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FILM

Review: ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ is Not Really a Mummy Movie, But Blumhouse Couldn’t Care Less

You may not know who the name-checked auteur is, but everything else in this ersatz sarcophagus saga is as familiar as horror-flick puke.

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SEVEN DECADES

When the Pentagon Screened ‘The Battle of Algiers’

In 2003, the U.S. was mired in the Iraq War and the Voice revisited a film that has long been a cautionary tale for empires everywhere.

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SEVEN DECADES

Afrika Bambaataa Gave Voice to Music ‘Never Heard Before’

More than four decades ago, the Bronx DJ was already a hip hop legend, known as the “Master of Records.”

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VOICE CHOICE

‘Cinematic Immunity’ Covers the Artistry – and Insane Derring-Do – of Location Shooting in NYC

A new oral history goes behind the scenes and under the streets.

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VOICE CHOICE

Legendary Tattoo Artist Jonathan Shaw Brings 40 Years of Counterculture to Auction

Flash sheets from old-master tattoo artists and colorful ephemera trace the history of a skin-deep art form.

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VOICE CHOICE

Julia Kent’s Looping Cello Soundscapes Will Envelop the Met’s ‘Ecologies of Painting’

The cellist and composer will perform in the European paintings galleries, responding to an exhibition exploring the relationship between human history and natural ecosystems.

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VOICE CHOICE

Nell Blaine: A Painter Who Worked Against the Grain

A fresh exhibition features the first art director of the Village Voice, who overcame debilitating disease to create vibrant, New York School-ed realism. 

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FILM

‘Two Prosecutors’ Finds Flesh Crushed and Lives Smothered Under Stalin’s Terminal Bureaucracy

Ukrainian writer/director Sergei Loznitsa’s life's work is calling out fascists, past and present.

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THE FRONT

‘The Second Printing Revolution’ Shows Us That Information Has Never Been Free

The Grolier Club looks at the ways printing technology exploded in the 1800s, mirroring our own era of information overload.

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CULTURE

Top of the POPS: The Whitney Biennial Does Its Best to Catch the Zeitgeist in a Bottle

The latest iteration of the every-other-year visual hoedown is dour, but leavened with some serious wit.

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