Art and Culture

“Black people and people with Tourette’s have been grappling with the ugly language and the fallout from a night that was supposed to be a celebration.” – The New York Times Source link
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Before the play starts, though after the house lights have gone down, we are given two definitions for one part of the title, “without can be understood both in its prepositional sense, as a lacking, and in its adverbial sense, as the…
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Supporters of keeping and renovating Keller Auditorium make known their opposition to the city’s “two venue” proposal on Wednesday, Feb. 25. Photo: Jim Redden On a chilly Feb. 25 morning, dozens of supporters of the stately but aging…
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Klaus Mäkelä is “stepping into one of the most visible cultural perches in the city and in classical music at large. He appears to bring to his new job in Chicago a curiosity about the arts that goes beyond his own medium of…
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” is getting a facial, with restorers removing a chalky white film of salt that has accumulated over the Renaissance masterpiece since its…
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A screenshot from George Mélière's Gugusse et l'Automate. The pioneering French filmmaker's 1897 short, which…
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Of course, micro-dramas, which are scripted, filmed and released in mere months, don't offer the same quality or narrative depth as movies and streamed shows. The sets are not sophisticated, the actors are mostly novices, and the…
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“If you’re going through all the trouble to create what I assume will be hundreds of logos by the time the games roll around, why would you not brand LA28 using ‘LA’ as a customized emblem? Why is it only the…
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The old adage goes that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The news this week that Sony is planning to reboot its once much-vaunted, now completely risible “Spider-Man…
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In 1999, an artwork of a dishevelled divan strewn with condoms and lager cans sparked a media frenzy and turned artist Tracey Emin into a celebrity. Why? And what happened next?Back when the world was spinning towards the 21st Century,…
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