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In a 1982 letter to the National Endowment for the Arts, the artist Robert Rauschenberg recommended two soon-to-be collaborators for grants. “Working with both Trisha Brown and Laurie Anderson will be ...

Despite — or perhaps because of — its instability and flexibility as a term and concept, postmodernism remains in widespread usage. Its meaning can vary depending on the user’s intentions and the ...

Science may be a tried and tested way of knowing what we know, but it’s under threat. In Australia, leading science agency CSIRO is expected to cut up to 350 research roles. A CSIRO staffer said it ...

A new era is dawning in markets, according to Peter Oppenheimer, the head of global equity strategy at Goldman Sachs. Equity-market investors who can move quickly enough to identify winners and losers ...

Paul Thomas Anderson is taking another strike at Thomas Pynchon in One Battle After Another, a modern-day reworking of the reclusive author’s 1990 novel Vineland. And Pynchon himself is back in the ...

The renaissance architect Leon Baptista Alberti began his famous treatise On Painting with the bold but absurd assertion that artists should only be concerned with the things that are visible.

And just like that, And Just Like That… is coming to an end on HBO Max. The show will wrap up its expanded 12-episode third season, which is currently airing, with a two-part finale. Showrunner ...

The exhibition begins in silence—four minutes and 33 seconds of it. The musician and theorist John Cage composed the groundbreaking piece 4’33”, which contains no sound, as a response to White ...

The term postmodernism is a mouthful, to say and to understand, but it is a critical concept to make sense of our world today, especially in the U.S. and especially since 1960. Britanica.com defines ...

Our campus is built around a cathedral. Walk down blocks of healthy palms, stroll along the grassy oval and climb the sandstone steps. Stroll past despairing statues, proud pillars and sloped clay ...