Art and Culture

“The houses leaned into spectacle — including a promotional video featuring Nicole Kidman dancing around a bronze Brancusi head — and prearranged deals … that reduced their risk. The result was a season with a few flashy records — and ……
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If you wanted to learn the Cherokee language in the 1990s, there weren’t many written resources: three dissertations from the 1970s and ’80s, one textbook and a handful of college classes in North Carolina and Oklahoma. Even on most…
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Some blame technology, particularly smartphones and social media. Others blame a kind of 21st-century weltschmerz—a sadness about the state of the world and our uncertain future in it. – The Atlantic Source link
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French artist JR has taken over Paris’s Pont Neuf—the oldest bridge over the Seine, and the city’s first built from stone, not wood. Still warm from unveiling his facade for the Venice Venice…
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Gandhi demonstrated that micro-morality is essential, but not good enough. We have to be morally good people used to looking inside and judging what we do before we do it, but also people who look seriously at the flawed systems that…
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I’ve passed enough “As Seen on TikTok” tables at otherwise cozily untrendy bookstores that I can no longer picture a solvent mass publishing industry without this app. Roughly one in thirteen U.S.-sold print books in 2024—59…
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When he became general director in 2024, he had to raise $4 million in 12 weeks just to keep the company from closing; that entire season was, as he put it, “three weeks away from stopping payroll.” Now, notwithstanding the…
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“In a grisly case that shocked the art world, a Cuban-American man was found guilty of his role in a murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the stabbing death of his estranged husband, prominent New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, during…
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On May 23, 2026, Brian James Large has died at the age of 87. Born on Feb. 16, 1939 in London, England, Large went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Academy…
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Something has happened since the pandemic. I don’t know if it was greed accumulated during the closure years, if it was inflation, if it was the lack of competition on platforms like Ticketmaster. But ticket prices have…
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