Art and Culture

“We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers…and there is good reason for this. We have never looked for ourselves—so how are we ever supposed to find ourselves?”11xFriedrich…
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Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces.As nonprofit news has grown in importance over the last two decades, one bit of wisdom (or…
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Pedestrians walking on Shaftesbury Avenue on November 1, 2018 (Photo by David Cliff/NurPhoto via ... Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty Images West End theatre producers can put on a happy face. In a rare move, the United Kingdom’s…
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ChatGPT caught regulators by surprise when it set off a new AI race. As companies have rushed to develop and release ever more powerful models, lawmakers and regulators around the world have sought to catch up and rein in development.As…
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Karachi-born conceptual artist Rasheed Araeen’s Islam and Modernism encourages Muslim artists and scholars to learn from the Islamic history of ideas pertaining to modernity in lieu of a Eurocentric discourse. The London-based author…
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Being thin is more a consequence of training, she says. Ballet is a competitive sport in an artistic guise.A dancer of the Bavarian State Ballet stretches during a rehearsal. Photo: Getty ImagesA normal working day for Baranova, for…
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Midway through the new documentary Frida comes a declaration from its subject, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, that she would paint only her reality as she saw it. “Through no one’s eyes but my…
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Sunday 22 July 1888 was a glorious day in Copenhagen, warm and sunny. The city was celebrating an outdoor exhibition of the latest architectural ideas, thousands of people had filled the narrow cobblestone streets, all sweaty and waving…
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Esa-Pekka Salonen | Credit: Cody PickensChanging the music director of a major symphony orchestra isn’t like a relay race, where the outgoing maestro just hands the baton to his successor. Now that it’s been announced that Esa-Pekka…
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Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday that he will put together an investor group to buy TikTok after the House passed a bill that would ban the popular video app in the U.S. if…
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