Art and Culture

The Opera Ball was scheduled for Sept. 12, opening night of the season — and the date on which the company orchestra’s musicians have threatened to begin a strike if their contract negotiations haven’t been settled by then. – San…
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L’opera seria – photo Brescia e Amisano (c)Teatro alla Scala Teatro alla Scala’s streaming platform is dropping its paywall. From Tuesday 1 September, every title in the LaScalaTV catalogue will be available to watch for free,…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wendell Berry, the Kentucky-born author and agrarian who in poems, stories, novels and essays celebrated the farming communities of his native state and warned of the excesses and…
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Calls for an audit of the African-American Arts and Culture Complex came after the nonprofit was consistently late with required reports on the spending of millions in city grant money. The audit found no misuse of funds but identified…
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“(The) gap between the rapid expansion in available titles and slowing revenue growth is creating new pressure across the industry. … More titles are competing for a finite amount of listening time, raising the value of…
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Photo: Karsten Moran/The New York Times/Redux I am standing astride my bicycle, a sapling…
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Silicon Valley’s embrace of improvisation and theater is also part of its much bigger and more longstanding philosophical tendency to treat reality, play, perception and performance as essentially interchangeable. – The New York…
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I grew up in Mexico City, and when people find out that one of my native languages is Yiddish, they think I am pulling their leg. Isn’t that a Jewish language? Mexico? Impossible. Maybe you should write a science fiction novel that…
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The Smithsonian’s Board of Regents voted Monday to house the American Latino museum, which Congress created in 2020 but which has lacked a permanent home, in the Arts and Industries Building, a 258,000-square-foot redbrick Victorian…
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I was 24, had just moved into a share house I couldn’t afford, and my job as a nanny was proving less than ideal. I’d graduated from my music degree a few years prior and was floating along, feeling a little lost.A friend had told me to…
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