Art and Culture

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“The Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design will be ‘a cornerstone’ of Vanderbilt’s planned campus on the … site it is purchasing from California College of the Arts.” Huang College, backed by $75…
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I played a lot of Mozart piano concertos as a student. His slow movements are not just him gushing emotions. There’s a perfect balance of structure and harmonic direction. That’s my model for my own music. I like a sense of structure.…
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The book is flattering, fabricated and absolutely packed with em dashes. It bears all the signs of A.I. slop. I clicked on the author, one John Crane Miller. His bio page described him as a “seasoned biographer and cultural analyst,”…
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By focusing narrowly on the theatrical release market, the AGs and judge are like Norma Desmond clinging to a bygone era. The same is true of the deal’s union opponents in Hollywood who worry the merger could result in fewer of their…
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“The most important thing about Marlboro, musicians say, is that it removes the pressure of performance. Ensembles are free to rehearse and study as long as they wish. … The outsize focus on study and exploration raises the question of…
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after…
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Conductor and composer Julian Wachner has agreed to plead guilty to five counts of possession of child sex abuse material and to one count of possession of cocaine after he allegedly admitted to using cryptocurrency hundreds of times to…
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“(The state) is doing something unusual, attempting to create a common canon of books that all students statewide will be required to read. The list was approved last month by the Republican-led Texas State Board of Education and is in…
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News The dissident artist arrived in Miami after serving five years in a maximum-security prison outside Havana.…
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