Art and Culture

Equity’s West End indicative ballot announcement, © Mark Thomas West End performers and stage managers have voted to accept a new agreement, previously reported here, that includes increased pay and supports better…
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A coalition of nearly a dozen of the biggest record companies in the music business — including the “big three” of Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Warner Music Group — are calling for global music charts to adopt policies that…
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In Sarah Wilson’s new book, one page is mostly blank. It’s intended as a reprieve, a neutral space “for you to stare at for a minute while your feelings catch up”.You will need it. In I Eat the Stars, Wilson argues that the world as we…
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The unnamed narrator of Deborah Levy’s latest novel, My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, is trying—and failing—to write an essay about the enigmatic author, art collector, and high priestess of modernism. She’s come to the City…
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A book on Greek antiquities has been returned to an Australian public library about 150 years late, with water damage from years bricked into a fireplace.The book was…
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In a social media post, Bernard Arnault, France’s richest man and one of Europe’s most influential art patrons and collectors, shot back at a scathing, six-part investigation by Le Monde delving into the scope of his power, wealth, and…
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I once described Bill McGlaughlin, who has died at the age of 82, as manifesting “a singular combination of gravitas, humor, and informed sincerity.” He began his musical life as a trombonist, later became a conductor and composer —…
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By Will DunhamWASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) - Globally, people currently use roughly 7,500 languages, with English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic and French the most common, counting native and nonnative speakers. That is a…
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