Art and Culture

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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France has appointed Christophe Leribault as the new head of the Louvre, bringing in the director of the Palace of Versailles to turn around the world’s most visited museum after a humiliating jewellery heist and staff strikes.Leribault,…
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Kenny Blank, Tomer Zvulun, and Mayor Andre Dickens at the groundbreaking of the Molly Blank Center for Opera and the ArtsRendering courtesy of the Atlanta OperaOn Monday, the Atlanta Opera pitched a big red-and-blue circus tent on the…
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On a Monday afternoon this winter, 64-year-old historian James Millward climbed the steps of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery with a “little stack of handouts, like a good professor,” and no sense of the drama that was about to…
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Generative artificial intelligence has become a routine part of creative work. Novelists are using it to develop plots. Musicians are experimenting with AI-generated sounds. Filmmakers are incorporating it into their editing…
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Broadway grosses dropped 6 percent last week as eight productions canceled Sunday evening performances due to the blizzard in New York City.  Wicked, one of the highest earners on Broadway, saw the biggest drop due to the storm,…
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As Bari Weiss seeks to reimagine CBS News, staffers are preparing for the network’s flagship program 60 Minutes, arguably the most influential news program in all of TV, to be “revolutionized” along with it. When Weiss first…
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For more than four decades, Robison was a constant at Tilson Thomas’ side – not only as spouse but as manager, adviser and strategic partner. Friends and colleagues often described him as the behind-the-scenes architect who…
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The aim is cognitive clarity via fewer inputs, distilled choices, and settings centred around presence and focus. While design minimalism emphasizes appearance and object count, psychological minimalism directs attention and reduces…
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Éliane Radigue, a French electronic composer behind multiple masterworks of musique concrète and minimalism, has died. The Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (INA GRM), a Paris-based research institute that specializes in the genre,…
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