Art and Culture

It’s spring in Prague and as I write my desk is covered in pollen. Morning bees browse around my window, foraging for materials. I was recently translating some verses of Virgil, Book IV of the Georgics, which is dedicated…
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The summer musical coming to the National Theatre is all about real people, but here’s a strange feeling – many of them are literally sitting around me tonight. In a buzzy, early preview for Pride: The Musical at Cardiff’s Sherman…
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Gatekeeper, here, doesn’t mean the patriarchal bogeyman of progressive fever dreams. It means the picky curator who maintains a necessary membrane between your half-formed, typo-addled thoughts and the wider world. It means the…
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Dahlias thrust their colours skywards; hollyhocks frame a child at play; peasants tend cabbages; water lilies dot the surface of a pond. The “impressionist garden” captures all of these moments and more. But why were Monet, Renoir,…
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A man wheels a garbage bin outside of The John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Saturday, June 6, 2026,…
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Charleston's International African American Museum will furlough all staff, including leadership, due to financial pressure, according to a statement from museum officials. The temporary 20-day furlough will be…
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LONDON (AP) — David Hockney, a treasured British artist whose paintings of shimmering pools and colorful iPad drawings became icons of contemporary art, has died, his publicist said Friday. He was…
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Igor Levit and Sony Music have announced a partnership that will find the pianist curating a new label, No Silence, within the company of which he has been an exclusive artist since his first release in 2012 (collecting,…
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WH Smith has issued a profit warning after shopper numbers at its stores in US airports fell as a result of the war in the Middle East, prompting the company to raise fresh capital from investors.The retailer, which operates 1,200…
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Glenn Close will finally get her hands on an Oscar.Long considered among the best actors to never win one, the eight-time nominee will get an honorary Academy Award along with director Ridley…
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