Art and Culture

Jack Scollard and Jordan Hearns are the founders of Smut Press, a publishing project that provides a platform for queer artists, and where the ghosts, aspirations and adventures of night-time loom large.The two London-based Irish artists…
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This morning, the Seattle Public Library (SPL) announced 180 days of library closures from April 12 to…
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Artists, writers and film-makers have expressed their fears for the future of Scottish culture following the closure of a film project, a book festival and an art magazine within days of each other.On 28 March the Glasgow book festival…
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In a room inside a Liverpool gallery, Saskia Pay, a young British actor dressed in studiedly ordinary jeans and top, is sitting on a chair in front of a camera. The guy with the camera, Ukrainian artist Andrii Dostliev, briefs a trio of…
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I’ve never heard gunshots like the ones in Civil War. Or, rather, I’ve never heard them in a movie. If you’ve ever been to a firing range, or just lived in a city for a while, you know the sound, a dry, brittle snap so unlike…
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No sirens blared outside Red Bear Brewing Co. last week. No caution tape closed off the patio outside the bar. No cops roamed, no evidence was gathered, no patrons were turned away.Yet a crime had occurred.By the time The Washington Post…
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Even now, “some employees, particularly female employees, continue to feel unsafe. A current member of the orchestra told me about an incident this past February in which her male colleagues spoke negatively about Asian women…
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I keep hearing people call the Whitney Biennial “safe.” It’s usually art-world people and critics, who tend to say it every two years, as if the museum has ever intentionally sought controversy or embraced radical…
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A century after she first began to turn heads, Clara Bow is “It” once more. The iconic flapper of the silent film era inspired Margot Robbie’s character Nellie in Damien Chazelle’s Hollywood epic Babylon, is namechecked on Taylor…
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Four librarians in Prattville, Ala., have lost their jobs over book challenges. Now one of them wants his job back. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: It's National Library Week, but in Prattville, Ala.,…
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