Art and Culture

The faculty “protested Saturday night outside the UCLA Hammer Museum’s celebrity-heavy gala, calling for amnesty to be granted to pro-Palestinian students arrested on campus this week and demanding that Chancellor Gene Block…
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Today’s language translation apps are like self-driving cars: incredibly useful, promising, nearing maturity, and almost entirely powered by machines. It's astonishing that the technology even exists.Even so, machine translation is still…
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Frank Stella, whose laconic pinstripe “black paintings” of the late 1950s closed the door on Abstract Expressionism and pointed the way to an era of cool minimalism, died on Saturday at his home in the West Village of Manhattan. He was…
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Han shot first.As we celebrate the most hallowed of holidays — May the Fourth, also known as “Star Wars Day” because, you know, “may the Force be with you” — let us all agree that a long time ago, in a galaxy that now feels very far away…
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This beautiful painting by Nicolas Poussin has for centuries bamboozled art historians, who can’t decide whether it’s showing the birth of Venus or the triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite.Debates like this are the marrow of the specialist…
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Snehal Desai. (Photo by Kim Newmoney) L.A.’s biggest theatre is back in the ring after nearly a year on the ropes. Announcing a new subscription season under the banner “One CTG,” Center Theatre Group is banking on its unified…
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Pro-Palestine activists staged a demonstration during the Whitney’s “Free Friday Night” event on Friday, May 3. (all photos Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) The fifth floor of the Whitney Museum of…
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SAG-AFTRA has cut a deal with the measurement and analytics firm Nielsen to be a third-party provider of streaming content measurement. The Nielsen data — from its Streaming Content Ratings service — will “complement…
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It’s all too “easy to imagine the potential carnage: scammers targeting parents by using their children’s voice to ask for money, a nefarious October surprise from a dirty political trickster.”  – The Atlantic (MSN) Source link…
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Stereophonic. Photo: Julieta Cervantes This is the latest edition of The…
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