Art and Culture

When she was growing up in Australia, Carla de Jong remembers watching the iconic Canadian TV show Degrassi — which at the time was airing on Australia's public broadcaster."I love the example of Degrassi, which is a wonderful Canadian…
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“‘It has to resonate and feel authentic to the time,’ says one expert. ‘This generation really sees stereotypes pretty quickly … they’ll see inappropriate behavior quickly, and they will call it out.’” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)…
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Two summers ago, I started my first full-time job. This came after a series of internships with no return offers, an unfunded master’s degree, haphazard attempts at freelance writing, a self-studied LSAT, and long shifts behind…
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Comics are more than a reading experience. They are a culture. While reading a comic has traditionally been the centrepiece of that culture — with comics being the “social object” that binds and unites the culture, in the words of…
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The “demographic cliff” is upon us. The number of teenagers graduating from American high schools peaked last year. It will begin declining this spring and keep falling steadily through at least 2041. The trend is more of a downward…
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The Artistic Health and Wellness Student Center, which opened in September, is a $4.7 million expansion of the school, the training ground for New York City Ballet. – The New York Times Source link
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The letter warns that merging two of Hollywood’s major studios will result in “fewer opportunities for creators, fewer jobs across the production ecosystem, higher costs and less choice for audiences in the United States and around the…
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The Indian singer Asha Bhosle, whose voice defined Bollywood cinema and whose career spanned almost eight decades, has died in Mumbai at the age of 92.Bhosle, who recorded more than 12,000 songs, became her country’s pre-eminent exponent…
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A raffle in France is offering the chance to win a portrait by Pablo Picasso for the price of a €100 (£87) ticket, with proceeds going to Alzheimer’s research.Picasso painted the gouache-on-paper Tête de Femme (Head of a Woman) in 1941.…
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