Art and Culture

Author Jonathan Haidt on TodayEvery generation of adults thinks the next is growing up in a broken world. “It is the story of humanity,” says Jonathan Haidt, author of a new book on a youth mental illness epidemic called The Anxious…
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Sarah Snook in The Picture of Dorian Gray at the Theatre Royal Haymarket (2024). Photo: Marc BrennerTwo decades ago, theatre audiences had never experienced live video on stage. It is a craft that has since exploded in popularity and…
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For the first time in many years, a teacher was correcting my handwriting.“Go more slowly,” Laura Edralin, a calligraphy teacher in London, told me, as she walked around a table of beginners on a recent Wednesday night, explaining how to…
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‘Since I was little, I’ve always been told that I am the weird one,” says Rocío Molina. “Like an alien,” she adds, speaking through a translator over video call from Spain. Weird in the world of flamenco, she means, where Molina is, at…
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OpenAI announced pacts with two more media companies — Vox Media and The Atlantic — to license their content for the ChatGPT artificial-intelligence chatbot. Under the deals, the companies also will work with OpenAI on a range of…
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In Chicago, San Francisco and Boston, these groups are adopting unique organizational and financial structures to survive in overheated real estate markets. These arts models give artists more control over their place within these…
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The volume of film and video being produced in Southern California is still far below what it was before last year’s writers’ and actors’ strikes — and the professionals who work on the camera, sound, lighting, makeup…
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Evening Standard newspapers on the streets. Picture: Reuters The Evening Standard intends to go from a daily print schedule to weekly, its directors…
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Audra McDonald has been dreaming of “Gypsy” since she was a 10-year-old in Fresno, Calif., with a small part in a dinner theater production of the musical. She played one of the children in a vaudeville act called “Uncle Jocko’s Kiddie…
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“(He) had admitted arranging sex acts with someone he thought was a teenager, but was in fact an undercover police officer. … On Tuesday, the 70-year-old was given a 14-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.”…
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