Art and Culture

Can Ireland still claim to be among the most cinema-friendly countries on the planet? That has long been the contention. In 2017, a report from the International Union of Cinemas had the nation tied with France for highest per-capita…
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“The first film I was able to get into after that meeting was an anniversary screening of The Shining (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1980). I’d seen the film before, but this time I realized that it was about an alcoholic who tries to dry out.”…
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Updated at 11:16 p.m. ET on June 16, 2026Last November, a pair of Olympic-bound figure skaters performed in a competition to a song with lyrics that sounded oddly familiar. “Every night we smash a Mercedes-Benz,” the singer began. It was…
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Sonya Tayeh remembers watching Saturday Night Live in October 1992, at home in Detroit, when a young, shaven-headed woman behind a microphone tore a picture of Pope John Paul II into pieces, while saying: “Fight the real enemy.”“I felt…
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Good Morning, Two writers this week set their own terms. Hayley Kiyoko wanted her song “Girls Like Girls” turned into a film; when Hollywood dragged its feet, she just wrote the book first, and the movie followed (The…
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“Asta Norregaard was a sought-after portrait painter among the rich and famous in Norway at the turn of the 20th century, but when she exhibited her work in the country’s capital, critics were quick to dismiss her pictures as decorative…
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Hayley Kiyoko was “resolute that a film version should hit on ‘all the classic tropes’ that she had watched in straight coming-of-age stories and also reflect her own experiences as a closeted teenager.” The film world was slow, so she…
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Only two people attended David Hockney’s funeral last week – in line with the British artist’s final wishes.The two mourners at the private ceremony were Hockney’s 61-year-old partner, Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima, and his 33-year-old…
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Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the…
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In the span of a single week, two deals reshaped the future of American media by concentrating something more valuable than content itself: control over how Americans find and consume it. As conservative billionaires effectively…
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