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    A $4 Thrift Store Find That Could Sell for $250,000

    A woman found a rare N.C. Wyeth illustration while rummaging though frames at a Savers in New Hampshire. Now the piece is expected to draw a significant sum at auction.

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  1. Critic’s Notebook
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    It’s been a fraught few weeks for hosts like Jimmy Fallon, the subject of a recent article criticizing his leadership. Others have received scorn for resuming production during the writers’ strike.
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    The Talk Shows Have Labor Pains

    The Hollywood strikes and the trouble at “The Tonight Show” are a reminder that hosts are not just your TV friends. They’re also people’s bosses.

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  2. The Charts
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    Olivia Rodrigo’s “Guts” opened with the equivalent of 302,000 sales in the United States.
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    Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Guts’ Is Her Second No. 1 Album

    The 20-year-old singer-songwriter’s follow-up to her 2021 debut, “Sour,” has the fourth-biggest opening of any LP this year so far.

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    Directors have been the stars of recent film festivals, including Ava DuVernay, who attended the premiere of “Origin” at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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    With Striking Actors Off-Limits, Directors Get Their Close-Ups

    Since striking movie stars are not allowed to promote studio films, filmmakers unexpectedly, and in some cases uneasily, have the spotlight to themselves.

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  4. Critic’s Notebook
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    Rachel Senott and Ayo Edebiri in “Bottoms.”
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    How the Bloody ‘Bottoms’ Reinvents the Coming-of-Age Fight

    The hero vs. bully template made famous in the ’80s gets subverted in this indie comedy, as well as in Hulu’s “Miguel Wants to Fight.”

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    The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Fla., dismissed a curator after questions were raised about the provenance of Greek artifacts in an exhibition, but some of his supporters at the museum defended him.
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    Provenance of a Museum’s Greek Exhibit Is Questioned, Fueling a Debate

    After a touring exhibition of antiquities from the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Fla., raised concerns at a Denver museum, a curator was dismissed.

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  1. Critic’s Notebook
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    On Friday evening, a demonstration against the soprano Anna Netrebko took place outside the Berlin State Opera, where she was appearing for the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine.
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    Anna Netrebko Returns to Berlin, Amid Protests and Some Boos

    The Russian star soprano appeared in her first staged opera in Germany since the Ukraine invasion, still under fire for her past support for President Vladimir V. Putin.

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    Guy Wildenstein arriving at a Paris courthouse in September 2016 to face tax fraud charges. He was acquitted the following year.
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    Wildenstein Art Dynasty Faces a Tax Trial in France — Again

    Guy Wildenstein, the billionaire art dealer, is accused of shielding a prized art collection from tax authorities to avoid a hefty inheritance bill. The case has dogged his family for more than a decade.

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    “We’re doing this play as written in 1961, but people are going to be so surprised at how hip it is and how much it stands up,” Leslie Odom Jr., with his cast mate Kara Young, said of their revival of “Purlie Victorious.”
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    ‘Purlie Victorious’: Ossie Davis’s ‘Gospel to Humanity’ Returns to Broadway

    The stars Leslie Odom Jr. and Kara Young and the director Kenny Leon discuss the revival, and why its satirical take on racism is still so timely.

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    Mary Beth Fisher as Peg in a production of the play “Swing State” at the Minetta Lane Theater.
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    ‘Swing State’ Review: All Is Not Well in Wisconsin

    Rebecca Gilman’s play, set in a rural farmhouse, sees an image of the decline of Americans’ interdependence in the death of wildflowers.

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    Sean Penn in the documentary “Superpower.”
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    ‘Superpower’ Review: Sean Penn Chronicles the War in Ukraine

    This documentary, which Penn directed with Aaron Kaufman, includes Penn’s interview with the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on the first day of Russia’s invasion.

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  7. Nonfiction

    The Man Who Wrote Everything

    In “Bartleby and Me,” Gay Talese recalls ink-stained colleagues, shares trade secrets and digs through the ruins of a truly explosive Manhattan marriage.

    By Alexandra Jacobs

     
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