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Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘LE SAMOURAÏ'

Starring Alain Delon, in a new 4k restoration, at NYC’s Film Forum, Mar. 29 - Apr. 11

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October 7th marked a rupture in time—a moment that made the before and after feel irreconcilable. Israel and the Jewish people now live in the fallout of that day. This collection presents reflections on grief and war by a new generation of Israeli writers, whose work will shape our imagination of the future.
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‘All right, Bernard,’ he said to the one, more brown than green. ‘All right, Grace,’ to the other, more green than brown. ‘Start fucking.’

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The Spy Who Loved Me

JULY 17, 2023

Male jealousy, Bond girls, and boozing with your Brah

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Lucian Freud’s Fat Lady Sings

MAY 21, 2019

Flesh, set free by a ‘despicable genius,’ or ensnared in the male gaze?

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A Conversation With Marjorie Perloff

APRIL 1, 2019

The fearlessly outspoken critic and Stanford titan on the contemporary poetry canon, the complexities of O.J. Simpson, and the non-Zen of John Cage

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The Kabbalah of Rothko

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

In the gap between transcendental and concrete experience, 48 years after the painter’s death

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Peter Saul Sabotages Everything, Including Himself

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

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Powerless in the Face of Beauty: Helena Rubinstein at the Jewish Museum

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

An exhibit about the cosmetics queen shows at what cost she taught women to power their way through beauty’s slow fade

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