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William Agee, a curator and teacher whose exhibitions and writings expanded the view of American Modernism, has died at 86. https://t.co/nCaFjvIQNp

Which Sundance stars could go the distance to next year’s Oscars? @kylebuchanan shares his take on the festival’s biggest breakouts. https://t.co/V4lr7qozkB

In his new show, the magician Asi Wind reveals himself to be a master at the top of his game, our critic writes performing fluidly and with obvious pleasure. https://t.co/0CSuooMQAM

Catch these eight titles before they leave Netflix in the United States in February, including a classic comedy special from Zach Galifianakis. https://t.co/C7BiRQ51Fi

Picasso’s striped Breton shirt? An Edward Hopper fedora? Yayoi Kusama’s high tops? Our writer spots the museum merchandise that encourages us to become avatars for the famous artists we love. https://t.co/MlbDddpVwl

What’s on TV this week: Chuck D hosts a documentary about hip-hop on PBS, and a new science-fiction series debuts on Syfy. https://t.co/iNdM3eufHP

SZA’s “SOS” is a steady streaming hit and a chart blockbuster, spending its first seven weeks of release at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. https://t.co/aKjfJkivNj

Gregory Allen Howard, who wrote the scripts of several Hollywood movies about inspiring episodes in Black history, most famously “Remember the Titans,” died on Friday. https://t.co/v3ruU1brBW

Ann-Helén Laestadius grew up north of the Arctic Circle. Her mother was Sámi, part of a European Indigenous group. Her novel, “Stolen,” a best seller in Sweden, reflects a community threatened by climate change, racism and violence. https://t.co/kJdmVhsfzx

George Zimbel, a genial photographer who had empathy for ordinary people, but whose two best-known subjects were megastars, Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy, has died at 93. https://t.co/W1c2TdDzrD

The “Squid Game” actor Oh Young-soo will go on trial this week over charges that he inappropriately touched a South Korean woman in 2017. https://t.co/5ks4uE67oY

Annie Wersching, best known for playing the Borg Queen on “Star Trek: Picard,” has died. She was 45. https://t.co/BwCQ4Ak5uB

This week’s episode of “The Last of Us, starring Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett, played like a beautiful short film about companionship, in turns heartwarming and heartbreaking. https://t.co/fj2yJN1TSc

Alfred Leslie, a second-generation Abstract Expressionist and filmmaker who lead a revival of figurative painting, has died at 95. https://t.co/cuTPb2vfVO

Renée Fleming at the Metropolitan Opera, the pianist Paul Wee playing Beethoven and Mozart, and other highlights: Here are 5 classical music albums to listen to right now. https://t.co/v9Twks0oAt

Yuja Wang did the unheard-of by performing all five of Rachmaninoff’s works for piano and orchestra at Carnegie Hall. And yes, there was an encore. https://t.co/ybHw7F6n86

Tom Verlaine’s songs reveled in the open-ended: in improvisations that could spiral out toward free jazz and in verbal enigmas and paradoxes. Hear 15 of his greatest. https://t.co/oNeRz8VqY2

Much of George Zimbel’s work was photographing ordinary people. But he was on location when Marilyn Monroe was filming “The Seven Year Itch” and at a ticker-tape parade for Senator John F. Kennedy during the 1960 presidential campaign. https://t.co/T8zVdeQDZe

The new Apple TV+ dramedy, "Shrinking," stars Jason Segel but the scenes revolving around Harrison Ford, "America's sexiest uncle," are the best ones, according to Mike Hale. https://t.co/54Ab2kTNZP

"Surreal, sophisticated and sometimes sickening, 'Infinity Pool' suggests that while the elder Cronenberg might be fixated on the disintegration of our bodies, his son is more concerned with the destruction of our souls," writes Jeannette Catsoulis. https://t.co/7QiPXnh1ba

In Berlin, the vivid characters and the infectious melodies of the musical “La Cage aux Folles” prove to be remarkably durable in Barrie Kosky’s madcap production at Komische Oper. https://t.co/XJeY7gNRrj

Kronos Quartet offered a creative snapshot of a global pandemic at Carnegie Hall on Friday. Nine works by a diverse group of composers ranged from exuberant joyfulness to existential questioning. https://t.co/elOdw23MLO

Sylvia Syms, a British actress whose many roles included Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Queen Mother, has died at 89. https://t.co/oiMS6eVmND

The pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is appearing at Carnegie Hall with Dvorak’s “Poetic Tone Pictures,” a rarity being performed there for the first time. https://t.co/FE7VSOfgHU

For decades a somber painting by Picasso of a woman ironing clothes has been a fixture at the Guggenheim Museum. Now it is the subject of a lawsuit filed by the heirs of a Jewish man who sold it soon after fleeing Nazi Germany. https://t.co/G8orvutHc9

Kyra Nichols, a former principal, returns to New York City Ballet to coach. What does she know? How a dancer can replace force with something more free. https://t.co/oOM56qKlRV

Ray Cordeiro, a late-night Hong Kong disc jockey who spun records for more than 70 years, has died at 98. Known to fans as Uncle Ray, he worked until he was 96. https://t.co/pJrL8OMFSq

Melanie Chisholm, of The Spice Girls, teamed up with the choreographer Jules Cunningham on the dance piece “How Did We Get Here?,” which features long-held balances, elongated lines, and abrupt switches of direction and dynamic. https://t.co/e4W7oNt7fp

The French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love uses her personal experiences to inspire her films. Her latest film, “One Fine Morning," captures the recent period when she was caring for her ailing father, Ole Hansen-Love, while beginning a new romance. https://t.co/8WtKQT9QKD

Do you have a civic duty to watch or a moral obligation not to? Our critic @aoscott looks at the deeper implications of the Memphis police video. https://t.co/sF26tWzYeH

The Obie Awards, which honor Off and Off Off Broadway theater, on Feb. 27 will hold a first in-person ceremony since 2019. It will focus on celebration & performance; award recipients will be notified in advance and most names and acceptances pre-released. https://t.co/zQEr0ysPXO

NEW: The @nypl has acquired the papers of Joan Didion & John Gregory Dunne. Letters, notes, drafts, photos, screenplays, datebooks, dinner-party menus, even a “homemade cookbook” (!) or two. (Didion was “very committed to Chantilly cream”) My story: https://t.co/FQXBNqxmEW?

“I’ve been watching the Oscars for more than 30 years now, and every single year, I would imagine myself being on the red carpet,” Ke Huy Quan told me today. “When I stepped away from acting for so long, I didn’t think that dream would ever come back." https://t.co/J7eeLbjmxE

Live Updates: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing today about the state of competition the ticketing industry, where Ticketmaster is the dominant force but has come under scrutiny since it botched sales for Taylor Swift’s latest tour. https://t.co/bAiE0bbXoX

I spoke to Angela Bassett about "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" in November. (Contains some spoilers) https://t.co/rRGEaooNVK

Broadway news: A stage adaptation of "Room," the best-selling novel previously turned into an acclaimed film, will begin performances in April, with @adriennelwarren starring. It has previously been staged in England, Scotland, Ireland and Canada. https://t.co/E8KKZvze2h

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