Art and Culture

While a student in The Juilliard School’s Dance Division, Madi Hicks struggled to get through two classes: music and ballroom dance. “I’m tone-deaf. And I don’t count music well,” she says. Though now a successful choreographer and…
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Barbara Hannigan conducts the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (Photo: Leifur Wilberg) The Iceland Symphony Orchestra (ISO) has announced the appointment of Barbara Hannigan as their Chief Conductor and Artistic Director. She’ll take up…
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“Oakland playwright Jonathan Spector jokes that if his satire Best Available had a trigger warning, it would be ‘realistic portrayals of working in nonprofit theater.’ … To write the show, Spector … interviewed…
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When it comes to not falling for misinformation, being aware of our human fallibilities, such as our quickness to believe what we want to believe, is a good first step. – BBC Source link
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Do you consider yourself more of a music person or a lyrics person, and why? – Dirt Source link
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New York City —  Pat Swinney Kaufman may have enough ceremonial shovels in her office to start her own small construction firm.As commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, based above the Ed Sullivan…
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“Cézanne doesn’t cut it.”When I heard Peter utter this sentence at a dinner party, I knew I was in over my head.Peter, at these dinners, where no one was shy with opinions, would sit tolerantly, head tucked in, allowing us all to…
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Once a repository of amateur videos, the service owned by Alphabet’s Google has grown into a streaming behemoth with full-length films, highly produced series, sports highlights and live events. – The Wall Street Journal Source…
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It is not a good week for an auction house to suffer a technological failure, but that is what Christie’s is facing as it prepares for its marquee New York auctions of Modern, contemporary,…
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Lily Tung Crystal, the incoming artistic director of East West Players, at the David Henry Hwang Theater in downtown Los Angeles. (Emanuel Hahn / For The Times) East West Players has appointed its next…
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