Art and Culture

Six in 10 of all arts and culture workers in the UK now come from middle-class backgrounds, compared with just over 42% of the wider workforce, according to new research.And while 23% of the UK workforce is from a working-class…
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Opera Australia (OA) has released its 2023 Annual Report, revealing an overall operating loss of $4.9m. In the previous financial year – one bolstered by a $10m booster shot in the form of a NSW Government COVID Support Package – OA…
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The diss tracks flying back and forth between Drake and Kendrick Lamar have set the online and offline world aflame. But rappers aren’t the only creative people who get into serious disputes.…
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We own a 60-year-old house, which isn’t terribly old by most standards. It was built with quality materials and went through a couple of updates before my husband and I bought it back in 2012. It’s a beautiful home but needs…
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Theory of mind batteryWe selected a set of well-established theory of mind tests spanning different abilities: the hinting task14, the false belief task11,33, the recognition of faux pas13, and the strange stories15,16. We also included…
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president took a swipe at the Eurovision Song Contest on Monday, accusing the annual event of allegedly encouraging “gender neutralization” and threatening the…
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Portrait of HENRY TANG, chairman of Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, at the Election Forum on the Rule of Law and Core Values in December 2012. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Henry Tang, chairman of…
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Russian court on Monday opened the trial of a theater director and a playwright accused of advocating terrorism in a play, the latest step in an unrelenting crackdown on…
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Had he still been a daytime anchor on MSNBC, Carlos Watson would no doubt have spent Monday marshaling reports about the Trump hush-money trial in downtown Manhattan.Instead, Watson was on the other side of the East River, sitting as a…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two top editors at Penguin Random House are leaving as the country’s leading trading publisher continues to transform during a period of uncertain revenues and generational…
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