Art and Culture

Read more Featured Stories like this in The Strad Playing Hub ’I haven’t had a proper week off in ten years.’ When my friend said those words, I honestly thought I had misheard her. Ten years? It seemed impossible. I asked why,…
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Rike Concert Hall in Tbilisi, designed by Rome-based practice Studio Fuksas, was built, and nearly completed, between 2010 and 2012 at a cost of €40 million. Work stopped with a change in the national government; the project was…
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A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling in favor of pop artist Jeff Koons in a copyright dispute with a sculptor who ​had accused Koons of using his sculpture without permission in a ‌1989 series of artworks. – Reuters…
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It’s three weeks until Mississippi’s standardized test season begins, and Candace Hamberlin is feeling the pressure.Evidence of what’s at stake hangs all around Jefferson County Middle School, where Hamberlin is in her first year…
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It’s three weeks until Mississippi’s standardized test season begins, and Candace Hamberlin is feeling the pressure.Evidence of what’s at stake hangs all around Jefferson County Middle School, where Hamberlin is in her first year…
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For as long as he has been a film-maker, there is one story Honey Trehan has wanted to tell above all.Growing up in the Indian state of Punjab, Trehan saw firsthand the devastation wrought by police who carried out tens of thousands of…
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The letter, now up for auction, describes good weather and bustling activity as the “Titanic” prepared to set off across the Atlantic Ocean…
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The question is not whether the technological revolution already underway will abolish hierarchy. It will not. The question is different: what will the new currency of rank be, and will it better recognise ability, responsibility, and…
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For some, this elevated focus on philanthropy is not so much a voluntary strategic choice, but rather a response to their existing funders encouraging them to diversify their revenue streams and achieve what they see as a more…
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Rebuilding the school in line with Mackintosh’s designs would cost 265 million pounds, about $355 million, the school said in a news release. That is “an amount that is not affordable and which would compromise the financial…
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