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    1. Rise of the Ronin Sends Players Into a Chaotic Japan

      Team Ninja showed its talent for finely tuned combat in games like Ninja Gaiden and Nioh. Its first open-world game presents new design challenges that are not always met.

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      Rise of the Ronin has players explore Japan as it opened its doors to Western influence in the mid-19th century.
      Rise of the Ronin has players explore Japan as it opened its doors to Western influence in the mid-19th century.
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  1. The Team Effort Behind One of Classical Music’s Greatest Hits

    Gustav Holst composed “The Planets” with crucial help from others. Firsthand accounts and the score reflect how collaborative its creation was.

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    The New York Philharmonic, conducted by Bramwell Tovey, performing Holst’s “The Planets” in 2013.
    CreditRuby Washington/The New York Times
  2. At Tiffany’s Flagship, Luxe Art Helps Sell the Jewels

    Turrell. Hirst. Basquiat: This 10-story palace is filled with famous names, for a heady fusion of relevant, and discomfiting, contemporary art and retailing.

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    Looming next to vitrines filled with engagement rings are Daniel Arsham’s “Bronze Eroded Venus of Arles” (2022), at left, and Anish Kapoor’s “Random Triangle Mirror” (2016) at right, on the third floor of the Tiffany flagship store on Fifth Avenue.
    CreditAnish Kapoor. All Rights Reserved, DACS, London/ARS, NY; Photo by Jeenah Moon for The New York Times
    Art Review
  3. Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ Is Here, and It’s Much More Than Country

    The superstar’s new LP is a 27-track tour of popular music with a Beatles cover, cameos by Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton, and features from Miley Cyrus and Post Malone.

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    Beyoncé wrote on Instagram that the album was “over five years in the making,” and that “it was born out of an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed.”
    CreditJames Devaney/GC Images, via Getty Images
  4. Review: In ‘Reality Show,’ Jerrod Carmichael Is Out and Open

    Have you heard the one about the comedian who tried to live truthfully?

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    Jerrod Carmichael is framing his “Reality Show” as an experiment in radical openness.
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  5. Logan Lerman Honors Two Families in ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’

    In this Hulu adaptation of a Holocaust novel, Lerman plays a character inspired by two different grandfathers: the author’s and his own.

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    CreditChantal Anderson for The New York Times
  1. ‘La Chimera’ Review: A Treasure Trove

    In her latest dreamy movie, the Italian director Alice Rohrwacher follows a tomb raider, played by Josh O’Connor, who’s pining for a lost love.

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    Josh O’Connor, center, in “La Chimera,” the latest from Alice Rohrwacher, who has quickly become a must-see filmmaker on the international circuit.
    CreditNeon
    Critic’s pick
  2. ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ Review: Running Out of Steam

    The latest in the Warner Bros. Monsterverse franchise shows signs of an anemic imagination.

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    The two main attractions in “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.”
    CreditWarner Bros.
  3. The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Rage and Grief

    Käthe Kollwitz’s fierce belief in social justice and her indelible images made her one of Germany’s best printmakers. A dazzling MoMA show reminds us why.

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    In Käthe Kollwitz’s “Woman with Dead Child,” in a Museum of Modern Art survey, two figures become one in the mother’s tight embrace. Etching with drypoint, sandpaper; artist’s proof.
    CreditThe Trustees of the British Museum
    Critic’s Pick
  4. When Richard Serra’s Steel Curves Became a Memorial

    The sculptor had a breakthrough in the late 1990s with his torqued metal rings. Then the attack on the World Trade Center, which Serra witnessed, gave them a sudden new significance.

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    Three of Richard Serra’s “Torqued Ellipses,” from 1996-97, now on permanent view at the Dia Art Foundation in Beacon, N.Y. The curving steel plates have oxidized since their debut from vermilion to dark brown.
    CreditRichard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Photo by Victor Llorente for The New York Times
    Critic’s Notebook
  5. When Larry Met Jean-Michel

    A new exhibition tells the dealer’s story of how two rising stars, Larry Gagosian and Jean-Michel Basquiat, worked together in Los Angeles in the ’80s.

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    Larry Gagosian and Jean-Michel Basquiat, around 1982, when the artist visited Los Angeles and produced an enormous amount of paintings.
    CreditGagosian Beverly Hills
    Critic’s Notebook

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