Art and Culture

It is not every day that the laying off of a university bureaucrat generates a torrent of criticism from students, faculty, and alumni. But Jane Rosenzweig was not just any university bureaucrat, and she was not presiding over just any…
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“Los Angeles and California continue to struggle to keep movies, television series and even game shows from fleeing elsewhere. … The story of how L.A. steadily lost much of its homegrown industry to other locales is a tale of hubris,…
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Is the era of media giants kowtowing to the Trump administration over?The Walt Disney Company drew a line in the sand on Tuesday when its network sued the Federal Communications Commission to stop early reviews of licenses held by eight…
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In May 2025, ten people affiliated with Eksmo, Russia’s publishing behemoth, were detained in Moscow. Three of them, Pavel Ivanov, Dmitry Protopopov and Artyom Vakhlyaev, were charged with ‘organising activities of an extremist…
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Even by the arcane standards of soccer songs and chants, the Argentine team’s locker room number required some explanation. “Thirty-two years later,” it proposes “Scaloni will avenge / the Cup stolen from number ten! . . . for Las…
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A lone visitor looks for a garden outside an empty monastery. A morose housekeeper won’t let anyone behind the door of her own home. A retired general living alone on a crumbling estate waits 40 years to confront the only friend he ever…
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Colombia’s ministry of culture released its first official report on damage to dozens of cultural heritage sites from the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck the west of the country on 10 August.The report, published on 14 August,…
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Founder Martin Ludlow, a former City Councilman, hoped that his star-studded multi-day event could ultimately become a peer to the great jazz fests in New Orleans and Montreal. Instead it came out looking more like Fyre Festival, and…
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The celebrated lyric soprano, renowned for her Violetta, Mimì and Gilda, has died at the age of 87. Romanian soprano Ileana Cotrubaș, one of the leading lyric sopranos of the second half of the 20th century, has died at the age…
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