Art and Culture

Each year, as Canadians sit down to watch the Juno Awards — this year airing live on CBC and CBC Gem on March 29 — it’s worth thinking about how award shows are never just simple celebrations. National arts award ceremonies like…
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Alexander Lingas Conducts Cappella Romana in Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia at the Early Music Festival Utrecht. Photo courtesy of Cappella Romana. As Alexander Lingas beheld the shattered remains of San Francisco’s Annunciation…
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Many people around the world were cooped up at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, but few had the same good fortune as Charlotte Meyer, who spent some of her unexpected downtime after a house move going through a folder of…
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I vividly remember my first meeting with György Kurtág. It was 40 or so years ago at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, Cornwall. I was sitting in the dining hall there, when a man with grizzled hair and an unusually…
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Tampa Bay Times journalist Lauren Peace is a fan of her local bookshop, Book and Bottle, a “bookstore with wine and a wine shop with books” (and coffee!). At one of the store’s book club events, Peace had a lightbulb moment. “The…
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I recognised the signs straight away: the twirling, the mirror glances, the obsession with her music box. I didn’t need my daughter to ask if I wanted to see her “magic dance show” to confirm it – she was a dance kid.Despite efforts to…
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“The audience interaction is central to Every Brilliant Thing, … about a man processing his mother’s attempted suicide and his own depression. … It’s an exciting prospect, (Radcliffe) tells me, in large part because the play’s…
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After a dozen years as Random House, where she was executive editor and then editor-in-chief/publisher; she was fired in a corporate restructuring. When she launched Penguin Press eight days later, more than two dozen writers went with…
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Musée d'Orsay, Paris, May 7, 2025. THIBAUD MORITZ / AFP After weeks of speculation, the decision is finally in: Annick Lemoine, 57, will take over as president of the Musée d'Orsay and Musée de…
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PARIS (AP) — The Louvre Museum’s director resigned Tuesday after months of pressure following the October theft of the French crown jewels, as the world’s most visited museum faced widening…
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