Art and Culture

The first thing to understand about Phylicia Rashad, the outgoing dean of Howard University’s Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts — as opposed to Phylicia Rashad the two-time Tony-winning actress and TV mom emerita — is that she…
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 My Wall Street Journal review of Kurt Jensen’s new Rouben Mamoulian biography takes stock of a unique near-genius, perhaps the least known and appreciated American theater and film director of consequence.   I came to Mamoulian…
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This afternoon, May 8, during a monthly all-staff meeting, 10 employees of Maryland’s Glenstone Museum read a letter announcing their intent to unionize. The workers represent around 100 hourly staff members — half…
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For good and bad reasons, on and off the red carpet, the spotlight is trained on women in the run-up to the Cannes film festival this week. As the cream of female film talent, including Hollywood’s Meryl Streep and Britain’s Andrea…
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In early March, Indigenous artist Danielle SeeWalker posted a new painting to her Instagram: A woman in profile, her face grayed out except one eye staring directly at the viewer — a signature of SeeWalker’s painted works. The…
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Legendary B-movie king Roger Corman, who directed and produced hundreds of low-budget films and discovered such future industry stars as Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, has died. He was 98. Corman died May 9 at…
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Nearly five decades into her career, courtroom artist Christine Cornell has become well acquainted with the darker aspects of humanity — she’s drawn murderers and mobsters, financiers turned swindlers and celebrities cleared of…
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Colm Tóibín does not approve of sequels. “It would have been a disaster if Pride and Prejudice had a sequel. It would have been a disaster if Ulysses had a sequel. Imagine!” the Irish novelist exclaims from his study in Columbia…
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May 10, 2024, 1:28pm Yesterday afternoon, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead (The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys) announced that he would no longer be…
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In April, Heritage Auctions heralded the discovery of the original model of the U.S.S. Enterprise, the iconic starship that whooshed through the stars in the opening credits of the 1960s TV series “Star Trek” but had mysteriously…
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