Art and Culture

The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg paid $293,240 for his 13-panel, four-canvas, 65’x100’ set for Bacchanale, which he called his first “paranoiac-critical ballet” and which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1939. Dalí also…
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EXCLUSIVE: George Clooney told an interviewer a year ago, “I don’t want to be anywhere near the highest-paid actor on Broadway.” Nonetheless, Good Night, and Good Luck’s record-breaking ticket sales last spring helped generate one of…
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. Paul Bloom posted this note on Substack: I’ve always thought that I would never want to read an AI-written novel, no matter how objectively well-written it is. But I’m starting to question this. I’m on a real David…
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At the beginning of On the Nature of Things, a sort of textbook of Epicurean philosophy, the Roman poet Lucretius explains his choice to write in verse by comparing his…
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Arts organisations struggling for financial support could look to a new repayable loan proposal. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)Cash-strapped arts organisations could soon bid for repayable finance from donors through Australia's…
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We now operate in a landscape of cultural abundance – of content, of participation and of alternative platforms for meaning-making (if not direct investment). Yet many institutions continue to move at a different tempo, governed by…
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Melvin Edwards, a sculptor whose assemblages of welded steel and barbed wire nodded toward centuries of violence and reframed the visual language of Minimalism, died on Monday in Baltimore. He was 88, according to his gallery,…
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Patricia Marroquin Norby, the first curator of Native American art ever hired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, quietly left her post in December 2025. Earlier this month, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York posted a job…
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One way of studying literature is through direct experience. You read a book, you observe that it is excellent, and you try to describe the experience of reading it. But there also exist other ways. And one of the most promising new…
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The popularity for Project Hail Mary continues to soar since its massive opening weekend at the box office, which has given oxygen to plenty of social media discourse. Ryan Gosling stars in directors Phil Lord and Christopher…
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