Art and Culture

Matt Williams, a creator behind such TV shows as “Roseanne” and “Home Improvement,” stood in the back of the Sheen Center in Lower Manhattan recently, greeting dozens of Broadway producers and others who might invest in his new musical…
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“The Star Tribune employs 495 people and cuts will be made across every department. The newsroom has just under 200 journalists and will decline to 175 while remaining one of the largest between the coasts. Just last year, 125 employees…
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On Saturday, French museum Centre Pompidou-Metz sent out a curious media blast headed by two grainy images. The first depicted a ripe banana duct-taped to a blank white wall—unmistakably, Maurizio Cattelan’s viral artwork Comedian—and…
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For four years, Vitalina Martynovska and her team had been working on a complete transformation of Kyiv’s National Chornobyl Museum.The new sleek displays were designed to tell a fresh story about the reactor explosion of 26 April 1986 –…
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Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or…
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In her first four months on the job, the new CEO of New York Public Radio has swiftly eliminated many of its seniormost figures, surprising the organization’s staff and unsettling some of its remaining leaders.Christy Tanner, a veteran…
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Summary: A new study has isolated the foundational cognitive engine driving human creativity and technological advancement. The research demonstrates that our “semantic knowledge”, the internal cognitive map of how concepts connect and…
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La La Land is a much adored homage to Hollywood, where dreamers take chances and seize unexpected moments.On Saturday night at the ICC’s Darling Harbour theatre, that idea became a reality for a 21-year-old university student who was…
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Norman Lebrecht’s obituary notice for Speight Jenkins, which ran today, is titled “America’s Greatest Opera Boss Has Died.” I couldn’t agree more. In Seattle, Speight created the most important Wagner house in North America. I…
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner: “Did I mention that in addition to being just a computer, she’s also kind of a bitch?” – The New York Times Magazine Source link
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