Art and Culture

After a curtain call at a recent performance of “Hamilton,” Trey Curtis, who stars as Alexander Hamilton, put his arm around J. Quinton Johnson, who had played George Washington. They basked in the applause, shared a laugh and walked…
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Portland State University is beginning an effort to make its campus more distinctive, which will include adding better signs and other indications that you are on the PSU campus. Photo by: Amanda Waldroupe It is easy to be on…
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May 31, 2024, 11:46am In more troubling news for human writers, OpenAI announced deals with Vox Media and The Atlantic this Wednesday. In a statement on their site, Atlantic CEO…
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Jac Venza, a shoemaker’s son who almost single-handedly delivered to the proverbial “vast wasteland” that was American television in the 1960s and ’70s an oasis of cultural programming, including “Great Performances” and “Live From…
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Lucy Yu wasn’t sure if she had smoke in her lungs or was having an anxiety attack. She needed fresh air.Five days earlier, on the Fourth of July, she had raced out of her bookstore in Manhattan’s Chinatown as it filled with smoke. A fire…
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Kahana Ho and Stuart Featheran Jr. in "Kāmau Aʻe" at at Kumu Kahua Theatre. (Photo from Kumu Kahua) In 1972, the first Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture, then called the South Pacific Festival of Arts, was held in Fiji. The…
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Harman also pointed me to a moment in “The Castle,” an unfinished novel published after Kafka’s death, in which the antihero K. tries to phone that bureaucratic fortress. “At first, he hears only what sounds like high-pitched singing,”…
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Arts Engines highlights the perspectives of the thought leaders and game-changers who are creating significant impact in the field of the arts. As the only arts show of its kind with an African-American host, it is produced in…
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“The Forman Arts Initiative, an arts organization that awards grants to local creatives and arts nonprofits, plans to renovate four buildings on American Street (in West Kensington). The multipurpose space will hold a gallery,…
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s congress voted Tuesday to ban bullfights in the South American nation, delivering a serious blow to a centuries-old tradition that has inspired famous songs and…
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