Art and Culture

“Creation and healing are the same energy; they transform pain rather than being destroyed by it.”–Shaun McNiff* I have a curious double professional identity. I am both a novelist and a therapist; both a teller of tales, and a…
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NEW YORK — As a boy, I never had much regard for the story books written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter in the first decades of the 20th century. Her watercolors were treacly and her tales too simple-minded and rustic. I lived in a…
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The WNET Group in New York, which oversees the flagship public TV station and NJ PBS, among other properties, is facing job cuts and staff restructuring. In a staff memo Tuesday acquired by Current, WNET CEO Neal Shapiro outlined…
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From the April 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. I’m in Paris, watching as a parade of Orientalist paintings appear, move then vanish from the walls of what was once a steel foundry. There are shisha smokers,…
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With hits like Dune: Part Two, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Kung Fu Panda 4, the domestic box office may finally be shaking off the ashes from the double strikes, now counting close to $1.8 billion, with moviegoing gaining…
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In increasingly turbulent times for the music industry, one aspect has remained steadfast: its passion for stats. At the start of the decade – with YouTube a strong metric of success after the collapse of CD sales – you couldn’t move for…
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Culture is a pendulum swinging back and forth between tail ends of a spectrum. If the previous decade saw conservative politics, liberalism is on the forefront; if the starlets of yesteryear were curvy, today’s will be skinny; if…
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“You need to work on your face.” I am neither an actor nor a clown and certainly not a model—I teach literature at a university. Far from friendly advice from a colleague, these were serious…
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by Mark HarveyDon’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book…  —President Dwight Eisenhower, 1953Andrew…
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