Art and Culture

As part of the £1.5 million research partnership, Humanise said it wants to “challenge the ‘blandemic’ of dull, soulless development” and improve the way the UK designs and builds its urban environments. –…
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The winners in each of the five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature—will be announced at an awards ceremony on November 18. – Publishers Weekly Source link
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Good Morning, Thieves took the 330-pound bronze cover of Dalí’s Livre de l’Apocalypse, inlaid with precious stones and seashells, from a museum in Issoire, France, overnight Sunday, and police can’t say how they moved it unnoticed.…
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The novel is set in an America partitioned into two factions: the Dakota Membership, presumably made up of North and South Dakota, and Still United, an agglomeration of other states of the former U.S. The Dakota Membership, ruled by…
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On Thursday, October 8, at around 1:00 p.m. CEST, all eyes in the literary world will be set on Stockholm.  That's when the new permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Ingrid Carlberg, will hold a press conference to announce the…
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She is now artistic director of the Webern Kammerphilharmonie, the training orchestra of Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts. Currently, she is also artistic director of the Polish National Radio Symphony, chief conductor…
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“In the 1980s Margot Fonteyn told me her technique as Britain’s most celebrated ballerina was far inferior to that of any young dancer starting out in the Eighties. ‘And today the technical accomplishment is far greater than it was 40…
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“Elizabeth Williamson, … 47, currently serves as artistic director of Geva Theatre in Rochester, N.Y., and previously held leadership positions at Hartford Stage in Connecticut and Pioneer Theatre Company in Utah.” – San Francisco…
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“People used to compare the experience of watching prestige TV shows like The Sopranos to reading a great Victorian novel. By the same token, we can say that watching a microdrama is like being electrocuted onstage at the circus.” But…
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Thieves have made off with a 150kg (330lb) book cover designed by Salvador Dalí from a French museum.The bronze cover of Livre de l'Apocalypse – also known as the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse of St John – was stolen from the…
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