Art and Culture

Any day that a museum is handed a seven-figure gift is a very good day. But for the Orlando Museum of Art, which recently received a $1.8 million bequest from the estate of Margaret Young, that gift couldn’t have come at a better…
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Honestly, who knew this was a thing? Yet: Kerry Samantha Boyes “now has her own fake food store and studio set-up in south-west Scotland with an ever-growing list of illustrious clients all around the world.” – BBC Source link
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The quaint, pastoral setting for Anne of Green Gables may not be what comes to mind when you imagine a steamy, sex-filled romance novel.Same goes for a coffee shop on the busy streets of Toronto, or a lakeside cottage in Barry's Bay,…
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May 17, 2024, 12:06pm Since the 1930s, the annual Cannes international film festival has been a glamorous hub for new cinema. (And, according to an audacious claim on its website: the…
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Giovanni Pernice, a professional dancer on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, said “he is ‘surprised’ by media reports about his teaching methods and rejects ‘any suggestion of abusive or threatening behaviour.’” – BBC Source link
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And now it’s trying to fix that mistake with a new exhibition. – Los Angeles Times (MSN) Source link
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The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis announced a financial deficit Thursday, when the theater released its annual report for fiscal year 2023, acknowledging a $3.8 million deficit.  The deficit represents nearly 12 percent of the operating…
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They changed our parents’ and grandparents’ lives by using technology to tackle the curse of household drudgery. Thanks to the vacuum cleaner, fridge, washing machine and microwave, the lives of householders were transformed in a few…
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Netflix and Prime joined broadcast channels for the traditional week of wooing advertisers – and for good reason: “Streaming video now makes up 37% of U.S. television viewing, better than either broadcast or cable TV, according to…
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Any biographical movie—”biopic,” in the popular shorthand—has one question it must answer about its subject well before the cameras start rolling: Why do we care about this person? Biopics of musicians, especially beloved…
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