Art and Culture

NEW YORK (AP) — Sara Mearns was missing her cues.She couldn’t hear what her dance partner was saying from across the studio. She was late for her entrances because the music sounded too…
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In 1995, as Joe Mantello stepped away from a successful acting career to focus on directing, he had a vision for one of the actors he had cast in Terrence McNally’s Love! Valour! Compassion! Nathan Lane, already…
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The Montreal Symphony Orchestra and its ninth music director seal new relationship The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM) and conductor Rafael Payare have just extended their…
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In the last two years, four of the Big Five publishers have launched imprints wholly devoted to a burgeoning category of fiction readers—“new adults.” In 2024, St. Martin’s Publishing Group unveiled Saturday Books, a grown-up…
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PARIS (AP) — French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud said Wednesday that he has been sentenced to three years in prison in Algeria for his book “Houris,” a recipient of France’s most prestigious…
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She gave her first recital at four and performed her first concerto at seven, going on to tour with the Boston Pops, play for five U.S. presidents, and record 10 LPs. She developed a new audience with Beethoven videos during the 2020…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — To President Donald Trump, the Kennedy Center is a “tired, broken, and dilapidated” building in urgent need of repair. To artists like Jane Fonda and Billy Porter, it’s a protest…
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A tourist has been charged after allegedly climbing a colossal marble statue in Florence to touch its genitals for a pre-wedding prank.Experts said the woman caused thousands of euros of damage to the Neptune fountain in Piazza della…
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This soul of yours has obviously come into existence with your body. Yet equally obviously it’s not made of bodily stuff. It lasts through the night when your body sleeps. It wanders off and leaves your body when you dream. – Aeon…
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The gutting of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2025 has had catastrophic consequences, including in South Sudan where amid ongoing war, an estimated 33 million people require humanitarian…
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