Art and Culture

It was two in the morning. The air in my apartment was thick with the grease-slick stench rising from the dueling dollar pizza stores beneath my window, a miasma punctured by the thumping synth bass of a Troye Sivan track bleeding from…
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Good Morning, Frank Lloyd Wright’s plans for the Guggenheim called for pink, but Solomon Guggenheim wasn’t convinced, and New York authorities approved the Le Corbusier-style white instead. British architect Adam Nathaniel Furman…
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Every fast-growing company has a moment where its systems start to buckle: Spreadsheets break, different tools tell different versions of the truth, approvals stall in someone’s inbox, and the business starts moving faster than its…
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As AI-generated writing floods the internet, more people are trying to detect which creators are using such tools to spin up copy. That means writers penning all their own work—and people who acknowledge using chatbots for help—are…
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For decades, awards shows were the most glamorous events on television.Annual events such as the Oscars and the Emmys gave viewers a front-row seat to their favorite stars in designer clothes, while music award shows featured the…
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The Louvre temporarily closed Monday due to about 50 protesting arts and culture students, who blocked its glass pyramid entrance, Le Figaro reports. Their action comes on the one-year anniversary of the brazen jewelry heist at the…
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A giant spiral staircase guides visitors to the roof of the Shanghai Grand Opera House, which international studio Snøhetta designed to be "as much a civic…
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“‘As soon as we opened we were aware of the lack of opportunity for the entire minority community,’ said Dale, 80, in a recent interview. ‘It was definitely the mission.’” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)…
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This week, a new organization called the American Entertainment Alliance will begin publicly pushing for legislation to force the biggest entertainment and streaming companies — including Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime Video and Skydance…
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“The sticking point, as discussed by city officials at a public meeting last Wednesday before a vote on a revised contract, was Art Basel’s demand to essentially halve the nearly $1 million annual rent the fair had previously paid…
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