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Arts, Culture & Media
How AI is helping to recreate childhood memories
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Nea on the beach
Music
The changing landscape for Sweden’s successful music industry
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A silent movie cinema thrives in Brussels
Iraqi cellist and conductor Karim Wasfi leads a performance at the National Theatre in Iraq, Baghdad, March 11, 2023.
Music
Iraq’s revived art scene is helping to heal the country’s wounds
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Ukraine
‘My art is not soft anymore’: A Ukrainian sculptor reshapes his vision in response to war 
Ilona Kravchenko and Jan Vana perform in “Giselle” with the Ukrainian Classical Ballet in Bucharest, Romania.
Ukraine
The long fight for arts and culture in Ukraine as war rages on
Exterior of the Museum of the City of New York, with a promotion for the "City of Faith" exhibition currently on display, New York, Dec. 1, 2022.
Lifestyle & Belief
Museum exhibit highlights New York’s sacred spaces
"Bust of a smiling woman," 1901, by Pablo Picasso, at the Reina Sofía Museum. 
Arts, Culture & Media
The Picasso paradox: Museums grapple with how to remember the artist’s complicated legacy
A white wall with black ink drawings and a person standing to view it
Arts, Culture & Media
Moscow multimedia exhibition focuses on anti-Kremlin protest culture
A comic of a sitting man with a black background
Migration
These comics help combat mental health challenges for migrants in Vermont
A man in mining gear exits a shaft. Signs in Polish flank the opening.
Climate Change
Polish artists turn coal into ‘black gold’ as the mining industry shifts
frida
As Hungarian nationalism rises, is there room for Frida Kahlo’s art?
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Arts
Diversity and equality remain elusive in ballet
Leonardo da Vinci, Master Of Art And Science
Left: Kim Jong-Un as the class bully, El Universal Opinion, Mexico,  September 2, 2017.   Right: Catalonia removes a key piece of Spain, El Universal Opinion, Mexico, October 14, 2017.
Arts
The wordless, surreal and very Cuban satire of Angel Boligán
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Culture
Photos: How Polaroids helped kids in project housing tell their stories for 50 years
Mike Nichols
Culture
How a German-born, American comedy actor influenced the life of a kid growing up in Omaha
Shantanu Starick in Ireland
Arts
A photographer trades his pictures for a place to sleep — and travels the world
Algeran artists exchange ideas at BOX 24, an artist collective in Algiers.
Arts
Algeria’s contemporary artists strive to make their own space
Arts, Culture & Media
Your Take: Most Hated and Most Loved Holiday Songs
Arts, Culture & Media
Remixing the Holidays: Christmas Memories with Natalie Cole
Arts, Culture & Media
This Disney princess has taken Broadway by storm — and now wants to kick some butt
Business, Economics and Jobs
The economy in haiku
Global Politics
Sanity checking last minute political ads
Arts, Culture & Media
Maya Angelou was a poet and activist, but she got her start as a Calypso star
Arts, Culture & Media
Maya Angelou was a poet and activist, but she got her start as a Calypso star
Kevin Spacey
Arts, Culture & Media
From Richard III to Frank Underwood, Kevin Spacey plays villains with a healthy dose of glee
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Arts, Culture & Media
In Hollywood, superheroes are still a boy’s club
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Arts, Culture & Media
In Hollywood, superheroes are still a boy’s club
Ela Weissberger speaks with the cast members of Brundibar at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA.
Arts, Culture & Media
Seventy years later, a Holocaust survivor remembers the performance of her lifetime
Ela Weissberger speaks with the cast members of Brundibar at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA.
Arts, Culture & Media
Seventy years later, a Holocaust survivor remembers the performance of her lifetime
Arts, Culture & Media
This one music video has started a global wave of happiness
Arts, Culture & Media
Check out these four ‘must see’ foreign films of 2013
Arts, Culture & Media
After getting tangled in Spider-Man, Julie Taymor turns back to Shakespeare
Aysha el-Shamayleh reading one of her poems
Arts, Culture & Media
Slam poetry brings honesty, and nervousness, to Jordan
Students at a D1 dance competition in Lima, Peru. The group started with kids who did backflips on the street for spare change.
Arts, Culture & Media
A passionate ballerina turns at-risk kids in Peru into professional dancers
Jeanne-Paule-Marie Deckers aka The Singing Nun
Arts, Culture & Media
Here’s the music that Americans wanted to hear after JFK’s death
Arts, Culture & Media
Banksy’s exhibition in New York gets people talking about art
Rio de Janeiro's Lapa neighborhood
Arts, Culture & Media
Rio de Janeiro is a city rich with musical traditions
American Icons: Anything Goes
Arts, Culture & Media
How to Remain Relevant Without Trying: ‘Carry On…Up The Khyber’
Guerrilla film project changes boundaries of movie-going
Arts, Culture & Media
Modern Hamlet achieves record-breaking Kickstarter campaign
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Taken 2,’ ‘The Paperboy’ slated for box office debut this weekend
Arts, Culture & Media
Italian-style hip-hop artist Jovanotti making in-roads in the U.S.
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Chicken with Plums’ tell universal story of creativity, family life, heartbreak
Arts, Culture & Media
Play explores racism in 1950s Chicago neighborhood; builds off previous Broadway show
Arts, Culture & Media
Mo Willems remembers author Maurice Sendak
Arts, Culture & Media
Remembering Maurice Sendak, author of “Where the Wild Things Are,” dead at 83
Arts, Culture & Media
Renowned actor Williem Dafoe discusses recent films, acting past
China’s creative set using humor in subtle challenge to authoritarian rule
Arts, Culture & Media
A “Coal Miner’s Daughter” sings for America
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Come Fly Away’ with Twyla Tharp
Clowns bring laughter to Haiti
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Stand-up comedy in the Middle East
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The ‘Spark’ of creative inspiration
Arts, Culture & Media
Kids’ movies aren’t just for kids anymore
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Movies for this weekend — and beyond
Arts, Culture & Media
From print to screen: The evolution of ‘Precious’
Arts, Culture & Media
John Cale on Andy Warhol