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Roddenberry Entertainment COO Trevor Roth on Wednesday paid tribute to an unlikely savior for the original Star Trek TV series: Lucille Ball. “Star Trek was a failed television series for a very long time. It did not do well, and…
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With Art Basel Paris closing two days early, ahead of planned protests this weekend, dealers have yet to figure out how to get their artworks out of the Grand Palais. The fair will shut its doors at 7 p.m. Friday, rather than…
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“You can’t talk about aesthetics,” he wrote, “without talking about the principle of hope and the existence of evil.” Attention, for him, was a matter of life and death, or at least of their cultural equivalents, remembering and…
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After all, we’ve been producing particle board for a long time. As Orwell observed (in pre-chatbot 1946!), “prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like…
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In the summer of 1518, people in Strasbourg couldn’t seem to stop dancing—some even danced themselves to death. It all started with one woman, who stepped into the street and began moving uncontrollably. Soon, dozens of other…
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Good Morning, Snøhetta, the Oslo architecture firm, opened the Shanghai Grand Opera House on October 17 with a double-helix staircase on the Huangpu River that passersby can climb whether or not they have a seat inside…
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Founded by collector and philanthropist Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) holds a singular place in the cultural landscape as the world’s first institution solely dedicated to championing women…
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“The play, The Amish Project, will be Groff’s first nonmusical production on Broadway, and it’s strikingly personal for him: It’s a work of fiction inspired by a 2006 shooting at a one-room Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania, just…
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David Cohen said that after his return, he “very quickly circled around arts and culture as the space where I thought I could make a real difference, a place where obviously Philadelphia has prominence and wonderful organizations, but…
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