Art and Culture

Calace, I discovered, was a Neapolitan workshop that had been making mandolins since 1825, and Raffaele Calace, the grandson of the founder, had been the greatest composer for mandolin in the late nineteenth century. But his music was…
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Not only will AI agents compete away the revenue streams of the giant digital platforms, but they will also render irrelevant the data on which the platforms built their competitive advantage. – Harvard Business Review Source…
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The number of LGBTQ+-focused bookstores in the U.S. has slowly but steadily increased over the past five years. While this new generation of booksellers all give a nod to their predecessors, they’ve also made a point of doing…
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The European Commission, an independent arm of the EU responsible for enforcing EU law, has given the Venice Biennale 30 days to “clear its name” regarding the inclusion of the Russian Pavilion in the 2026 edition, according to a…
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Read more news stories here Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto has announced that he will stop working in the United States for the time being, citing ethical objections to the country’s current political leadership and concerns about the…
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Playwrights Horizons – Director of Development Organizational Summary: Playwrights Horizons is a writer’s theater committed to the advancement of bold and visionary contemporary playwrights, through the development…
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A year after threatening to "dramatically" downsize the operations of San Francisco's Presidio, President Donald Trump has terminated the park's board of trustees.The six trustees, who were all appointed by former President Joe Biden,…
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It was a sticky summer night and Blanche DuBois was descending into madness — not on a proscenium stage, mind you, but in a carousel house off the boardwalk in Asbury Park, New Jersey. And the soundtrack to the evening? The hip-hop beats…
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“Among those messages: a palpable sense of desperation. In the rapid and angry response to the meme, one sensed a coalition beginning to crack, and in the message itself — unfiltered, offensive and unhinged — one sensed the instability…
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