Art and Culture

Broadway is struggling through a postpandemic funk, squeezed between higher production costs and lower audience numbers just as a bevy of new shows set sail into those fierce headwinds. At the same time, New York’s Off Broadway…
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A voice from inside National Public Radio (NPR) is chastising the network for not presenting a…
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Since the death of longtime conductor Michael Morgan in August 2021, guest conductors have led the Oakland Symphony. After three years without permanent leadership, the symphony named 29-year-old Kedrick Armstrong, the creative…
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For decades the effort to revitalize downtown Los Angeles has been tied to arts projects, from the construction of the midcentury modern Music Center in 1964 to the addition of Frank Gehry’s soaring stainless steel Walt Disney Concert…
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In gesprek met Hans Haffmans lichtte De Waart zijn plotselinge keuze toe. "Ik werd gisterochtend om half zes wakker om me klaar te maken voor de repetitie en ik dacht, wat doe ik eigenlijk? Ik stond wankel op mijn benen, en…
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“The new double-sided Scrabble board will still feature the original game. … But the new game on the flip side will include helper cards, use a simpler scoring system and be quicker to play. The new board, Scrabble Together,…
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Trevor Griffiths, who has died aged 88, was the most politically literate working-class dramatist and screenwriter of our times, a scholar of Marx, Gramsci and Trotsky, who translated his passion into a series of plays and television…
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In the late 15th century, when the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci completed “Vitruvian Man” — one of his most famous drawings, which depicts the proportions of the human body — he could not have predicted it would be…
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“The film’s themes struck a chord in a country where dissent had been criminalized and fear of arbitrary arrest was pervasive. … Still, the backlash was swift. Putin’s propagandists … denounced (Michael Lockshin) as a traitor to…
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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. A trip to the Taj Mahal is a must for any tourist visiting India. Each year, millions travel to the town of Agra in the state of Uttar…
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