Art and Culture

It monitors customers’ social media activity and internet searches, factors in Hailey Bieber’s latest outfits and spits out 300 styles a month made cheaply in China. After it reached $460 million in sales in 2025, one of its founders …
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Sony Music Entertainment has filed a second copyright infringement lawsuit against Udio, asserting 30,117 sound recordings it says the AI music company copied without permission to train its generative AI models.The complaint, obtained…
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“Being onstage, although well out of the spotlight, brought once-familiar sensations flooding back: the particular dry-mouth feel that comes from nerves and heavy lipstick, the sweat-and-velvet musk of the costumes. But nothing can…
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Rikud Studio wants its students to learn how to move based on how they feel, not how they look. That means no mirrors, no ballet, and no recitals.  “We want kids to grow up loving dance for their entire lives,” says Caila Moed,…
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It’s never been afraid to play fast and loose and big. The birth of the skyscraper: Chicago’s Michigan Avenue in the…
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NEW YORK (AP) — For Greek translator Emily Wilson, the release of director Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has been gratifying in various ways. Her acclaimed 2017 edition of Homer’s epic has…
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Isaac Butler is limbering up for an event at Politics and Prose, an independent bookshop and venerable Washington institution, but still has time to explain his arm tattoos.They variously depict: a logo from his grandparents’ company in…
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Open Letter Books founder and publisher Chad W. Post sees the recently launched Literary Arts Foundation in the U.S. as not only a funding opportunity, but a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rethink how we support serious book culture,…
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Jesus Christ Superstar at The London Palladium, photo by WhatsOnStage There was a recurring refrain in the comments sections when we were covering the glitzy opening night at Jesus Christ Superstar earlier this month: “I…
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