Art and Culture

In the pre-dawn hours of March 18, 1990, following a festive St. Patrick’s Day in Boston, two men dressed as police officers walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and walked off with an estimated $500 million in art treasures.…
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This week, Spotify announced a new feature to let audiobook authors and publishers tease their new releases. Countdown Pages, which debuted for music artists last year and has been used by the likes of Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift, let…
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- Whenever bestselling author Robin Cook releases a new medical thriller, the head of the public library in West Haven knows demand for digital copies will be high. So will the price.Like many libraries, West Haven has…
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NEW YORK — Two women stare directly at the viewer with such intensity that you hardly notice the thing that had just engaged them, perhaps moments before the artist captured their likeness. The young woman on the right holds an open book…
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Germany’s culture ministry and Unesco commission have added Berlin’s techno scene to the country’s list of intangible cultural heritage, in recognition of the scene’s contribution to the cultural identity of the city.Berlin’s…
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There are only two reasons to get into book publishing: the books (that’s how they get us formerly idealistic English majors) and the people (the other weirdos who also got gotten by the books). These people are famously overworked and…
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Photo: Patrick Redmond/Netflix For years, I have cheerfully covered the Netflix Christmas…
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The dynamic divas of Girls5eva are back for Season 3, which debuted (along with the first two seasons of the show) on its new home at Netflix this week, bringing with it the undeniably catchy songs that have helped to make this gem of a…
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The Federal Communications Commission this week voted to raise its internet speed benchmark for the first time since January 2015, concluding that modern broadband service should provide at least 100 Mbps download speeds and 20 Mbps…
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Canada's independent cinema industry is in crisis, its owners say, as they face mounting challenges from streaming services and restrictive Hollywood studio rules.Sixty per cent of independent movie theatre operators were at a loss at…
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