Art and Culture

At least 1,000 paintings that the artist Damien Hirst said were “made in 2016” were created several years later, the Guardian can reveal.Hirst produced 10,000 of the paintings, each comprising colourful hand-painted dots on A4 paper, as…
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Most people watching TV are older than those groups. Among cable channels, the median age for TNT and Bravo viewers is 56, for HGTV it is 66, and even the once-youthful MTV’s median-age viewer is 51, according to Nielsen data. The cable…
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Levitt Pavilion’s stage unfolds like a silvery jewel box, its three open sides facing a massive green that has hosted thousands of music fans since 2017.Most of them didn’t pay a dime to get in.The nonprofit organization’s hundreds of…
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A Minneapolis woman is suing the Walker Art Center after an employee, apparently ill-informed on the museum’s policies, allegedly told her she could not breastfeed her infant in a gallery.   Megan Mzenga visited the…
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15 hours agoBy Leisha Chi-Santorelli,BBC News CultureGetty ImagesGerman author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofman at The International Booker Prize 2024 in LondonGerman writer Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann…
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In the never-ending, fruitless search for economy, actors are being replaced by algorithms When the arts chooses to go algorithmic, careers die. (Digging a new grave at Blunsdon Cemetery by Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia…
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NEW YORK (AP) — OpenAI on Monday said it plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices that “Her” actor Scarlett Johansson says sounds “eerily similar” to her own.In a post on the social…
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The Church of Intercession rises on West Harlem’s vibrant 155th Street with an ornate gothic heft. A less conspicuous feature of the 110-year-old gargantuan Episcopal sanctuary is its small underground crypt. There, curved arches and a…
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On Feb. 11, 2023, the choreographer Marco Goecke cornered a dance critic, Wiebke Hüster, during intermission of a performance at the Hanover State Opera in northern Germany. After asking her about negative reviews that she had written…
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Last year, the city of Leeds held a year-long celebration of culture, complete with festivals, newly commissioned works of art and community projects. More than 1,000 events took place, with hundreds of volunteers and local schools…
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