Art and Culture

Kahana Ho and Stuart Featheran Jr. in "Kāmau Aʻe" at at Kumu Kahua Theatre. (Photo from Kumu Kahua) In 1972, the first Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture, then called the South Pacific Festival of Arts, was held in Fiji. The…
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Harman also pointed me to a moment in “The Castle,” an unfinished novel published after Kafka’s death, in which the antihero K. tries to phone that bureaucratic fortress. “At first, he hears only what sounds like high-pitched singing,”…
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Arts Engines highlights the perspectives of the thought leaders and game-changers who are creating significant impact in the field of the arts. As the only arts show of its kind with an African-American host, it is produced in…
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“The Forman Arts Initiative, an arts organization that awards grants to local creatives and arts nonprofits, plans to renovate four buildings on American Street (in West Kensington). The multipurpose space will hold a gallery,…
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s congress voted Tuesday to ban bullfights in the South American nation, delivering a serious blow to a centuries-old tradition that has inspired famous songs and…
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Last summer, a book changed Kohn Glay’s life.A TikTok ad had steered him to “The Shadow Work Journal,” a slim workbook that directs readers to explore hidden parts of their unconscious — their shadow selves, in the book’s vernacular. He…
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Twenty months into the global focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and its increasing presence in daily life, the nature and scale of the AI challenge to artists and art institutions, and to academics seeking transparent access to…
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Critic Bilge Ebiri, who’s been advocating for such an award for years, walks through, and takes down, the arguments that have for decades been put up against a Best Stunts Oscar. Then he recounts an anecdote that points to the…
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In 1913, on the last day of the history-making Armory Show exhibition of Modern art at the Art Institute of Chicago, a group of students gathered on the portico to stage a mock trial for one…
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May 28, 2024 Last summer, I agreed to…
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