Art and Culture

When Jonathan Schooler and Madeleine Gross were designing an experiment on creativity, they needed a type of media to contrast with the empty-calorie content of cat videos and the like on YouTube. The scientists settled on challenging…
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Photo shows Royal Ballet dance performance in 2025. Photo by Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts PHNOM PENH — The…
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English National Opera has announced Helen Shute as its new CEO, succeeding Jenny Mollica. Shute is currently Chief Executive and Executive Producer of the dance company Rambert, a role she has held since 2017. Shute…
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Good Morning “Get rid of everything.” That was Richard Grenell’s instruction about the Kennedy Center’s permanent art collection, according to a former staffer’s devastating firsthand account of what happened inside…
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The world, as we know, is in trouble. The last three years have been the hottest ever recorded. Global emissions are still at record highs. The planet is now consistently flirting with the 1.5C limit it promised not to cross.…
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Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces.“People like to read about people”—that’s one of the most basic things journalists have been…
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On the day I was laid off from the Kennedy Center, I felt a little like Dolley Madison saving the Stuart portrait of Washington before the British sacked the capital. I was the staffer in charge of the artworks in the building. A crucial…
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Theatres facing financial difficulty can only prosper by “programming their way out of it”, according to the Young Vic artistic director, Nadia Fall, who has announces her new slate of shows, including an anti-Trump musical version of…
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With just nine months remaining before the first Boulder, Colorado, edition of the Sundance Film Festival, the organizers of the world’s most important showcase for independent cinema — which was held in Park City, Utah, for the last…
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During a recent Zoom interview from his studio in Switzerland, Peter Zumthor offered a candid look at the making of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries.The Pritzker Prize-winning architect addressed…
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