Art and Culture

Is truth determined by the size of the audience it reaches? If so, Michael, a new film about pop singer Michael Jackson, intends to exalt the King of Pop as the apotheosis of artistic virtue. The movie is on track to have the…
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Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d type: The propaganda coming out of Iran is having a moment. Since the first days of the U.S.-Israeli attack on that nation, a group calling itself Explosive Media has been releasing AI-generated…
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I hear Harvey Fierstein’s inimitable rasp as soon as I enter Cotton Candy Fabrics quilt store in Connecticut. The walls are lined with vibrant fabrics and colourful quilts hang from the ceiling. On any given day you’ll probably find the…
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Gardening content may be the last wholesome corner of the internet, and one of the few that feels less undermining than its old-media counterparts. When I finally got my own piece of dirt after decades of apartment living, I…
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An exhibit featuring the Rocky Balboa statue that once stood at the bottom of the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps is now underway."Rising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments" examines how a fictional fighter became a real-world…
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“As a librettist, I’m always aware that I’m serving the music. It’s a humbling experience. Coming from the world of theater is a good thing, because theater is all about collaboration and interpretation—you place the work in the…
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By my count, there are only three songs in the Broadway’s new Schmigadoon! that can be heard as direct lifts from the Golden Age tuners the show is riffing on, with its everyday-people-trapped-in-an-old-timey-musical premise:…
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The venue that created a new type of live entertainment has become the highest-grossing arena in the world, with $379 million on 1.7 million tickets sold last year, according to Pollstar. When it opened three years ago, it had all the…
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Good Morning, An AI model trained to value paintings has declared a random street artist’s work more valuable than a Picasso (ARTnews). Whatever that means. Meanwhile, a Facebook group called Baddies in AI — women using AI to…
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