Art and Culture

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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(And the internet is losing its mind about it.) Hudson Williams, the Canadian sweetheart behind the smash hit Heated Rivalry, has pledged his allegiance to the English department. Your favorite hockey…
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Good Morning, Three reversals to start with. A federal judge ordered Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center and halted the planned two-year closure. The NYT Breaks down what’s next (The New York Times). Meanwhile,…
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Just in case you’ve missed multiple strains of philosophy, ethics, and “happiness studies” over the years, not to mention Buddhist thought, well: “When we encounter something new, we get a dopamine hit. … But sometimes novelty…
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Danny Beckley, president and CEO of the Kansas City Symphony (Kansas City Symphony) Danny Beckley, president and CEO of the Kansas City Symphony, shares his vision for a new symphony-owned live music venue near the Plaza Library…
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Bessy was “a graceful French ballet star whose firm hand at the helm of the Paris Opera Ballet School for three decades made it one of the world’s top dance institutions, though her rigorous methods eventually drew stinging…
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He’s also said he wants to headline it himself. But “a senior administration official described the rollout of the concerts as ‘a mess’ and suggested that someone would most likely be fired over how the invitations to the event had been…
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First it came for bookshops. Then your favourite coffee shop. Now there is a new frontier when it comes to upping your merch game: museums.Instead of art print postcards and coffee table books, you are now more likely to find everything…
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Author and illustrator Loryn Brantz never imagined that a popular cartoon character she created almost a decade ago would one day be the subject of an intellectual property dispute involving BuzzFeed, Amazon’s video streaming service,…
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Keeping pace with Hollywood’s awards horserace.…
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