Sunday, August 13, 2017

@9:55, 8/12/17

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1
Movies

Review: ‘The Only Living Boy in New York’ Rejects Dad’s Money but Not His Mistress

Marc Webb’s movie has an all-star cast (Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Nixon, Pierce Brosnan). Yet it lacks a proper story for them.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460890/

2
Arts

‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To?

Lin-Manuel Miranda and his collaborators largely chose not to include the real sounds of 18th-century America in their smash musical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpsuEcKW8ZE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Byl60CIN7A

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Arts

Vietnamese Art Has Never Been More Popular. But the Market Is Full of Fakes.

Prices have topped $1 million, but national museums and major auction houses have promoted works later said to be fraudulent.

"Vietnam’s nouveau riche, who have begun to pay high prices for local artists, are a prime target for unscrupulous traders. So are international buyers, whose faith that they are buying the genuine article is bolstered by the institutions that vouch for it."

Art dealers are often in it for the money.

4
Books

Marianne Moore’s Poetry, the Way She Intended It

Moore’s “New Collected Poems,” edited by Heather Cass White, does justice to one of the 20th century’s most singular poets.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/marianne-moore#tab-poems
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=13109

What we have is her product.

5
Books

A Novel of Desperate New Yorkers and Those Who Evict Them

The Israeli immigrants in Joshua Cohen’s “Moving Kings” spend their days displacing delinquent tenants.

I will leave this work in its depression.

6
T Magazine

Some Things T Editors Like Right Now

A by-no-means exhaustive list of great things we've stumbled upon.

Body or mind, we need help.

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Magazine

New Sentences: From Elin Hilderbrand’s ‘The Identicals’

The allures, the pleasures and the luxury-product name-dropping of a classic “beach read.”

A brain parasite.

8
Arts

Review: For ‘Get Shorty,’ an Amusing Epix Makeover

Chris O’Dowd is the thug who wants to make movies, and Ray Romano is the producer he turns to for help.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5761496/

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Arts

Classical Music in NYC This Week

Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera.

Your choice.

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Arts

Art and Museums in NYC This Week

Our guide to new art shows, and some that will be closing soon.

I could look at any.


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