Art and Culture

In Montreal, a young woman in a Spin magazine T-shirt stares furiously at the blank document on her 2011 MacBook. The scene from the new movie Mile End Kicks could have been ripped from its director Chandler Levack's own life, when the…
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Sportswriting legend Red Smith once said that writing a column is easy: “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” In 2026, though, no blood is required. All you do is sit down at a laptop and have Claude or ChatGPT write the…
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Over the decade it took Silver Lake author Yesika Salgado to achieve social media popularity with her writing, the jacaranda trees outside her neighborhood haunt Café Tropical have been witness to the triumphs and challenges that made…
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Yes, and then there’s this: “Pinterest said ‘opera aesthetics’ – a trend which it said encapsulated ‘dramatic, opulent and theatrical styles’ – was one of its fastest growing trends, with a 55% increase in interest in…
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“Transparency, porousness — all the buzzwords of architecture today are antithetical to security. It’s a paradox implicit to museum design today.” – The New York Times Source link
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How do you create a pop star?  That was the question “Mother Mary” director David Lowery tasked the film’s artisans — including choreographer Dani Vitale, director of photography Rina Yang and costume designer Bina Daigeler — with…
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“Despite so much practice, television still manages to get a few things wrong, specifically the process, the product and the people. (It occasionally manages to nail the excitement.)” – The New York Times Source link
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The best thing I watched in the past year was an epically long movie about retired militants, but it wasn’t One Battle After Another, the Oscar winner for Best Picture. It was The Sorrow and the Pity, a four-hour documentary from 1969…
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Photo: Lucas Michael for New York Magazine With a little encouragement, and after a bit of…
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