Art and Culture

The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco plans to lay off 53 employees and scale back some programs as it grapples with a growing budget deficit driven by rising costs and lagging revenue.The cuts, announced Tuesday, will…
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Georg Baselitz, a preeminent painter of postwar Germany and an engine of the 1980s Neo-Expressionist movement that rebuked Minimalism, and who would later come under fire for his comments about women artists, has died at 88. His death…
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Longtime arts and city government veteran Matthew Goudeau has been named San Francisco's first executive director of arts and culture.The role was created by Mayor Daniel Lurie, who vowed Monday, April 27 that "under my administration,…
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“A century ago, the median down … Park Avenue was much more welcoming than it is today, a place with seating and substantial plantings where you’d consider spending time. … In 2024, (New York City) announced a call for proposals…
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In a Broadway season notable for the strength of its musical revivals, there has been some concern that the best new musical Tony Award category might be particularly scrawny this year.The shows that left the biggest impression on me —…
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Whether you talk with engineers, venture capitalists, founders or managers, or with doomers, accelerationists, lefties or libertarians, the so-called San Francisco consensus on the impact of A.I. for workers is bleak. – The New…
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“Renzo Carbonera, an Italian filmmaker, is making his theatrical directing debut with a production (of Jitney) that he says will be the first Italian-language translation of a Wilson play to be performed by a cast of Black-Italian…
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Doron Zeilberger is a mathematician who believes that all things come to an end. That just as we are limited beings, so too does nature have boundaries — and therefore so do numbers. Look out the window, and where others see reality…
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Good Morning, Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart says the Boston Symphony has been “living on borrowed time” for years (Boston Globe). In Minneapolis, the Jungle Theater, dark since February, has put its building up…
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According to results from a 2025 Harris Poll, 62 per cent of American kids aged eight to 12 have never walked or biked somewhere without an adult. Roughly the same percentage have never made plans with friends without adult assistance,…
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