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Use this room when you already know the kind of cultural terrain you want to inspect. For guided orientation, open the Field Map or begin with a pathway.

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Now showing — Debut · 5 works

  • Ready to Die Music · 1990s

    Biggie's debut. The greatest storytelling in hip-hop history from Bedford-Stuyvesant.

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  • Funeral Music · 2000s

    Grief transformed into communal catharsis. Indie rock's most anthemic debut.

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  • 200 Pounds Beauty Film · 2000s

    A plus-size phone-sex singer gets full-body surgery and debuts as a pop star. A guilty-pleasure K-drama that became a box-office phenomenon.

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  • Unknown Pleasures Music · 1970s

    Post-punk's defining debut. Isolation, dread, and the pulse of Manchester after dark.

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  • Lady Bird Film · 2010s

    Lady Bird is a 2017 American coming-of-age comedy drama film written and directed by Greta Gerwig in her solo directorial debut, starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Lois Smith. Set in Sacramento, California during the...

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