Arts & Culture
Arts
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- MusicRock singer and naturalist: How Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg straddles two careersBy Stephen Humphries / 5 min
- ‘Little House on the Prairie’ returns. Will the show’s reboot resonate with a new generation?By Kendra Nordin Beato, Emily Staunton / 5 min
- An enslaved potter left messages for the future, inscribed in clayBy Ken Makin / 7 min
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BooksEnglish painter John Constable captured the rhythms of rural life
Difference MakerThis Nigerian educator gave a river a voice. The next generation is listening.
AI can write songs, plays, and novels. What does that mean for human creativity?
In Oscar-nominated ‘One Battle After Another,’ a message for a troubled America?
From the Magazine‘This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.’ How two murderers found grace performing Shakespeare.
How a hippo and an octopus brought joy to this Boston neighborhood
Should art be ‘patriotic’? Artist pulls her Smithsonian show, citing censorship.
BooksDavid Hockney’s world vibrates in living color
‘The city becomes a canvas for storytelling.’ How Baltimore is honoring Freddie Gray.
EuropeWhy London’s hot ticket is a sing-along of school assembly hymns
Nobody’s muse: Revisiting the art of Leonora Carrington
BooksMario Vargas Llosa ‘put Peru on the world’s literary map’
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- From the MagazineWhy Howard Zinn became a ‘people’s historian’By Barbara Spindel / 4 min
- Supreme Court hits record low approval: What it means for the new termBy Henry Gass / 5 min
- A Christian Science PerspectiveAn illuminating lesson / 3 min
- Recounting cockpit struggle on FlyDubai flight, Israeli passengers return homeBy Ilan Ben Zion / 3 min
