Art and Culture

Well, not kids, but youth, YouTube youth. “The success of two YouTube-native filmmakers at the box office indicates the growing power of the platform — and online culture as a whole — in attracting audiences to cinemas.” – Los…
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OK: “The music giant said Pershing Square’s $64.3bn (£48bn) takeover offer was ‘not in the best interests’ of the company, shareholders, artists, fans and other stakeholders.” – BBC Source link
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Slowly, in front of star-studded crowds that included the rockers Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt and Boz Scaggs, Toussaint reinvented himself. – The New York Times Source link
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Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the camera and pleads for views: “Even as…
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Spread across a sprawling 17th-century industrial complex in London’s Clerkenwell, the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, which opens next month, is being billed as the largest institution of its kind anywhere in the world: a…
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Marcia Lucas, the Oscar-winning film editor behind Star Wars and the ex-wife of director George Lucas, has died. She was 80. Lucas died Wednesday in Rancho Mirage, California, from cancer. “Marcia will be remembered as a…
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And yes, we sure do mean the Kennedy Center. – The New York Times Source link
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Sheung was “deeply invested in crafting an image of female autonomy and audacity at a time when women’s lives were constrained by traditional expectations.” – The New York Times Source link
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But how can it be a joke when you’re doing it day in and day out? No, totally. It didn’t really work. Didn’t work…
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A few months ago I found a paperback copy of George Orwell’s “1984” on a city bus. I opened it and found myself reading a familiar passage about the protagonist Winston Smith’s cubicle and the slot in the wall nicknamed the “memory…
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