Art and Culture

It’s been widely assumed that the 8th-century manuscript was copied and illuminated at St. Columba’s monastery on Scotland’s island of Iona — this despite the fact that there’s no archaeological evidence that Iona had a place or…
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Once firms get consumers used to being sorted, profiled, and priced differently, the practice starts to feel inevitable. But it is not. It is a choice about what kind of business practices we expect. Personalized algorithmic pricing…
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Italian authorities said Thursday they had seized 20 million euros of assets in Tuscany, including property, vineyards and olive groves, allegedly bought with money embezzled from Bond Girl actress Ursula Andress.Andress, now 90, had…
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Since the start of the ongoing United States–Israeli military campaign against Iran, the human toll of the conflict has mounted relentlessly. Civilian casualties have been reported across the country, and the bombing campaign has…
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The New School plans to lay off 15% of the university’s full-time faculty and staff by mid-June, Provost Richard Kessler and Executive Vice President Fransico Pineda announced in a faculty-wide email on March 13, the Friday…
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Feature There is a destabilizing, dreamlike sense of awe in encountering something without knowing the answer to sanity’s most fundamental question: “Is this real?”…
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A novel by Nobel laureate Han Kang, Karen Hao’s examination of artificial intelligence and OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT) and a memoir by the author Arundhati Roy were among the winners…
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It’s a milestone moment for the Boston Lyric Opera. The 50-year-old company, which is also New England's largest, finally has a permanent place to call home.The BLO is welcoming the public to its newly renovated performance and community…
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Satirist Bill Maher is this year's recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Maher will receive the…
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Tracy Kidder, an award-winning narrative nonfiction writer who turned everything from computer engineering to life in a nursing home into unexpected bestsellers, has died. He was 80. His son, Nat…
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