Art and Culture

TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. My guest today, actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, has played a national security adviser on "The West Wing," a matriarch on "Black-Ish" and a…
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Financed by public subscription, powered by photography and P.R., the Statue of Liberty is now so identified with her adopted home that she has all but melted into symbol. – The New York Times Source link
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Spotify has removed more than 500,000 registered streams from Malcolm Todd‘s Earrings, after the song’s rise to No. 1 on the platform’s daily US chart was tied to bets placed on the prediction market Kalshi.Kalshi is a US prediction…
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More than a decade ago, while on research fellowship at the British Library, I used to while away off-hours at the various pubs in King’s Cross, including a slightly dissolute bar on Cromer Street where in between mysterious…
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America250: A scholar of American musical history reflects on Niagara, a symphony that connects centuries of our nation’s cultural life The only thing ‘fixed’ about American identity, musical or otherwise, is that it remains…
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Good Morning, Happy 250th. Fitting that today’s stories keep circling the question the country has never settled: what is American culture, and who gets to say? There’s a case for George Bristow’s “Niagara” — a choral…
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Jamir Nazir has become the face of the AI-writing crisis. In May, the largely unknown 62-year-old Trinidadian writer was named a regional winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Prize for his short story “The Serpent in the Grove.” But…
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When my feature documentary Motherboard was released, I was in my late 50s. I had filmed it over 20 years, on five generations of smartphones, documenting the pain, joy and comedy of raising my son Jim alone. When I became pregnant…
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Read more Featured Stories like this in The Strad Playing Hub Vijay Gupta had played Carnegie Hall as a child, studied at Juilliard and Yale, and joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic when he was only 19, making him one of the youngest…
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Across Europe, many Jewish museums have seen visitor numbers drop, patrons back away and security threats rise since the fall of 2023. The association’s members also reported online harassment, vandalism and acts of aggression against…
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