Art and Culture

The State Library of Victoria has scrapped a controversial restructure proposal after a public outcry, saying it had “created unintended concerns”.Many of Australia’s most prominent writers, researchers and artists, along with thousands…
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FUJIYOSHIDA, Japan (AP) — The trouble started with a beautiful photo. Social media was soon awash with the lovely view of Japan’s snow-capped Mount Fuji looming over a red pagoda and the…
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From left: Khana Desen, Victoria Ung, Channa Sath, Rancia Phin and Sophorl Ngin as the white swans in the third act of "A Khmer Swan Lake." (Courtesy James Higgins)On a blustery spring evening, dancers rehearse in the warm belly of the…
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William Liu is grateful that he finished high school when he did. If the latest AI tools had been around then, he told me, he might have been tempted to use them to do his homework. Liu, now a sophomore at Stanford, finished high school…
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“The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is adding $50 million to its endowment fund, thanks to donors matching a $25 million challenge grant from the O’Donnell Foundation. … The DSO’s O’Donnell match comes three months after …
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The Louisiana State Museum (LSM) system is conspicuously missing from a list of US museums recently reaccredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). LSM, which was last accredited in 2011, has had its status is under review and…
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Lyric Opera of Chicago’s coming 2026-27 season will include seven operas — “Don Giovanni,” “Omar,” “Don Pasquale,” “Hérodiade: An Opera in Concert,” “Ariadne auf Naxos,” “La traviata,” and “Susannah” — as well as the return of its…
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It's a thrilling example of progressive modernist design. Or an amorphous concrete monstrosity.Love it or hate it, Los Angeles County Museum of Art's David Geffen Galleries are officially opening. And with the 347,500-square-foot new…
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Here’s another reason for nonprofit arts organizations to make that scene change toward charitable activities. What is “news?” I was in the process of researching communications and public relations strategies and came across…
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that school officials and politicians have broad discretion to order the removal of books from school libraries as long as the removals are “reasonably” related to “legitimate…
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