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The “most dangerous show on television” highlights our shredded social contract.

When collecting works of avant-garde art, Albert Barnes and Leo and Gertrude Stein seemed even madder than its makers.

In his memoir, The Patagonian Hare, the Shoah director’s life upstages his masterwork.

Emily Bernard’s Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance.

Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, Kirby Dick’s The Invisible War, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus

When it comes to the distant past, there’s a lot we don’t know about what occurred sexually.