Art and Culture

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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Jason Moore, who has restaged and updated the show for London: “Once I revisited, I was like, ‘Oh, right, we made this in our 20s,’ and it’s for people in their 20s. There’s now a whole generation of people who … know…
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The discovery of lead during renovation work at Paris’s historic Palais Garnier—opened in 1875 and summoned as inspiration for Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera (and even more famously for Andrew Lloyd…
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“(He) often acted as a kind of Indiana Jones of song, as when he helped excavate a treasure trove of manuscripts by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and others that was found in a warehouse in Secaucus, N.J., in 1982. The…
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A former Meta executive whose memoir, “Careless People,” provides an explosive insider account of her time at the social media giant, has sued the company for attempting to “silence” her. The…
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Musicians from the Opéra national de Paris have announced the creation of Philopéra, an independent symphony orchestra that will be run collectively by its own members, in what the ensemble describes as the first initiative of its…
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A story widely accused on social media of being written using AI has gone on to win the overall Commonwealth short story prize.Jamir Nazir’s story The Serpent in the Grove went viral after being named as a regional winner in mid-May,…
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For weeks, a tarp obscuring the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center has baffled observers, prompting speculation about the Washington, D.C., arts complex following the court-ordered removal of the president’s name. But recent court…
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Conservative groups are preparing to urge the Federal Communications Commission to revoke Disney’s broadcast television licenses, two representatives told POLITICO — a step that would build on agency Chair Brendan Carr’s already…
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In Los Angeles, scripted television had been the backbone of many soundstages, where a boom in series greenlights during the Streaming Wars era led to increased production. Then a spending pullback beginning in 2023 halted momentum and…
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