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  In the 1980s, the photographer Jamel Shabazz would walk the streets of his native New York with his camera, photographing young Black and brown people. He took their pictures, arranged to share a copy with them, and kept it moving. “I don’t want anything in return,” he recalls telling his subjects. “Just going to record this moment in time ’cause I see your greatness.” Twenty years later, these images of carefree optimism feel distant, Shabazz says.

  The Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů’s work—the focus of this summer’s Bard Music Festival, at Bard College—is marked by curt themes, darting rhythms, tangy harmonies, and glittering textures.     Bohuslav Martinů Is One of Music’s Great Chameleons. The Czech composer energetically explored form after form.

 

  The Italian photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin left behind an archive of more than two million stills, constituting one large portrait of Italy’s postwar era. “I’m not an artist,” he liked to say. “I’m just a witness of what I see.”

 

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  People experience genuine pleasure—a rush of dopamine—when processing information that supports their beliefs. “It feels good to ‘stick to our guns’ even if we are wrong,” researchers say.

  In 2019, the telecommunications magnate Patrick Drahi bought Sotheby’s. Since then, the auction house has assumed a new, unstable identity: as both the billionaire’s indulgence and the subject of his latest corporate experiment.

  In 1971, Marvin Gaye released what many consider to be his masterwork, “What’s Going On?” By November of the same year, Sly Stone, who died this week, seemed to pose an answer: “There’s a Riot Goin’ On.” The idealism of the 60s was dead, and with its death came the harsh realities of the new moment: political assassinations, expanded police violence, a shifting civil-rights movement, and a sense of disillusionment that seemed to haunt Stone as he searched for a purpose beyond hippie-culture stardom. The lyrics on “Riot” were not necessarily pessimistic, and they were not all explicitly political, but they were tinged with a kind of cynicism that seemed to be overtaking the country. “It would be easy to draw parallels with our current political moment,” Hanif Abdurraqib writes. “It would be easy to tell you that I had the N.B.A. Finals on my television the other night but hardly watched the first half because I was frantically scrolling the internet, trying to keep track of the re...

  In Oliver Hermanus’s period drama, “The History of Sound,” Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor play music lovers whose passions prove less tempestuous than isolating. In the film, set during and after the First World War, passion is an intensely private thing, and in more ways than you might expect. “There’s little sense of hesitation, danger, or risk, which is initially refreshing; you sense that Hermanus wants his characters to live and love, at least in the moment, without fear,” writes Justin Chang. “But the romance also proceeds with a curious lack of sensual discovery and enveloping excitement—and certainly none of the fireworks that attended O’Connor’s work in ‘God’s Own Country’ or Mescal’s performance in ‘All of Us Strangers,’ to name two gay romances of wrenching, lingering emotional power.” Read Chang’s review of the film.