Art and Culture

Normally, at Hampshire High School, the students in the annual spring musical gear up for their performance with spirit wear, posters at businesses around town, and announcements of the show at school and on social media.…
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Photo: Jason McDonald/Netflix The Oscars are over. Tuxes are back in the closet. Christopher…
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There was no excuse that Toshiko Takaezu, a formidable ceramist, deemed acceptable when students missed her class at Princeton University’s Program in Visual Arts.Not even if a student was training for a place on the United States…
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At no point in the past 400 years has anyone campaigned for more stories about posh people in country houses. It wasn’t as though I had spotted a gap in the market. At times when I was working on my novel, The Kellerby Code, I would gaze…
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LONDON — Sweeping new laws regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe, including controls around the use of copyrighted music, have been approved by the European Parliament, following fierce lobbying from both the…
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“About 20 tips (were) reported to the museum over the past year from people who thought they saw one of the two most recognizable stolen paintings, (Rembrandt’s) “The Storm” or Vermeer’s “The Concert,” in homes across the…
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Or, Drive for Money First; The Road to Oblivion Follows   Photo by Lisa Fotios from Pexels Over the last couple of columns, we’ve talked about the coming war. I need a break from that, and I’m sure you do, too. Let’s head back…
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A trio of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens will remain with their current owner, the Courtauld Gallery in London, the UK Parliament’s spoliation advisory panel ruled. The works in question are St Gregory the Great with Ss…
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During a flourishing international career spanning more than six decades, Mr. Pollini was steadily ranked among those rare musicians to whom other musicians paid close attention. – Washington Post Source link
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Maurizio Pollini, a celebrated Italian pianist whose playing combined intellectual rigor with technical mastery, died March 23 at age 82.The death was announced by Milan’s La Scala opera house, where Mr. Pollini performed frequently. No…
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