Art and Culture

Keeping pace with Hollywood’s awards horserace.…
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A few weeks ago, where I live in Johannesburg, a man ran a stop sign and crashed into my Subaru. At the scene he was frantic, unable to gather his thoughts. Half an hour later, I received a lengthy, perfectly grammatical text from him…
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“If you work on a book for twenty years—whatever we mean by work—people really act like you’re very neurotic. Like there’s something wrong with you, or you’re doing something wrong—and it’s easy to internalize that.” – Paris…
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When the needle drops, Elias Rahbani’s 1972 album Mosaic of the Orient (Näi, Buzuk & Guitar) cascades out from a Technics SL-1300GE-K turntable and a colossal pair of Tasmanian-made Pitt & Giblin Superwax speakers. I’m in the…
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This week we collected 107 stories on ArtsJournal. Here’s what I learned. I bet you didn’t watch Google I/O last week, and why would you? It’s a tech-industry product announcement. But it’s significant because the company is so…
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This Week’s Highlights: The economic logic that built our cultural institutions showed distress this week, and the pieces are reorganizing. CBS announced it will earn $15 million a year by leasing Colbert’s Late Night…
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Neil Barclay, President & CEO of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, talks the evolving landscape for BIPOC organizations and avenues for sustainability. Source link
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How to make big, well, some bucks in late night? According to CBS, the trick is to cancel your traditional show and lease the time to someone else. The Paramount Skydance broadcast outlet, which has been grilled for weeks over its…
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The first three words from the preamble of the United States Constitution—“We the People”—are among the most famous in the world. But these days, as the country approaches its 250th anniversary, plenty of politicians in power have…
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What, exactly, defines America? It’s a question that’s been asked for more than two centuries, and it’s one not likely to be conclusively answered anytime soon. But, with the 250th anniversary of the nation’s…
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