Art and Culture

There’s been a lot of chat about the state of musical theatre in Australia, much of it serving up late-capitalism doom and gloom. Several high-profile shows – Annie, Back to the Future, Beetlejuice, Waitress – have closed early or…
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“Dr. Hartig, are you America first? Do you love America?” So asked Representative Tim Burchett (Republican of Tennessee) of Anthea Hartig, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH), during a two-hour…
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Anthropic can finally start cutting checks to a group of authors and book publishers that sued the AI lab over copyright infringement. A federal judge gave final approval Monday of Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class…
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UPDATED with Paramount statement: The Writers Guild of America is seeking a preliminary injunction to at least temporarily halt Paramount’s proposed merger with Warner Bros Discovery, hoping to align the timing of its case with that of…
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“He plans to (depart) on July 31, 2028, his 70th birthday. His departure will signal a transition … not only for the Public, but also for theater in New York, where Eustis is among the last of a group of long-serving artistic…
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People have been complaining about and returning to this festival from the start. So why does it still have such a hold on us? – The New York Times Source link
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The pop star Dua Lipa is known for her dance-floor hits, for her turn as a mermaid in Barbie, for always seeming to be on vacation. Lately, though, she’s cultivated a reputation as a literary tastemaker. Through her book club, Service95,…
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