Art and Culture

Over the past five months, architects, designers, technicians and masons have been renovating this vast tomb — installing new lighting and ventilation systems, restoring the bone walls, and preparing new audio guides. – The New…
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There’s a new arts chief in town.After a yearlong search, Mayor Michelle Wu has at last selected someone to lead the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture: Joseph Henry, a native Londoner who most recently served as Boston’s director of…
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About the Opportunity BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) stands at an important moment of transformation and rebirth. Like many cultural organizations rebounding from the pandemic, BAM has been developing new practices…
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“The choir is part of a wellness program at (a D.C.) hospital that uses music to stimulate neurologic change in the brain and help patients with speech, movement, coordination and mood.” – The Washington Post (MSN) Source link
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In 2011, Andrea Fraser wrote that “what has been good for the art world has been disastrous for the rest of the world.” Fifteen years on, Fraser’s words still ring true. But finding the words for why is not always so easy, and maybe…
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I think Duchamp got at something vital about Western culture over the previous 400 years: that an object didn’t count as “art” because of its beauty, its subject matter or its greatness, but because of how it asked us to use it. …
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One of the hardest things about dancing at 71, Meryl Tankard says, is going without stilettos. “I loved them — I had the highest of all. They give you a great-shaped leg.” In her twenties the Australian danced with the Tanztheater…
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One of the largest book publishers in the US has pulled an upcoming horror novel from its scheduled release later this year following accusations that the author used artificial intelligence to write it. Hachette Book Group was…
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