Art and Culture

A Canadian journalist is defending his decision to travel the U.S. in blackface and write a book about racism, after facing a storm of criticism online."Last summer, I disguised myself as a Black man and traveled throughout the United…
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At the opening of Richmond Ballet’s Studio Three series this month, Stoner Winslett gave one of her very last curtain speeches. “I am still the artistic director of Richmond Ballet,” she quipped in the introduction. The audience burst…
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When Melissa Chiu began her tenure as the director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 10 years ago, she had a stray thought about the institution’s location, on the National Mall, and its appearance, a doughnut-shaped concrete…
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PARIS (AP) — An environmental activist was detained Saturday after sticking a protest sign to a Monet painting in Paris’ famed Orsay Museum.It was the latest of several actions by protesters with…
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My family has a piano. Its keys are weathered from touch. It has tiny marks on the top right corner where my dad used to gnaw at the wood with his baby teeth.I always knew this instrument to be special. It felt out of place in our…
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4 days agoNewsDuration3:15Les Grands Ballets and the National Centre for Dance Therapy recently performed their fourth 'relaxed' ballet, a show adapted and performed for autistic children and adults, single mothers, mentally impaired…
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Animal Well also comes at a turbulent time for the game industry. Outfits like Gastrow’s and developers like Basso are getting hit hard. Every month this year has included new headline-making layoffs at big game companies, while smaller…
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2 days agoWedaeli Chibelushi,BBC News, LondonLarkin DureyAboudia's work has been shown in exhibitions held in Abidjan, London, New York and Tel AvivBack in September, global art experts were taken aback by the name topping a fresh list…
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The first transgender woman to be awarded the best actress prize at the Cannes film festival filed a legal complaint on Wednesday over a “sexist insult” from a far-right politician after her win.Karla Sofía Gascón and co-stars jointly…
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The bustling Nigerian film industry known as Nollywood certainly keeps directors busy: In the past decade, Daniel Oriahi has made over 25 movies. But the filmmaker hit a new career breakthrough when the Tribeca Festival accepted his…
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