Art and Culture

A tour of four English theatres has been announced for Player Kings, in which Sir Ian McKellen is starring as Shakespeare’s Falstaff for the first time.The play, adapted by director Robert Icke from both parts of Henry IV, is currently…
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In this special edition, I interview National Endowment for the Arts Chair Maria Rosario Jackson and U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos about the mutually reinforcing roles of the arts and the social sciences, and about artists’…
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“The Floyd County (Va.) Public Schools have suspended a One Division, One Book community reading of Katherine Applegate’s Wishtree following complaints that the middle-grade novel depicts a monoecious red oak, a tree with…
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MILAN (AP) — An unprecedented exhibition opening Wednesday at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan reunites for the first time in over 450 years eight surviving panels of the Augustinian Altarpiece…
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Carlos Izcaray and the American Youth Symphony | Credit: Michael BulbenkoIt was a stressful week for classical music in California. Adding to the previously announced departure of Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel from the…
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As a tween, Sunny Choi was a serious gymnast on an Olympic track but decided she should get a real education and job — eventually becoming a senior exec at Estée Lauder. But when breaking was admitted to the Olympics, she decided to…
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Books & the Arts / March 12, 2024 What happened to the 21st-century city? Ad Policy Illustration by Ryan Inzana. This article appears in the March 2024 issue. When I was younger, growing up in the rural but…
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At the core of cultural stagnation is “entanglement,” writes Douthat—“meaning the way that the economic, demographic, intellectual, and cultural elements of our predicament are all connected, so that you can’t just pick out a single…
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When it comes to art, “nothing beats holding it in your hand,” Ms. DuVernay said.“That tactile intimacy of touch is something that sounds kind of flighty and unimportant, but touch is a sense,” she said. “It is a part of the experience…
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