Art and Culture

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as “The New York Trilogy” and “4 3 2 1,” has died at age…
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Two members of the New York Philharmonic dumped for the second time over a 14-year-old rape allegation want the country’s most prestigious orchestra and their union to face the music. The orchestra’s associate principal…
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During all of the years that the Olympics gave out medals in arts, not just athletics — and if you didn’t know about that, the rest of this article may hold more surprises — the pinnacle came in Paris, 100 years ago this summer.The gold…
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Gustavo Dudamel at the Opéra Garnier, Paris, April 15, 2021. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP On May 25, 2023, Gustavo Dudamel stepped down as music director of the Opéra de Paris, just two years…
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“Historic houses across the United States are targeted for teardowns every week, often under cover of night with little to no warning. Increasingly, preservationists say, these demolitions are not driven by changing tastes but…
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During a break on a recent TV shoot, a co-star asked Amy Brenneman about her latest stage role: Miriam of Nazareth, best known as the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus. In response, the actor — who was born to a Jewish mother, raised in a…
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Outside peak tourist season, there’s something a little uncanny about Stratford-upon-Avon, the English market town famous as William Shakespeare’s birthplace and home. On a visit last week, with only a trickle of foreign sightseers and a…
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Emily Lankiewicz / Vesuvius Challenge When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it covered the ancient cities…
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When Soudade Kaadan embarked on the journey to make a film about her war-torn home city of Damascus, she was burdened by “certain expectations as to how a Syrian film should look”.“They want us to simplify the complexity of the Syrian…
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Illustration by Beppe Giacobbe Salman Rushdie’s 22nd book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, is his account of the attack on 12 August 2022…
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