Art and Culture

As soon as Georgia O’Keeffe was shown Ghost Ranch, she knew it was her place.The remote property in the shadow of the mountains north of Santa Fe in New Mexico would become the artist’s summer residence for decades – a setting that…
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A rendering of Portland State University’s proposed performing arts center, which would include a City-owned 3,000-seat performance hall meant to replace Keller Auditorium, which would be remodeled into a smaller, 1,200- to 1,800-seat…
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“Digital avian databases like eBird were far in the future when Mr. Tudor first set about documenting swaths of the avian world in watercolors and gouaches renowned for their delicacy and precision, and for the artist’s singular knack…
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The best Amazon Kindles are reliably good at their main job: displaying ebooks in a crisp, easy-on-the-eye format. But Kindle e-readers are actually more versatile than you might imagine.If you’ve just upgraded to a new Kindle and are…
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Workers at one of the world’s leading art and design museums are balloting for “heatwave” strike action.The ballot at V&A is taking place because of concerns about soaring temperatures and access to drinking water, along with pay and…
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This article contains spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.In a different time, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey would have been celebrated by the American right as a conservative film. Nolan’s interpretation of Homer’s epic poem…
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Redevelopment of the Abbey Theatre is mired in red tape and bureaucratic reviews more than eight years after a government-promised €80 million overhaul.Two governments and three taoisigh on from a 2018 pledge to replace the “deficient”…
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Warner Bros. Discovery has filed suit against Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching employees, including Pia Barlow, former senior VP for originals marketing. In the complaint, Warner says that “Amazon has chosen to ride on the…
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My earliest reading memoryThe summer my middle sister was born, my mum and I would walk to the shops at Cherryvalley, in east Belfast, to do her messages, and she’d buy me the latest issue of Storyteller, illustrated tales from around…
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“A number of guests had told the company they would be reluctant to appear at Comic-Con shows again after cases of recordings taking place without their knowledge. The ban is applicable to Meta glasses and any other ‘wearable recording…
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