Art and Culture

In gesprek met Hans Haffmans lichtte De Waart zijn plotselinge keuze toe. "Ik werd gisterochtend om half zes wakker om me klaar te maken voor de repetitie en ik dacht, wat doe ik eigenlijk? Ik stond wankel op mijn benen, en…
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“The new double-sided Scrabble board will still feature the original game. … But the new game on the flip side will include helper cards, use a simpler scoring system and be quicker to play. The new board, Scrabble Together,…
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Trevor Griffiths, who has died aged 88, was the most politically literate working-class dramatist and screenwriter of our times, a scholar of Marx, Gramsci and Trotsky, who translated his passion into a series of plays and television…
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In the late 15th century, when the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci completed “Vitruvian Man” — one of his most famous drawings, which depicts the proportions of the human body — he could not have predicted it would be…
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“The film’s themes struck a chord in a country where dissent had been criminalized and fear of arbitrary arrest was pervasive. … Still, the backlash was swift. Putin’s propagandists … denounced (Michael Lockshin) as a traitor to…
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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. A trip to the Taj Mahal is a must for any tourist visiting India. Each year, millions travel to the town of Agra in the state of Uttar…
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“With breaking making its first Olympic appearance at the Paris Games later this year, pole dancers feel it could soon be their turn to be in the limelight, although it could come at the cost of losing the spirit of the…
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The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is going off on piracy again. During CinemaCon in Las Vegas, MPA CEO Charles Rivkin announced that the organization plans on working with Congress to pass rules blocking websites with pirated…
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Staff at technology company Meta discussed buying publishing house Simon & Schuster last year in order to procure books to train the company’s artificial intelligence tools, it has been reported.According to recordings of internal…
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(Spoiler alert: It’s YouTube.)You think you know YouTube. It’s where billions of people learn how to change a tire, follow a favorite yoga workout or catch footage of Monday’s solar eclipse.But maybe you don’t know that YouTube is also…
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