Art and Culture

The Gate theatre in London, which has punched above its weight ever since it was founded above a Notting Hill pub in 1979, is to close permanently next month.The announcement comes four years after the theatre had what it described as a…
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Samuel D. Hunter writes compact human dramas that pack a maximal punch. Both “Grangeville,” Los Angeles’ most acclaimed theatrical offering of the summer (extended at Ruskin Group Theatre through Sept. 21), and “A Case for the Existence…
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Producer Scott Rudin is back on Broadway this season with the boldest works of his comeback thus far: a critically acclaimed play about four convicted sex offenders and a starry, but nearly wordless play, Small Mouth Sounds, with…
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Danshuis Rotterdam. Artist Impression. MAD Rotterdam’s Danshuis will be the largest centre in Europe dedicated to the production and development of dance Detailed designs by internationally acclaimed Chinese architect Ma…
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“Obviously, failing and struggling is not fun, but the sense of pride and succeeding afterwards is very, very motivating for me. And I don’t think you’d get that same kick or that same hit from getting a ninety from ChatGPT versus…
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Americans may not realize for many years just how lucky they were that Lonnie G. Bunch III led the Smithsonian Institution from 2019 to 2026. Bunch has announced that he will step down at the end of this year. He insists that the timing…
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Posnock is also strong on what someone must have named the Grant-Leach dichotomy, and he generally lands on the right people and the right points. He has a flair for aphorism: “Sophistication insists that being and appearing coincide. We…
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If I told you that there’s an activity that improves your vocabulary, your communication skills, and your knowledge of history and foreign languages; that provides an endless supply of fun facts and enjoyable epiphanies; and that is…
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Mayor Roberto Gualtieri presented the recently restored ‘Painted City’ fresco and ‘Great Mosaic’ that were discovered in an underground gallery during excavations in the 1990s of the Baths of Trajan on the Oppio hill near the…
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