Art and Culture

If you attended the 2019 Venice Biennale, you might have waited in a long line to see the prize-winning piece “Sun & Sea (Marina),” an opera performance staged by three Lithuanian artists on a sandy faux beach that had been installed…
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When YouTube launched nearly two decades ago, its first clip was a grainy video of co-founder Jawed Karim speaking to the camera while standing in front of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo. Not exactly must-see TV. Since, then the…
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“I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‘call attention to yourself,’ or ‘think you were smart,’ ” Alice Munro, who died on Monday, at age ninety-two, once said. She rebelled against this edict, of course, but…
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Gina Rinehart, Australia’s wealthiest person, is less than thrilled about a recent painting of her being exhibited at one of Australia’s largest art museums. But her reported attempts to get the unflattering portrait taken down is…
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"Approved" stamped on a loan application formgetty It is their money, and they need it now. Although New York’s tax credit program offering up $3 million to each new musical and play has been lauded as a lifeline for the struggling…
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Fresh from his conquering of awards season, Cillian Murphy is the current leading man du jour. Strange then, that his follow-up to “Oppenheimer” still hasn’t secured a U.S. release. “Small Things Like These,” based on the novella…
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Two architects, both graduates of Wright’s School of Architecture at Taliesin West in Arizona, have designed nine kit houses based closely on Wright’s designs, but with higher ceilings, larger grids, and bigger kitchens than…
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“Across cultures, (an international team of 75) researchers found, songs share certain features not found in speech, suggesting that Darwin might have been right: Despite its diversity today, music might have evolved in our…
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CANNES, France (AP) — Before Judith Godrèche kickstarted a #MeToo wave in the French industry, she was one of the first prominent actors to go on the record against Harvey Weinstein. Godrèche was…
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Another public media outlet is instituting layoffs and job cuts to offset a budget shortage. San…
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