Art and Culture

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In Avignon, where artists, programmers and theatergoers rub shoulders for a month every summer, the announcement has ignited fierce debates and protests. Last week, an estimated 1,800 people demonstrated in front of the Papal Palace.…
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My teacher was one of the people I most wanted to see whenever I visited New York City. Usually I’d call her as soon as I was settled, and when she answered the phone, I’d say, “Hi, this is Jane Bernstein,” and she’d say, “Jane…
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There are, of course, other models of languages coexisting, with varying levels of amity. The Flemish-French divide in Belgium has not exploded in tumult but has nevertheless left the country in a state of institutional paralysis. French…
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This summer, we’ve been blessed with new movies from the legendary director Steven Spielberg and one of his biggest and most beloved successors, Christopher Nolan. In both cases, the movies have been heavily sold on the directors’ names,…
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“The sun is hot,” Alan Jackson sings, accompanied by a trio of jaunty guitars (electric, acoustic, and pedal steel), and for a moment this sounds like a celebration. Instead, it turns out to be the beginning of a complaint:The sun is hot…
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On June 3, Pace Gallery’s CEO, Marc Glimcher, released a statement saying that “the current gallery model isn’t only broken, it’s unfixable.” He had just told the New York Times that Pace was…
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‘The most important part of the word ‘fanzine’ is ‘fan’,” says London-based zine-maker Jon Marsh. Existing outside mainstream media, free from the demands of release cycles and search engine optimisation, music fanzines are obsessions…
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. You don’t usually have to issue a spoiler warning for an adaptation of a 2,700-year-old text,…
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