Art and Culture

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Aaron Timms, a writer and critic, was standing in a corner at TJ Byrnes, an Irish pub in New York’s financial district, explaining…
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Netflix said that it would not raise its offer to counter a higher bid made earlier this week by Mr. Ellison’s company, Paramount Skydance, saying in a statement that “the deal is no longer financially attractive.” – The New York…
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Netflix drops out of the competition to buy Warner, saying Paramount’s offer was too rich (NYT). Hard to be happy for either of these bidders as the sale will further concentrate ownership of the media landscape. BBC Radio 3…
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Pianist Yuja Wang today made public an email sent to her by writer, critic and Radio 3 presenter Norman LeBrecht, and her response that accuses the journalist of “derogatory misogynistic bullying”.Lebrecht had written to the musician…
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Each year, as Canadians sit down to watch the Juno Awards — this year airing live on CBC and CBC Gem on March 29 — it’s worth thinking about how award shows are never just simple celebrations. National arts award ceremonies like…
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Alexander Lingas Conducts Cappella Romana in Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia at the Early Music Festival Utrecht. Photo courtesy of Cappella Romana. As Alexander Lingas beheld the shattered remains of San Francisco’s Annunciation…
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Many people around the world were cooped up at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, but few had the same good fortune as Charlotte Meyer, who spent some of her unexpected downtime after a house move going through a folder of…
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I vividly remember my first meeting with György Kurtág. It was 40 or so years ago at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, Cornwall. I was sitting in the dining hall there, when a man with grizzled hair and an unusually…
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Tampa Bay Times journalist Lauren Peace is a fan of her local bookshop, Book and Bottle, a “bookstore with wine and a wine shop with books” (and coffee!). At one of the store’s book club events, Peace had a lightbulb moment. “The…
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I recognised the signs straight away: the twirling, the mirror glances, the obsession with her music box. I didn’t need my daughter to ask if I wanted to see her “magic dance show” to confirm it – she was a dance kid.Despite efforts to…
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