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After collapse and controversy, Adelaide writers’ week has a new director: ‘I don’t envy anyone in…
In January, as the implosion of Adelaide writers’ week made headlines around Australia and the world, Rosemarie Milsom was watching closely.The Adelaide festival board, which oversees AWW, had overridden the literary festival’s director,…
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Turner prize 2026 shortlist points to sculpture as a way of thinking about power, ecology and belief
The shortlist for the Turner prize 2026 brings together four artists whose practices are firmly rooted in sculpture and installation. Their work, in diverse ways, tests how material form can carry political, ecological and symbolic…
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Inside The First-Ever, Very Strictly Confidential, Choreographers’ Summit In New York
To allow for genuinely open, honest exchange, the rules at the Creators in Dance Summit, which hosted 75 choreographers across numerous genres, were simple but strict: “You cannot name individuals or institutions, and you can use what…
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Despite all the likes, literallys and dropped g’s, English isn’t decaying before our eyes
As a linguistics professor, I’m often asked why English is decaying before our eyes, whether it’s “like” being used promiscuously, t’s being dropped deleteriously or “literally” being deployed nonliterally.
While these common…
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Riyadh walks, Venice cuts, Berlin stalls
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LACMA’s New Building: What’s the purpose of art in a Museum?
The LA County Museum of Art has always been a museum on its own terms. Housed in what felt like a ramshackle architectural hodgepodge of period buildings built around an outdoor plaza, its fascinating collections belied the setting.…
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What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?
The message from the White House—and, often, from tech companies and public schools—is that Figure 03 and its A.I. militia are irreversibly here, and belong everywhere, and we should feel terrified but also “empowered,” and that the more…
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The Culture Crutch
I bumped into a conservative acquaintance in the green room at Fox News several years ago. He was obsessed with falling fertility. Knowing that I worked on immigration policy, he said that immigrants assimilate too rapidly to America’s…
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Venice Biennale Jury Says It Won’t Consider Israel and Russia
The Venice Biennale‘s jury said on Thursday that it would not consider nations whose leaders have been charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court—a move that effectively tosses Israel and Russia out of the…
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How Longer Theatrical Windows Became the New Gospel
Of all of the Hollywood actors and directors who garnered cheers at last week’s CinemaCon, no one received a louder ovation than Steven Spielberg. The legendary director himself applauded Universal for replacing its policy of bringing…
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