Art and Culture

Looking at trends in the trade category, which includes religion books, sale rose 2.7% overall to $21.7 billion. The increase was led by religious presses, whose sales rose 9.3%, to $2.2 billion. Adult fiction sales had the second…
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In popular culture and pop psychology, crowds are often associated with strong emotions, excessive emotional expression and the uncritical spread of emotions. Commentators often link that crowd emotion in turn with uncontrolled…
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Ellison has most often mentioned Tennessee as a potential new headquarters, the Journal previously reported. That state is already a home to Oracle, the software giant co-founded by Ellison’s father and Paramount stakeholder Larry…
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Amid a broad crisis in higher education in the US resulting from demographic trends and a combative Trump administration, enrollment at New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA) is down some 34 percent since 2019, and the school faces a…
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“Just days after USA Today Co. (formerly Gannett) announced a new deal with technology company Palantir to help monetize its users’ data, unionized employees across the country are calling on the company to end the partnership.” –…
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A judge has ruled that the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. must pay a jazz musician $252,000 in legal fees and costs, following the organization’s unsuccessful lawsuit against him for pulling out of a concert in the wake of a…
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Early last year the Giller Prize broke ties with its longtime sponsor Scotiabank — leaving it without the means to support the C$100,000 award and other programs. Now the foundation which stepped up with C$! million in bridge funding…
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“A perusal of the archives shows how rich the Dance Division’s history has been, with a roster of teachers and students that reflects the arc of American dance in the 20th century. And the curriculum, a mix of ballet and modern dance,…
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Ari Emanuel’s Mari has signed a deal to acquire Broadway and West End theater giant ATG Entertainment. The financial terms of the agreement, which sees Mari acquiring the theater owner from private equity firm Providence Equity…
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The extremely careful handling of the fragile cloth and the custom-made equipment to protect the piece from vibrations while in transit weren’t the only part of the process: it was almost as complicated a project to get France to agree…
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