Art and Culture

Alyssa Collins knew when she assumed her post as the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens’ inaugural Octavia E. Butler fellow in 2021 that the science-fiction luminary had openly criticized her lost novel,…
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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav‘s compensation tied to the company’s pending merger with Paramount was rejected by an eye-opening 82% of shareholders, the company said Thursday. Earlier in the day, the company convened a…
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Under the arrangement, the Saudi government would have provided the Met with $200 million in badly needed funding in exchange for the company performing a three-week season at the Royal Diriyah Opera House just outside Riyadh each…
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Work to disassemble and remove Vaillancourt Fountain from Embarcadero Plaza is scheduled to start Monday, following months of controversy and a legal challenge, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department told the Chronicle on…
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This past January, Khaby Lame, a Senegalese-Italian who has 160 million followers for his Chaplin-esque silent TikTok shorts, signed a $975 billion deal with Hong Kong-based firm Rich Sparkle Holdings for use of his likeness in…
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Michael Tilson Thomas, an American conductor who grew up in public from an imperious wunderkind into one of the grand old men of classical music, died April 22 at his home in San Francisco. He was 81.The cause was glioblastoma, an…
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Days after layoffs at Artnet and Artsy shook the art world, investor and owner Andrew E. Wolff has offered his clearest explanation yet for the cuts, framing them as part of a broader consolidation strategy already underway at the two…
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Kraftwerk have lost one of the longest-running copyright cases in music history over a sample of their song ‘Metall Auf Metall’. The dispute centres around a short excerpt of the 1977 track that was used in the 1997 song ‘Nur Mir’ by…
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The Victoria & Albert Museum has completed its expansion into east London with the opening of V&A East, a new $180 million outpost that began welcoming the public over the weekend. The…
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Visitors watch visual artist Thodoris…
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