Art and Culture

Habermas “theorized that democracy emerged and could continue to exist in a healthy form only if there was a space that was outside the control of the state, where deliberation and the exchange of ideas could freely occur.”…
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s counter-culture caper One Battle After Another has won the Oscars war, taking home six awards after a hotly contested season.The big-budget comedy thriller, inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, was named best…
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In the March 8 New York Times a sentence appeared that ought to have struck profound alarm in the minds of all serious-minded operagoers. "What we really need," declared Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb, "is one of these…
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“We strongly oppose the decision by the Board of Trustees to end the appointment of Maestro Nelsons,” the musicians said in a statement posted to social media. “The musicians believe in Andris’s vision for the future.”Get Starting PointA…
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Barnes & Noble was once the avatar for sinister big-box stores on the march against independent businesses. In 1998’s You’ve Got Mail, Tom Hanks plays an executive at Foxbooks, a thinly disguised bookstore chain, who puts out of…
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After about 50 feature films and 40 years in the industry, Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter — nominated again this year for Sinners — has seen a lot of change, but she says it isn’t something that just happened. "We broke…
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I first saw George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead at age five. A five-year-old doesn’t request a 1960s horror classic; rather, it appears on a screen before him. It helped to have a mother who aligned to the factory specs…
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If you’ve got strong creative instincts, the ability to authentically portray emotion, and are capable of staying true to a character’s voice throughout a scene, there’s a job listing calling for your experience.The catch: You won’t be…
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Timothée Chalamet couldn’t have hit a lower note among his artistic peers last week.The “Marty Supreme” actor’s recent comments dismissing ballet and opera as arts “no one cares about” led to public ridicule and backlash within the…
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