The Man Behind the Alien Mask Bolaji Badejo was a six-foot-10-inch Nigerian graphic-design student in London until a chance pub encounter made him Ridley Scott’s most elegant monster
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Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch A tartan noir for our times, and an excellent new British heist drama
Force of Nature An exhibition of still-life paintings by Rachel Ruysch goes up in Boston, honoring the Dutch artist whose fame in the 18th century rivaled that of Rembrandt
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