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  1. How Big Is Taylor Swift?

    As big as the Beatles? Michael Jackson? Beyoncé? We crunched the numbers.

     By Joe CoscarelliCourtney Cox and

    CreditCassidy Araiza for The New York Times; Getty Images; Associated Press
    1. At Cannes, Lily Gladstone Scores a Familiar Seat

      The juror found herself at the center of the Kering Women in Motion dinner, a year after she was a little-known guest for “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

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      Lily Gladstone returned to the Kering Women in Motion dinner as a juror on Sunday.
      Lily Gladstone returned to the Kering Women in Motion dinner as a juror on Sunday.
      CreditSarah Meyssonnier/Reuters
  1. ‘Stax: Soulsville, U.S.A.’ Review: Looking for a Little Respect

    An HBO series tells the triumphant, tragic story of the record label Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes and the Staple Singers called home.

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    “Stax: Soulsville, U.S.A.,” on HBO, looks back at the influential record label that turned out hits and minted stars like Isaac Hayes, seen here at the 1972 Wattstax concert in Los Angeles.
    CreditHoward Bingham
  2. Michael Emerson Still Reigns as TV’s King of Creepy

    The actor has played unsettling men on shows like “Lost” and “Fallout.” In the new season of “Evil,” he might be raising the Antichrist.

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    Michael Emerson plays a demonic emissary in “Evil.” Acting with him is like playing a game of “high-level chess,” said his co-star Katja Herbers, right.
    CreditElizabeth Fisher/Paramount+
  3. What We Lose When ChatGPT Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson

    OpenAI has good reason to aim for a bot voice à la the one in “Her.” But that film was about relationships. What does this real-world turn say about us?

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    Samantha, the A.I. assistant with whom the sad-sack divorcé Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) fell in love in “Her,” felt like a futuristic revelation in 2013.
    CreditWarner Bros. Pictures
    Critic’s Notebook
  4. She Wants to Make San Francisco Ballet an ‘Arrow to the Future’

    Tamara Rojo, the company’s new artistic director, has a vision of ballet as for the people — all the people — with dances that reflect our world.

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    Tamara Rojo of the San Francisco Ballet, founded in 1933. “People have invested in this company at whatever level, for decades and through generations,” she said.
    CreditAubrey Trinnaman for The New York Times
  5. The Painstaking Quest to Portray a Tortured Warrior

    For the hyperrealistic visuals in the video game Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, the studio traveled to Iceland, took thousands of photos and spent months on motion capture.

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    The protagonist of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II suffers from psychosis, which manifests itself through chattering internal voices and wraithlike enemies.
    CreditNinja Theory
  1. The (Very Brief) Return of Gastr del Sol

    In the ’90s, the duo of Jim O’Rourke and David Grubbs made quiet, intricate music amid a loud rock underground. A new compilation brought them back together.

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    Gastr del Sol playing a 1996 show at the Jabberjaw in Los Angeles.
    CreditBenjamin Clark
  2. Sean Combs Apologizes After Video Shows Him Assaulting Cassie

    After footage surfaced of Mr. Combs striking, kicking and dragging Cassie, he apologized on social media, saying that “my behavior on that video is inexcusable.”

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    Sean Combs in 2022.
    CreditJordan Strauss/Invision, via Associated Press
  3. Review: ‘Nobody Cares’ About Laura Benanti, but They Let Her Entertain Them

    While poking fun at her own agreeable malleability, Benanti flexes her talents in a show that will be available on Audible, without the physical dimension.

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    Laura Benanti in her play “Nobody Cares” at the Minetta Lane Theater.
    CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times
    Critic’s Pick
  4. 5 Takeaways From the Spring Art Auctions

    Results from a week of sales tell a story of a masterpiece market come down to earth, the cooling of young art stars — and a hack that finally ended Sunday.

     By Julia Halperin and

    On Tuesday, despite a hacked website, Georgina Hilton of Christie’s sold the top lot of the evening, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “The Italian Version of Popeye Has no Pork in his Diet,” for more than $32 million at the 21st Century Evening Sale.
    Creditvia Christie's
  5. Kehinde Wiley Denies Accusation of Sexual Assault by Artist

    After Joseph Awuah-Darko accused Mr. Wiley of sexually assaulting him in Ghana, Mr. Wiley denied the claims, calling them “not true and an affront to all victims of sexual abuse.”

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    Kehinde Wiley is one of the best known American portrait painters.
    CreditJulien Mignot for The New York Times

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