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‘She transcends’: French Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux finds hope and meaning in ‘Vida’

June 26, 2024Music

After a 10-year break, Ana Tijoux, who became famous abroad in 2010 with her album, “1977,” has just released new songs inspired by motherhood, war, pollution and the end of the world.

TV and movies are one way we understand people and places we’ve never had direct contact with – and maybe never will.

Netflix’s big bet on foreign content and international viewers could upend the global mediascape — and change how people see the world

April 15, 2021Arts, Culture & Media

A film still of a man sitting at a dressing room mirror with lights

In ‘The Humorist,’ Soviet comedy is no joke

September 18, 2019

Charles Aznavour, beloved French crooner, dies aged 94

October 1, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Karim Asir performs for school kids in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Charlie Chaplin on the streets of Kabul? One Afghan takes on the Little Tramp.

August 24, 2018Arts

Cue-card guy, Wally Feresten during a "Late Night" sketch on May 11, 2016.

Live, from New York, it’s Cue Card Wally

May 22, 2018Unsung Heroes

Growing up, Wally Feresten never dreamed of being a cue card holder. Now, 28 years later, he can’t imagine doing anything else.

Big Eyes

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

We love big eyes on anything — babies, puppies, cartoon characters, Christina Ricci. But our fondness for big eyes is the work of nature, not Disney. Studio 360’s Eric Molinsky found out how evolutionary psychology butts into pop culture.

Finished mounted Oscar Statuettes are seen at the Polich Tallix foundry in Walden, New York.

Oscars’ #MeToo dilemma

February 28, 2018Culture

The job of policing accusations against filmmakers, agents and actors among the academy’s members has proved slow and difficult.

Artist Lakshmi Ramgopal poses in front of yellow flowers in this 2017 photograph.

Lakshmi Ramgopal is adding Indian classical music influences to her electronic-ambient projects

February 7, 2018Arts

Lykanthea nestles comfortably in the electronic-ambient genre. But she’s begun to add traces of her childhood training in Carnatic music.

Alec Baldwin, connoisseur of jerks

November 14, 2017Culture

Alec Baldwin has had a long, successful career in the movies and TV, but playing Donald Trump has brought him a new kind of fame.

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