Art and Culture

“In a career that spanned six decades and crisscrossed artistic and commercial contexts, Michals challenged photographic convention and innovated new forms; he is best known for building sequential, frame-by-frame narratives that pair…
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood directors on Tuesday reached a four-year tentative contract agreement with studios and streaming services. The deal struck between the Directors Guild of America and…
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Photo Illustration courtesy of TheWrap/Chris Smith Imax is having a moment. Through the theater industry’s most turbulent periods, the premium format company has remained a rare pillar of stability for a box office that badly…
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Stephan Keller, the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf, recently scheduled a surprise press conference at which he announced that the plans to build a new opera house for the city will no longer proceed. Instead, the city's current opera…
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“He focused on kinetic sculpture … and the geometric optical illusions of Op Art, infusing them with regional influences” — he was Argentine, though he spent his adult life in Paris — “and often overtly political content, … pioneer(ing)…
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The SoCal reggae act Stick Figure is, in a way, glad the single “Run Run River” made a huge impression.Stick Figure, founded by singer-songwriter Scott Woodruff in the mid 2000’s, has earned billions of streams over eight albums as an…
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What used to be a novelty has now become a core staple of symphonic programming in the United States: live soundtracks, performances in which an orchestra plays while a movie screens overhead. – The New York Times Source…
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The great Barcelona architect despised flying buttresses, especially in 20th-century neo-Gothic architecture, calling them “crutches” for a building that couldn’t support its own weight. To keep the walls and towers of his masterpiece…
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Football fans everywhere are gearing up to celebrate the sport’s most skilled athletes as they prepare for the start of another Fifa World Cup. But few get to see how the next generation of Messis and Ronaldos are discovered. For…
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Good Morning: The decline story is the easy one to write. Today’s feed makes the case for the other one — where culture is building, the rooms are full. Start in Istanbul, where Argentine tango has found a huge, fervent…
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