Art and Culture

When the 82-year-old psychologist Peter Gray describes the way he grew up, he punctuates the anecdotes by saying that modern parents would be arrested for letting a child have such fun. When he was 4 years old, he would walk to a store…
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Hey Big Thinkers, Big Think is hosting a live event to bring our latest issue, The Opt-Out Nation, to life. Members can join us for a candid conversation with the editors and writers who made it, including voices from The New York Times,…
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We human beings remain stubbornly, beautifully starving for one another. More surprising — and heartening — we are looking upward and outward, and returning to one another after being tethered for so long to our screens. This all…
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Donald Trump has dropped part of his $10bn (£7.5bn) lawsuit against the BBC.Mr Trump is demanding damages from the corporation, claiming a Panorama documentary defamed him because of an allegedly misleading edit of footage of one of his…
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The July 16 performance of Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio, with James Conlon conducting the Chicago Symphony and soloists including Katherine Lewek and Miles Mykkanen, was called off due to hazardous air quality caused by smoke…
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“The article, ‘A Silent Moratorium,’ explores the harassment and professional challenges that Israeli and Jewish authors have experienced since the (Gaza War). … The chief executives knew the article could be controversial, … but…
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 Discover more lutherie articles here In 2007, Joshua Bell performed Bach in a Washington, D.C. underground station. In his hands was a Stradivari violin worth several million dollars. Almost nobody stopped to listen. Had the same…
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Spain’s housing crisis finally came for the tenants of Madrid’s Calle Tribulete 7 when their block was sold to an investment fund. Feeling pressured to leave by rent increases and aggressive construction works that flooded some…
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When Alessandra Ferri took over as artistic director of the Vienna State Ballet, she stepped into the role with a very clear vision. She knows, instinctively, what a company should be and works, with complete discipline, to make it so.…
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