Undeniably, proudly retro, Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories" allows listeners to enjoy once again the funk, pop and rock sounds of the mid-1970s.
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If you were to peek at the Hotel Chantelle rooftop Monday evening, you might not suspect that guests were toasting a movie about eco-terrorism.
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On Monday night, Glamour magazine pried several stylish scenesters—Zosia Mamet, Emma Roberts—from their smartphones and on to the stage for a night of monologues, "These Girls," at Joe's Pub.
Eighteen years after that fateful encounter on a train in Vienna, we're about to meet up with Celine and Jesse again. Then what?
Hans Richter's influence extended from key figures of experimental New American Cinema to Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Watercolor may be the most unforgiving art medium, but you'd never know it from the works by John Singer Sargent now on display at the Brooklyn Museum.
As Venice's Palazzo Grassi hosts its first exhibition devoted to a single artist, François Pinault open up about the rejuvenating power of contemporary art.
Long before Hong Kong, Dubai and Tokyo, there was Uruk, which arguably contained the origins of urban life as we still know it today.
In the themes, characters and moods they explore, three early operas that Richard Wagner later excluded from his canon are prophetic, to an often uncanny degree.
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'Now You See Me,' to be released May 31 by Summit, hopes to make movie magic without computer-generated special effects. Director Louis Leterrier hired magic consultants, including David Copperfield, to create and execute some of the more complicated illusions.
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The digital age is transforming the music industry, but an old standby is boosting record sales: the awards show.
"Star Trek: Into Darkness" grossed $70.6 million this weekend in the U.S. and Canada, falling short of Paramount Pictures' hopes. But the movie sold better overseas than the 2009 "Star Trek."
Its theme is one of the most common in literature, yet the poem possesses an uncommon power and more than a few quotable lines.
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Denmark emerged victorious Saturday in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Emmelie de Forest, 20, won with folksy ballad "Only Teardrops," which handily beat runners up, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.
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There is one piece of music above all others that inspires me in my work, writes Alexander McCall Smith: "Soave Sia Il Vento" from Mozart's "Così Fan Tutte."
Hours after the Cannes Film Festival premiered Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring," depicting a gang of Hollywood jewel thieves, a real-world heist lifted $1.4 million of jewelry from a hotel in Cannes, French prosecutors said.
A crop of young comics has embraced biting satire as a way to point out the absurdities of today's South Africa, from persistent gaps between rich whites and poor blacks to a president who has four first ladies.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition of furniture, toys, textiles, wallpaper and tableware, from mid-20th century modernist classics to present-day pieces, showcases contemporary and abstract approaches by designers from around the world.
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With 245 galleries, including 48 that have never shown in Asia, the event will rival Miami's iteration of the fair in size.
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The American-born artist has a show at London's David Zwirner gallery and will soon get a retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
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In this column: Edward Hopper drawings in New York, Chagall in Paris and ballet mementos in Washington, D.C.
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The godfather of reality shows and purveyor of freaks empathized with struggling people; he'd been there.
The volleyball-player-turned-author on being a "submissive" wife and not quite having it all.
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From apocalyptic demons to raunchy cops to Google interns, a new wave of comedies is rewriting the rules of Hollywood's high season.
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Paul Feig, the director behind "Bridesmaids," discusses his new movie "The Heat."
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Woody Allen is back in the U.S. with this dark comedy about a Park Avenue social climber (Cate Blanchett) forced to slum it with her blue-collar sister (Sally Hawkins) when she loses everything.
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Every summer has its competitive showdowns, when audiences feast and studio executives sweat.
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This summer will feature the usual array of superheroes, aliens, sequels, explosions, car chases and megastars, from Will Smith & Son in "After Earth" (May 31) to Hugh Jackman in "The Wolverine" (July 26).
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Movie cops will pair up, reluctantly at first, trade insults and ultimately realize they can't count on anyone but each other.
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A record five animated films will open this summer from major studios.
