Art and Culture

 I don’t know whether the Sphere is the future of live music—it’s very expensive, both to build and attend, and the venue’s path to profitability isn’t clear at all. But I do know this: The Sphere is a mountain. – The Atlantic…
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When I was in college, I came across “The Sea and Poison,” a 1950s novel by Shusaku Endo. It tells the story of a doctor in postwar Japan who, as an intern years earlier, participated in a vivisection experiment on an American prisoner.…
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What happens when a smart TV becomes too smart for its own good? The answer, it seems, is more intrusive advertisements.Last week, Janko Roettgers, a technology and entertainment reporter, uncovered a dystopian patent filed last August…
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At the new gateway to the campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology, you won’t see any robotics or engineering feats on display. Instead, the 180,000-square-foot Student Hall for Exploration and Development offers views into two…
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A market research poll claims to have established that 92 minutes is the “ideal” movie length for American audiences.According to Talker Research (formerly OnePoll US), an online survey conducted in April with 2,000 Americans concluded…
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St. Lawrence String Quartet | Credit: Marco BorggreveJust three weeks after the Alexander String Quartet announced that next season will be its last, the St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ) is bidding its own sad farewell. After 34…
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Congress is bungling tech regulation yet again.Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Shutterstock; Getty.April 29, 2024, 2:25 PM ETEven by the standards of Congress, the past few weeks have been a lesson in hypocrisy. Last Wednesday,…
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The £40,000 Rose International Dance Prize, administered by Sadler’s Wells in London, will be awarded biennially starting in February 2025. As with the Turner, all of the finalists (four have been named for this cycle) will be on…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two Broadway shows celebrating the origins of sonic creativity — the musical “Hell’s Kitchen” fueled by Alicia Keys songs, and the play “Stereophonic” about a ‘70s rock band at the…
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“Less than a week after canceling its 2024 Literary Awards ceremony following months of mounting criticism over the organization’s response to the crisis in Gaza, PEN America has also canceled what would have been the 20th…
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