Art and Culture

“Will Pittsburgh become America’s most important city without a newspaper?” Josh asked in January. The answer, we learned Tuesday, is no: The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, the nonprofit parent organization of The…
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Hampshire College in Amherst announced Tuesday it will permanently close its doors at the end of this year, citing financial difficulties."Hampshire's board made this decision only after exploring every possible alternative," Jose…
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In the company’s staging of Kaija Saariaho’s opera Innocence, seven stage managers, four prop masters, and a big flock of stagehands transform the set from a decorated wedding-banquet hall into a blood-spattered high-school classroom in…
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“Dancers danced at the company’s new North Broad Street building for the first time. Even as construction workers continued their own choreography of spackling and power-driving screws, company dancers could be seen in a large, glassy,…
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One of the UK’s leading museums has accepted demands by a Chinese firm that publishes its catalogues to remove images that fall foul of the country’s censorship laws.The Victoria and Albert Museum has agreed to requests by the Chinese…
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Every now and then, music gets a guitar hero—a player who makes the instrument sound like something other than itself. Jeff Beck transformed it into something like the human voice singing; Jimi Hendrix, a psychedelic swirl. Fans are…
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The two museums now share a similar challenge: to reach across racial, economic, educational and even geographic lines to feel vital and necessary to a vast cross-section of people who constitute Atlanta. And to do so at a time when it…
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Jackie Chan (© Walid Farouk/Wikimedia Commons) Actor and martial artist Jackie Chan will direct his first opera, a production of Turandot, this summer at the 72nd Puccini Festival at Torre del Lago, Italy. Turandot will…
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The website Your AI Slop Bores Me takes its name from a meme people on social media use to criticize AI-generated content. The site — a fake AI…
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