Art and Culture

It would be hard to overstate how ignorant the Founders of the United States were about their own country. The main map they’d used to negotiate the postwar peace with Britain was woefully inaccurate. – The New Yorker Source…
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Credits Aaron Horwath is the director of AI operations at a creative technology company where he is focused on implementing AI in a way that supports both humans and business. It’s 9 a.m. Monday…
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The film-makers behind NAZA, the award-winning documentary on Israel’s systemic mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza, defended their findings at the film’s North American premiere in New York on Saturday, amid protests in Israel and…
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A group of concerned booksellers recently sent an open letter to the American Booksellers Association and the American Booksellers for Free Expression raising an “urgent concern” about the Trump administration’s NSPM-7…
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Four years ago, the V&A East Storehouse in east London got in touch with Es Devlin. The museum’s curators wanted to invite the British artist and designer to respond to a 100-year-old theatrical backdrop by the Russian artist and…
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Photo: Jeffrey Vest/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images It’s only been a month since Dolly…
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The works of Samuel Beckett are not for everyone. He presents a bleak, boring, meaningless world in which not a lot happens. For instance, this is the opening sentence of his novel Murphy: “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the…
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The Dudamera at the New York Philharmonic hurtled into its third week with a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 that, for all its brassy thrills…
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When Borsook and I first met, in December of last year, she was fully in the midst of what she terms “this resuscitation thing.” It had happened so quickly and altogether without her knowledge: a social media post here, another one over…
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Since the beginning of September, thousands of people have gathered in Prospect Park to watch a play by Molière. Some arrived as lifelong theatregoers or returning audience members. Many were simply walking through the park and…
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