Art and Culture

The number of households paying the BBC license fee plummeted last year at a time when the corporation is desperately seeking a revamp of its funding model. Today’s BBC Annual Report showed that license fee payers slid by 539,000…
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Paramount has made repeated entreaties to Bonta to strike a deal that would allow its merger with Warner Bros. to close.The studio proposed a firm commitment, via a consent decree, to produce 30 films annually, with a 45-day theatrical…
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“Proposed legislation to filter the reading choices students can make has brought concern, and budget reductions make some worry about the future of public school librarians. … ‘Right now, a lot of administrators and school boards look…
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The museum began work on “High Style: The Art of Cannabis Pipes” three years ago, thinking that increasing legalization and acceptance of marijuana made the timing good. Yet the show was cancelled this spring; museum management says it…
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“In the opinion of Martha Nussbaum, now 79, …opera can help to fix Western societies that have become nasty, brutish and narcissistic. In particular, we need more men like Cherubino, the cross-dressing boy of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro…
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When it opens in 2028, this new Center for Chamber Music will be Seattle’s first permanent venue designed exclusively for chamber music performance, featuring a 271-seat concert hall engineered to create an immersive experience where no…
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Here's something American concertgoers might not know: before a musician from another country can take the stage in the U.S., someone has to file…
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Julian MacKay had been a member of Germany’s Bavarian State Ballet as a Principal Dancer since 2022. He is now pursuing legal action after he claims he found out the news he was fired via a public post on the company’s Instagram.…
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“What Is an Author?” predicted a future where old ideas about authorship would give way to new questions about technology and power. “What are the modes of existence of this discourse?” Foucault asked. “Where does it come from, how is…
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