Art and Culture

“(John) Dowland was well regarded; (he) was also well-connected, cosmopolitan and at times unusually well-remunerated for his work. Yet his musical expression was dominated by melancholy. With that imbalance comes the sense that Dowland…
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Life in chess has always been a struggle, never more so than today. During the two-year battle for the 2024 world chess championship, I saw tantrums, I saw tears, I heard one top grandmaster muse about leaving the game for a career in…
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Washington, D.C.—While the Trump administration certainly hasn’t stopped its war on higher ed, the attacks have lost a little of the intensity that marked the president’s first nine months in office. “It just doesn’t quite seem to have…
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Cutting arts and culture to “save money” is one of the most expensive mistakes a city can make. Mayor Todd Gloria’s draft FY2027 budget proposes cutting city arts and culture funding from about $13.8 million to under $2 million…
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In Steven Soderbergh’s beguiling new movie The Christophers, a reclusive artist (Ian McKellen) tangles with the quiet art forger (Michaela Coel) who his greedy children have hired to secretly finish further entries in a well-known…
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The arrangement of Price’s Rainbow Waltz the Vienna Philharmonic played at its New Year’s concert in January has been criticized for bearing almost no resemblance to the original. Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin says he commissioned an…
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New TPAC to look like a ‘manifestation of music’ | WPLN News …
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Desmond Morris, the zoologist, writer and broadcaster, who has died aged 98, in the course of 60 years put his name to more than 50 books, and fronted several hundred hours of television, starting with the Granada children’s weekly…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Book bans and attempted bans remain at record highs, according to the American Library Association. And efforts to have titles removed have never been more coordinated or…
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It was envisioned as an expansive sculpture garden to honor America’s 250th birthday, with 250 statues of figures like Kobe Bryant, Elvis Presley and Rosa Parks. But with July 4th…
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