Art and Culture

David Adjmi did not intend to re-enter the world of theater. With a handful of credits under his belt, Adjmi had sworn off playwriting after a high-stakes collaboration fell apart. Then, as he sought to fulfill one…
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French post office La Poste has introduced a stamp designed by Stéphane Humbert-Basset that gives off the scent of bread when scratched to celebrate the baguette. The stamp has a "bakery scent", which was achieved through the use of…
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Australia’s richest portrait prize has quietly disappeared.The Archibald may be the country’s oldest and loudest, but at $150,000 – and $1,000 for each of the 30 annual finalists – the Doug Moran national portrait prize has been by far…
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Van Gogh’s pleasures at home were smoking his pipe and drinking coffee. This explains the prominent coffee pot depicted in a still life made in the kitchen of the Yellow House. He had bought the pot just a few days earlier, to help equip…
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The sequence is emblematic of a significant shift in how Asian languages are featured in American film and TV.Just a few years ago, when his Korean dark comedy “Parasite” won the 2020 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, the…
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The past decade has witnessed a notable rise in the deployment of outrageous speech and censorship: opposite tendencies, on the face of things, which actually strengthen each other’s claim. My aim in this…
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When The Texas Tribune began reaching out to residents in the Cloverleaf neighborhood, near Houston, its reporters knew many community members were not regular readers. In fact, most in the primarily Spanish-speaking area hadn’t heard…
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Adam Aron, the CEO of AMC Theatres, gives me a choice. We’re supposed to have a 20-minute interview in Las Vegas at CinemaCon, a four-day gathering of movie theater owners and Hollywood studios designed to breathlessly hype the…
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Listen to this articleProduced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.It is nighttime in Paris. We are more than a year into Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, and tonight, her fans are once again trying to figure out what her…
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A recent study has shed light on the significance of coordinated body movements, especially collective dances, in conveying coalition quality (the perceived effectiveness, formidability, and social bonding strength of a group). The…
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