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A series of coming exhibits and sales are casting a new light on three generations of American painters.
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The English artist on today's art boom and tilting his Berlin retrospective toward the future.
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The best-selling author visits locations he never plans to write about, just to keep fans and readers guessing
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The art market is on fire right now. Christie's in New York made auction history Wednesday when it sold nearly half a billion dollars worth of postwar and contemporary art in less time than it takes to watch a feature film.
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The "Before Sunrise" actress talks about Paris, indie films and philosophy.
Wayne McGregor's new ballet, "Raven Girl," brings Audrey Niffenegger's fairy tale to the stage.
Kellie Pickler may not have won "American Idol" years ago, but she's a reality-show champion now.
It may lack the existential dread of a bona-fide sci-fi classic, but "Star Trek Into Darkness," is certainly one lavish pop confection.
If you should be lucky enough to see Shakespeare Theatre Company's "Coriolanus," featuring a towering performance by Patrick Page, you'll come away wondering why it doesn't get done regularly by every drama company in America.
With his first play in four years, "Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)," running at the Public Theater, the pioneering theater-maker talks about his fondness for disorientation and his unusual dramatic predilections.
A new PBS chronicle of Mr. Brooks's career is entertainment gold throughout, a work never in any danger of running low on charm or hilarity.
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Kristen Wiig hosts Saturday's show; the season wraps May 18.
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Writer-director Christopher Guest's new series for HBO, 'Family Tree' is full of humor but, even better, has a soft heart for the hapless.
The dance-music duo has seen wild interest in the new album "Random Access Memories" and its first single, "Get Lucky," after a less-is-more marketing campaign.
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The new album from Mr. "Don't Worry, Be Happy" focuses on Christian spirituals and recordings made by the artist's opera-singer dad.
Acclaimed chef and author, Gabrielle Hamilton, on the Lowline, a proposed park that will revitalize Manhattan's underground in more ways than one.
The cofounder of BET has parlayed her fortune into a consortium built on personal passions, including a stake in the NBA Wizards, luxury resorts owned by Salamander Hotels & Resorts and private jets.
The American designer moved from California to Paris a decade ago, bringing glamour and grunge to the fashion and furniture lines he launched there. An exclusive look inside his Paris home.
Michael Govan is the quiet powerhouse putting Los Angeles County Museum of Art on the map. With a new proposal for expansion, he hopes to radically redefine how the public engages with art—and shift the center of the art world west.
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Stephen King has no plans for a digital edition of his new book, "Joyland," hoping to get more people to shop for it in a physical bookstore.
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A successful Chinese restaurant chain featuring waiters who swing 10-foot-long noodles around tables tries to make the jump to the U.S.
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When the style icon died last year, she left behind a colossal stockpile of clothing and accessories, the true extent of which only she knew. Now her family is struggling to find a permanent home for what might very well be the world's largest, unruliest most thrillingly unexplored closet.
Experts who blend genealogy with travel can uncover your clan's history—and guide you through it, too.
A new round of discount leases on mainstream-brand plug-in cars such as the Nissan Leaf or Fiat 500e, combined with federal, state and local electric-vehicle incentives, could make a battery-electric car an extraordinarily economical way to get around for drivers.
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Underappreciated is the significant retooling that Miami underwent after assembling the powerful trinity of LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade, a sometimes painful process that fashioned the Heat into the offensive wrecking crew it is today.
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It would be wonderful if companies brought back deleted or massively altered features that the public enjoys. Here are some examples, from car doors to orange juice.
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Sales have slowed dramatically at many gourmet cupcake emporiums across the country. But cupcakes speak to what is best in all of us.
The annual On Stage at the Met gala, a black-tie affair that involves dinner on one of the ginormous sets of the Opera House.
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Also in this column: Events with Paul Auster, Naomi Wolf and Eric Drexler.
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What would it be like if other businesses operated on the same principle as airlines? Joe Queenan speculates.
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