arts and culture
Duke Ellington, a monument in music and cultural history, died 50 years ago
May 24, 2024Duke Ellington, a commanding figure in music and cultural history, especially in the jazz world, died 50 years ago, on May 24, 1974.
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Reading ‘Kairos’: Literary snapshot of life during socialist East Germany’s final days
May 23, 2024Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel about a young woman living through the end of the GDR has just won the International Booker Prize.
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‘Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy’ in world premiere
May 22, 2024“Mix-Mix” is an English translation of “Halo-Halo,” a dessert that’s a mixture of jellies, tapioca pearls, fruit, beans, corn, shaved ice, condensed milk and ice cream—an appropriate metaphor for the mixed cultures that came together as...
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Camille Claudel comes into her own in the Getty Museum’s major retrospective
May 16, 2024In recent decades the work of women artists, as a ripple effect of the worldwide women’s movement, has come more to the fore.
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Women’s liberation comes to the world of mariachi in Los Angeles premiere
May 14, 2024Funny how the theme of oppression of women keeps coming back in the playhouse.
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