World
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Philip Pearlstein, Whose Realist Nudes Revived Portraiture, Dies at 98
His harshly lit studies of life models represented a major departure in American painting and shocked modernist critics.
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Adrienne Mancia, Influential Film Curator, Dies at 95
Her choices for exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Academy of Music gave foreign directors and…
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Dino Danelli, Whose Drums Drove the Rascals, Is Dead at 78
His percussion virtuosity was a key to the band’s many hits of the late 1960s, including the chart-topping “Good Lovin’,”…
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Milton Viorst, Writer Who Chronicled the Middle East, Dies at 92
He wrote that the Six-Day War was a necessary prelude to peace, but he also warned that the conflict would…
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Putin Makes Rare Visit to Ukraine War Headquarters
The meetings with his top brass seemed to signal a shift from his largely hands-off public posture to one conveying…
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Man Admits Fatally Beating Chinese Immigrant and Faces 20-Year Term
GuiYing Ma and her husband immigrated to New York seeking work and adventure. She died after a vicious sidewalk attack.
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They Dispense Street Justice, One Defaced License Plate at a Time
Scofflaws are tampering with tags, costing New York agencies more than $100 million a year in missed payments and fines.…
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How Dapper Dan, Harlem Haberdasher, Spends His Sundays
The style icon is a news obsessive, a reader, a salsa dancer and a churchgoer (he skips the sermons, though).
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Rikers Has a Deadly Contraband Problem. Are Cargo Pants to Blame?
The notorious jail had its deadliest year in a decade, while the flow of narcotics and weapons into the complex…
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Ukrainians Focus on Resilience a Day After Major Russian Strikes
The mayor of Kyiv said that water was back on and that the city’s subway service had resumed. President Volodymyr…