Art and Culture

Employees and artists are speaking out about turmoil in the San Francisco Arts Commission, alleging that its leader has been chronically absent and arguing that it's harming the arts by cutting staff and changing how it funds artists.Two…
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A Louvre employee was indicted and detained on Wednesday on charges including organized gang fraud as part of an investigation into a scheme to defraud the Paris museum of ticket fees for thousands of visitors. Six others had been…
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Claudine Longet, the French-born singer, actress and ex-wife of Andy Williams who was at the center of a scandalous 1976 trial and media circus after she fatally shot her boyfriend, Olympic skier Spider Sabich, has died. She was 84.…
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Lincoln Center is about to look very different from Amsterdam Avenue. The iconic performing arts campus officially broke ground this week on a massive redesign of its western edge, a massive transformation that will turn the longtime…
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Bass Paata Burchuladze has been sentenced to seven years in prison following an Oct. 4, 2025 protest on Election Day. The opera…
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Alexis Corbière and Alexandre Portier, the French MPs overseeing the government commission investigating the shocking October 19, 2025, Louvre jewel heist, have accused the museum of deprioritizing security at the museum. The full…
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Hirsch Chitkara, a doctoral student based in New York, wrote this week’s Sidebar about the philosophical visions of tech’s founders—specifically those of Palantir’s co-founders Alex Karp and Peter Thiel. Comparing Karp’s recent book, The…
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To paraphrase the musical Rent, 131,487,300 minutes – how do you measure, measure 250 years? Especially in a country navigating an election year fraught with divisions and disagreements over basic facts?That is the challenge facing the…
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A once-stolen collection of letters written by the Romantic poet John Keats to his fiancée Fanny Brawne will be sold at Sotheby’s New York this June with an estimate of $1.5 million to $2.5…
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