Category: 5. Entertainment

Today’s lunar and solar conjunctions to Mercury, minister of commerce and communication, are like a velvet theater curtain dropping at the end of the show. And then the lights come up — hopefully slowly enough not to be too jarring. You were…

Aoife Kelleher, director of Mrs Robinson and One Million Dubliners, asks us to…

One of the world’s most prestigious comic book festivals is under threat of cancellation after leading graphic novelists and publishers announced they would boycott the event and the French government withdrew a tranche of its funding.

In the…

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Choi’s Booker Prize-shortlisted generational saga…

Christie’s notched new auction records for Firelei Báez, Joan Brown, and Olga de Amaral during its 21st-century evening sale on Wednesday, underscoring strong demand for historically under-recognized women artists.

Báez’s…