Art and Culture

Nearly six years after it was engulfed by a devastating fire that inflicted incalculable damage on Brazil’s cultural heritage, the country’s national museum has received an important donation of more than a thousand fossils as part of a…
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The funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven in Vienna on 29 March 1827 was a grand affair. So great was the crowd that the cortège took 90 minutes to struggle its way from his last residence to the Church of the Holy Trinity in the Alsergasse.…
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The exponential growth of artificial intelligence over the past year has sparked discussions about whether the era of human domination of our planet is drawing to a close. The most dire predictions claim that the machines will take…
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Every few days, a notification pings my phone: a fresh installment of Elif Shafak’s Substack. In one post, the Turkish British novelist recalls reading Don Quixote at age 11; in another, she offers a dispatch from New York, where she…
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Shari Redstone helped build Paramount Global into a media empire, but if Sony Pictures Entertainment and the private-equity giant Apollo Global Management succeed in acquiring it, they plan to break it all up, according to three people…
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Lack of authenticity is not the reason. Its score was written by white men but so were the scores of “Purlie” and “Dreamgirls.” A lack of flash may have been a factor: “The Wiz” and “Dreamgirls” are spectacles, as much about costumes and…
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MALMO, Sweden (AP) — Eden Golan is in Sweden for the Eurovision Song Contest, but she is not seeing much of the country.The 20-year-old Israeli singer is surrounded by security as she travels…
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Baltimore filmmaker John Waters was released from the hospital Tuesday morning following a car accident on Monday.The 78-year-old released a statement saying that although he was hurt in the Baltimore County crash, he did not sustain…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ever since Giacomo Puccini died without finishing his last opera, “Turandot,” audiences have thrilled to its soaring melodies like “Nessun Dorma,” but also perhaps lamented the…
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“San Francisco philanthropist Maria Manetti Shrem has promised UC Davis the largest gift ever to arts at the school — $20 million to create the multifaceted ‘Maria Manetti Shrem Arts Renaissance’ program at the College…
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