Art and Culture

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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“The best is still to come this week,” said Christie’s chief executive, Guillaume Cerutti, at the auction house’s post-sale press conference for its evening auctions on Tuesday (14 May). Last night, Cerutti was proved right, with the…
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Many readers have responded to a series of recent blogs in which I’ve pondered the bewildering appointment of Klaus Makela, age 28, to become music director of the Chicago Symphony beginning in 2027. Some have expressed…
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The Executive Director (ED) will serve as the chief executive officer of the Windsor Historical Society and will be a strategic and people-oriented executive who values community engagement and leads with a clear sense of purpose and…
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If giving people money encourages them to create, then surely giving them more money would encourage them to create more music, right? The answer is actually no. Throughout music history, copyright’s incentive has often been dialed up…
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After that, why did you leave Manhattan?I decided, OK, it’s time to move to Brooklyn. The critical mass of artists and people interested in this work are in Brooklyn now. And when I walked into that space, it was like when I walked into…
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Inner speech is mysterious and hard to study. But movie voiceovers and introspective novels offer fresh ways to understand itIn a scene from the movie Adaptation (2002), Nicolas Cage, playing the writer Charlie Kaufman, sits in front of…
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Six in 10 of all arts and culture workers in the UK now come from middle-class backgrounds, compared with just over 42% of the wider workforce, according to new research.And while 23% of the UK workforce is from a working-class…
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Opera Australia (OA) has released its 2023 Annual Report, revealing an overall operating loss of $4.9m. In the previous financial year – one bolstered by a $10m booster shot in the form of a NSW Government COVID Support Package – OA…
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The diss tracks flying back and forth between Drake and Kendrick Lamar have set the online and offline world aflame. But rappers aren’t the only creative people who get into serious disputes.…
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