Art and Culture

Over the decade it took Silver Lake author Yesika Salgado to achieve social media popularity with her writing, the jacaranda trees outside her neighborhood haunt Café Tropical have been witness to the triumphs and challenges that made…
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Yes, and then there’s this: “Pinterest said ‘opera aesthetics’ – a trend which it said encapsulated ‘dramatic, opulent and theatrical styles’ – was one of its fastest growing trends, with a 55% increase in interest in…
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“Transparency, porousness — all the buzzwords of architecture today are antithetical to security. It’s a paradox implicit to museum design today.” – The New York Times Source link
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How do you create a pop star?  That was the question “Mother Mary” director David Lowery tasked the film’s artisans — including choreographer Dani Vitale, director of photography Rina Yang and costume designer Bina Daigeler — with…
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“Despite so much practice, television still manages to get a few things wrong, specifically the process, the product and the people. (It occasionally manages to nail the excitement.)” – The New York Times Source link
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The best thing I watched in the past year was an epically long movie about retired militants, but it wasn’t One Battle After Another, the Oscar winner for Best Picture. It was The Sorrow and the Pity, a four-hour documentary from 1969…
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Photo: Lucas Michael for New York Magazine With a little encouragement, and after a bit of…
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For immigrant and refugee communities, telling stories becomes a means of survival in the disorientation of being uprooted from home — a way to endure, to remember and to imagine a future beyond displacement.  In 2015,…
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If you could travel back in time, what year would you choose? What would you change about history? For a surprising number of Chinese people, their answer turns out to be the same: Use what they know today to save China from its…
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