Art and Culture

A coalition of Hollywood unions is leaning on Congress to enact a federal film tax credit, citing new research that highlights the heavy outflow of productions from the U.S.For decades, television was the part of Hollywood that stayed…
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Good Morning, Theaster Gates, the artist whose installations sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, has bought Pickard China, the last U.S. maker of high-end porcelain: a 12-person factory in Antioch, Illinois, producing a…
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The Bayeux Tapestry tells many stories. As an artefact, its very history goes from post-Conquest drama and then medieval obscurity, through the French Wars of Religion and the Revolution, to the German occupation and now the…
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Or Matias, Leah Nanako Winkler, and Duncan Sheik (© Michaelah Reynolds/Tricia Baron) In 2020, Leah Nanako Winkler was hired to do something she’d never done before: write a musical. Born in Japan and raised in Kentucky,…
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America was an empty mall. America was shoddy caulk oozing from a vinyl arc in a historic heatwave. America was a brutishly redacted Frederick Douglass speech on foam posterboard in a tractor trailer Freedom Truck. America was not even…
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For over four decades, Anne Carson has been quietly redrawing the map of contemporary literature. Poet, translator, classicist, essayist, performer and visual artist, she has produced a body of work that refuses easy categorisation.…
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Audiobook walking clubs are now emerging around the country, turning an activity typically enjoyed solo into a low-pressure social event. For about an hour, everyone listens to a book of their choosing as they walk, then gathers…
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Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch. Photo: B Lenoir/ShutterstockConservative leader Kemi Badenoch has revealed that her party plans to cut budgets extensively if it wins the next election, including slashing £1bn from the Department…
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“So far, none of the musicians have encountered collapsing concrete garage decks, falling 2,500-pound roof sections or ‘electrical explosions’ — risks the center’s management says lurk everywhere.” – The New York Times Source…
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The Canadian poet, essayist, and translator of ancient Greek drama was cited “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.” – AP…
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