Art and Culture

From opening title card to closing credits, “The Odyssey” is a nearly three-hour barn burner, racing from event to event with whirlwind kinetic energy. Blink and you’ll miss some roaring fire, raucous tempest, or piggy sorceress on the…
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The age-old question returns. “Surely Renoir would at least have benefitted from being slightly less prolific.” – Artnet Source link
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art doubled in size this summer when it opened an expansion, by Safdie Architects, that continues the spirit of the museum’s transformation of its woodland setting. (photo by Steve Paul)…
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The ingenious answer was proposed by an art-engineering firm called SMACH. The company’s experts realized that, if the tapestry could not be rotated and stored, perhaps it could be stored and then rotated. They designed an object that…
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here.Article continues after advertisement Only trouble is interesting, and what causes more trouble for us humans than our love lives? With love, we’re…
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Five years ago, people who hang out in the stranger corners of the web started arguing that the internet was mostly fake. It had been this way since about 2016, they said, when Google introduced its artificial neural network for machine…
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Onslaught, in theaters this week, should be the perfect early-September treat. The aggressive action thriller is gory, loud, and packed with interesting actors, and it has a straightforward premise: Three murderous super-soldiers, the…
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I grew up in Great Yarmouth listening to classical music, learning piano and violin, playing in an orchestra and singing the Beatles in choir. Music was something that was arranged and formal, a privilege handed to me. At 18 I moved to…
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Argentina must return to the rightful owner’s heir an 18th-century painting stolen by Nazis from a Dutch Jewish art collector, a judge has ruled.Portrait of a Lady by Italian baroque painter Giuseppe Ghislandi was missing for eight…
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