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Renowned Australian Indigenous artist and NT Yolngu woman N. Yunupingu passes away
Born in 1945, Ms Yunupingu — whose full name cannot be used for cultural reasons — lived in the remote…
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Sleep stories by First Nations storytellers to help you get snoozy
That’s the pitch for Dreamy, a new podcast bringing together five sleep stories voiced and written by Indigenous creatives, with…
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Mikis Theodorakis obituary
For those with only a nodding acquaintance with Greece and Greek music, the name of Mikis Theodorakis, who has died…
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Greece mourns Mikis Theodorakis, composer and political activist
ATHENS — Greece is to hold three days of mourning in memory of Mikis Theodorakis, the composer of “Zorba the…
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Joséphine Baker to be first black woman to enter France’s Panthéon
The government says Baker will be inducted into the monument in November. BBC The Panthéon is a burial place for…
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Botticelli to Van Gogh: from luminous, lyrical beauty to the spoils of empire
The two events are not connected, but they do signal how times have changed. Joanna Mendelssohn The Conversation Since 1963,…
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Iconic Detroit artist Charles McGee has died
He was 96. Anthony Curis of the Library Street Collective, which represented McGee in recent years, confirms to Metro Times that the…
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Decoding the music masterpieces: Ravel’s Bolero — a sinuous and sexy composition with ‘no music in it’
Writing to a friend shortly after finishing the work, Ravel described it as having “no form in the true sense…
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Botticelli painting called Young Man Holding a Roundel sells for $120 million at Sotheby’s auction
The work titled Young Man Holding a Roundel is one of roughly a dozen of his portraits known to survive…
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Beethoven at 250: Four Masterpieces to Celebrate the Big Day
Among the countless COVID cultural casualties has been the big Beethoven birthday bash. Daniel Lelchuk The Bulwark The 2020 calendar…
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Beethoven: ‘Happy birthday, Maestro, and thank you for the beauty you have left us’
“Virginia Woolf wanted to be buried to it” Sinéad Doyle The Irish Times Marina Carr, prolific and award-winning Irish playwright…
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Hayat Nazer – The Lebanese artist creating art of love in times of conflict
The weight of it all had nearly paralyzed the small country. Fizala Khan The Kashmiriyat A warehouse explosion that convulsed…
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A magpie’s song that lifted the darkness: new opera tells potent tale
“But they sing, and sing to you. And that carolling is the most glorious thing.” Nick Miller WA Today In…
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Ahead of the Jazz 100 countdown, here are 10 singers worth your time
And perhaps that’s fair: they have, after all, been the art form’s principal innovators. Andrew Ford The Music Show &…
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Archibald prize 2020: first-time entrant Meyne Wyatt wins packing room prize for self-portrait
First-time Archibald prize entrant Meyne Wyatt has broken new ground to win the packing room prize for his self-portrait. Australian…
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Charles Lloyd: Sharing a gift with a Greek goddess
Always a dreamer, he determined that he would find this beautiful woman and take her away from all the misery…
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