Art and Culture

By Collin ZieglerWhen I read a review of a performance, I can’t help but skip ahead until I find the key sentence: the one that announces whether it was good or bad.No matter how sophisticated or intellectual I consider myself, I can’t…
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They go back a long way to the late-1970s in New York ... where they read together for the first time in an appearance at a venue called Zu in an abandoned building of the Phoenix Iron and Steel Works. But their potent togetherness goes…
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It would be an understatement to say that the growing prominence of A.I. music is generating backlash—sometimes it seems this music generates nothing but backlash. – The New Yorker Source link
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The summer domestic box office is so close — so close–to hitting an all-time record, surpassing the $4.756 billion set in 2013. Currently, per Rentrak, the North American box office for the first Friday in May through EOD today…
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Good Robot, Bad Robot. (Photo by Pedro PARDO / AFP via Getty Images)Humanity’s relationship with its mechanical helpers has always been a little bumpy. In a production of Lohengrin, the celebrated tenor Leo Slezak was supposed to climb…
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What’s Left of The New School? Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But…
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Six will play its final performance Jan. 3, 2027 after about five years on Broadway.  The long-running musical, which sees the six wives of Henry VIII compete in a singing competition to see who had it worse, originally began…
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Women working in the arts believe they do not have equal opportunities for roles, especially as they get older, according to a report saying that the industry is fixated with “young and emerging” talent.Nearly all (95%) women working in…
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Museum of Art is canceling its planned exhibit honoring British designer John Galliano, which had led to severe backlash in the Jewish community and beyond because…
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Think about the last book you bought. How did you choose it? Was it from a recommendation, a review, a TikTok video? Did the cover grab you, were you swayed by the quotes on the front, or did you just happen to spot it on an appealing…
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