Art and Culture

Broadway cleaners have reached a tentative agreement with the Broadway League, a week after hosting a rally and strike vote.  The cleaners, represented by 32BJ of Service Employees International Union, reached a tentative deal…
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But they seem to have been left behind. “A shareholder lawsuit, quietly filed this past week against 5&2 Studios in the Delaware Court of Chancery, alleges that some of those early acolytes were prevented from sharing in the…
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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the…
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Millie Horton-Insch, project curator of British Museum Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, said: "It probably sounds a bit strange to be that excited at seeing a lorry reverse into a loading bay and a box removed, but when you consider the…
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You know an Anish Kapoor work when you see it. His mesmerizing optical illusions and reality-distorting monuments have propelled him to global art stardom. Yet, over his four-decade career,…
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The transgender teen whose success in girl’s divisions of Irish dance contests led Florida’s Attorney General to threaten legal action against the competition’s governing bodies withdrew from regional championships which concluded…
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“Given the complexity of the music, the central role of the voices and the challenging subject matter of the opera, how has it been to re-immerse in that sound world and those themes? Has learned anything new during the process…
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‘My inner Elle Woods became the driving force behind everything’Angela McCarthy, senior associate at Lawrence Stephens, London‘She makes everything seem possible’ … Angela McCarthy. Photograph: Courtesy Angela McCarthyElle made being a…
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Growing up in Puerto Rico in the late 19th century, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was told by his teacher that Black people had no significant history or accomplishments. He spent his life disproving the narrative by collecting art, books and…
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LGBTQ+ characters are slowly disappearing from film in a trend that disproportionately affects LGBTQ+ characters of color, according to a report published today.An annual study of films by the LGBTQ+ advocacy organization Glaad has found…
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