Art and Culture

This attitude found its fullest expression in America, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Americans were in love with the idea of youthful, upstart dynamism; they agreed with Ralph Waldo Emerson, who characterized “the forms…
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A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE provides evidence that reading comic books on physical paper helps the brain absorb and connect story details more easily than reading on a digital tablet. The findings suggest that…
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The National Music Publishers’ Association has agreed an industry-wide AI licensing deal with the AI music platform Udio.NMPA President and CEO David Israelite announced the deal on Wednesday (June 10) at the trade body’s annual meeting…
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By Joseph HorowitzA reconsideration of the Kennedy Center’s unrealized national mission — and what its future could yet hold.A worker removing a letter of Donald Trump’s name from the façade of the Kennedy Arts Center. Photo:…
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“Among their demands were a section of the museum dedicated to Black (and, in a later, amended statement, Puerto Rican) artists, an artist committee granted curatorial power, a ‘rental fee’ paid to artists for the exhibition of their…
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“Mora, who is 91 and tiny, wearing head scarves around her weathered face, has clung to a mix of ancestral Indigenous and Spanish traditions.” – The New York Times Source link
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I was standing in line at Chaucer’s Books, my local indie, when it occurred to me that the line was longer than usual. This has been happening regularly enough that I’ve stopped being surprised—Chaucer’s business is downright…
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My earliest reading memoryI was reading – or pretending to read – before my brain could encode memories, so probably around three or four? I “read” Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd, but that was mostly pictures.My…
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After blowing the deadline and begging for more time – and being denied – workers took Donald J. Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center on Friday night. But “a spokeswoman for the center, said the institution was … evaluating…
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Good Morning, Where does art actually get its value? Not always where you’d expect. The Chicago Symphony is now part of the soundtrack at a downtown blood-donation center (The New York Times). The Atlantic looks at…
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