Art and Culture

Good Morning, August Wilson wrote one of his best plays by staring at a Romare Bearden collage until it told him what happened next (New York Times). Not influence in the sentimental sense, but a transfer of structure across forms, he…
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“It was very clear from the word go that his heart was in classics, and it became clear fairly quickly to me that he really loved Greek tragedy, and that is a nice bridge to his acting career.” – The New York Times Source link
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“Amid the pain and protest following George Floyd’s murder by police in 2020, artists known and unknown picked up brushes and spray cans. They created hundreds of murals on 4×8-foot plywood sheets covering windows and doors.”…
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Wilson “discovered Bearden in 1977, when The Prevalence of Ritual, a 1964 series of Bearden’s collages collected in a volume, captured his attention.” – The New York Times Source link
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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey in Imax 70mm is the hottest club in town, if you can get in.While Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic is available on thousands of screens around the world, there are only 41—including 25 in the US—that can…
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Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.The upcoming 10th…
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“The firm had been aiming to close the deal by September but agreed to table its takeover — perhaps until next spring — to allow a fiercer than expected challenge from California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and 11 other Democratic state…
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I work in the Art Department at HarperCollins, where I have a front-row seat to the conversations that shape how books appear in the world. What kind of cover art reads as “literary” versus “commercial,” what signals a “book…
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Photo-Illustration: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures (Odyssey), Getty Images (Remaining)…
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“The aulos appears throughout Greek art, depicted in military and domestic scenes alike. To modern eyes it looks like two recorders that come together at a player’s mouth, blown at the same time.” – The New York Times Source…
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