Arts & Life

Oona Doherty’s entrance would have been better had it been a surprise; it wasn’t, but it was still a doozy. This contemporary choreographer and performer from Belfast is astonishing — not merely raw, as she is often described, but exactingly articulate. She is in possession of a body with as …

HARARE (Reuters) – When Dominic Benhura started creating traditional Zimbabwean stone sculptures as a teenager four decades ago, he never imagined that art would bring him fame or fortune. Zimbabwean sculptor Dominic Benhura works on a piece at his studio in Harare, Zimbabwe, March 2, 2020. Picture taken March 2, …

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Thursday it is banning posts that “dehumanize” people because they have a disease or disability or because of their age, a step that happens to correspond to an explosion of tweets about the spreading coronavirus. Example tweets provided by social media company Twitter show …

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday to curb the online distribution of child sexual abuse material and threatens technology companies that offer encryption. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) attends an event celebrating the anniversary of the White House’s Women’s Global …

THESE GHOSTS ARE FAMILY By Maisy Card As family secrets go, Stanford Solomon’s is a whopper. “I was born Abel Paisley,” the dying 69-year-old confesses to his daughters in 2005. Having emigrated from Jamaica to London more than three decades earlier, Abel and his childhood friend — the original Stanford …

THE EXHIBITION OF PERSEPHONE Q By Jessi Jezewska Stevens To the artist in love, a woman’s face is only a suggestion of what her portrait could be. “For centuries painters have been falling for their models, marrying their models, replacing their wives with mistresses-as-models,” says the narrator of Jessi Jezewska …

She was an impoverished Jewish immigrant from Russia who had started working in a cigar factory at the age of 11; he was the scion of an old-money Episcopalian family who enjoyed a mansion on Madison Avenue and a weekend house with a bowling alley. When Rose Pastor married James …

ROME (Reuters) – An exhibition commemorating the 500th anniversary of the death of Renaissance artist Raphael opens in Rome this week but the show risks being overshadowed by the coronavirus outbreak sweeping Italy. Members of media pass by painting titled “The Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia” by Renaissance master Raphael during …

It’s an ingenious setup for a novel, promising the reader the perfect vantage point for a panoramic view of society’s crosscurrents at a moment primed for revelatory confession. But deep down, Durkee seems relatively uninterested in the sociological; as Lou’s marathon shift drags on — fueled by stimulants, an anxiety …

She was a composer and a pioneering conductor — the first woman to lead performances by top orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. And she was one of the most influential music teachers of the 20th century, shaping a roster of composers including Aaron Copland, Quincy …