Art and Culture

Apple has been hit with a fine of €1.84 billion (about $2 billion) by European Union antitrust regulators over its App Store rules, and has been told it cannot stop music services from advertising cheaper subscription deals outside of…
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In this DEIA-oriented era, I may incur censure by mildly disparaging The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism—an exhibition that, before its Feb. 25 public opening, had been prematurely hailed as “the Met’s new blockbuster,”…
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Teachers and other staff in the Houston Independent school district (HISD), which serves the fourth most populous city in the US, are calling for the state-appointed superintendent of the district to be removed amid a surge in…
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Censorship is on the rise globally, say artists and art professionals: two groups that carry the unofficial but historic burden of speaking truth to power and offering political critique on behalf of wider society. This is what Dashka…
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On election night in 2022, veteran journalist Tracy Brown walked through the newsrooms of the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ public radio and saw a future for local journalism. It was the first election after the melding of the Sun-Times…
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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay In the 2010s, cheap solar panels from China began flooding the US market, killing off US domestic panel-makers who couldn’t compete on price. The US government slapped a 40 percent tariff on Chinese…
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SINGAPORE—Rolls-Royce has unveiled new details of a broad upgrade effort for its Trent 1000, 7000 and XWB engine family aimed at significantly improving durability and bolstering its longer term market position in the widebody sector on the…
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SINGAPORE—California-based JetZero says it is poised to begin flight tests of a subscale version of its full-scale blended wing body (BWB) multirole commercial and military demonstrator in the next few weeks. “It should be in a matter of…
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As the aviation industry gathers this week for the Singapore Airshow there is no shortage of military hardware made by US aerospace giant Boeing. Spectators have been treated to displays by the F-15 fighter and Apache attack helicopter.…
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The real estate market in India has been witnessing exponential boom over the last two years. With rentals skyrocketing, the sector has remained buoyant with property owners enjoying the lucrative appeal of their property investment. And it…
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