinavian Satire Of A Modern Art Museum

4:43pm October 26, 2017

by Bilal Qureshi

The Swedish movie which won top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival skewers the cultural elite — the same kind of people who attend Cannes.

Arts

'The Square' Skillfully Skewers The Pretensions Of The Modern Art World

4:23pm October 26, 2017

by Justin Chang

Ruben Östlund's latest film is a satire set at a contemporary art museum in Stockholm. Reviewer Justin Chang says The Square invites viewers to laugh, empathize and recoil — sometimes all at once.

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Phillips Collection curator Eliza Rathbone says Renoir was "at the height of his powers" when in he painted Luncheon of the Boating Party.

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Guess Who Renoir Was In Love With In 'Luncheon Of The Boating Party'

10:34am October 26, 2017

by Susan Stamberg

Aline Charigot hadn't known Renoir long when she posed for his masterpiece, but he'd already fallen for her. Curator Eliza Rathbone says, "That's why she has the role that she does in the painting."

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Watch Out: This Halloween, Horror Is Back

9:53am October 26, 2017

by Adhiti Bandlamudi

People are turning to creepy clown faces and bloody ski masks this year, inspired by this year's great horror movies and to escape the real world.