Essential Arts & Culture: Getty Villa's redo, speaker dresses and Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer — damn!

Hip-hop upends the Pulitzer Prize and a pair of musicians take to the stage in dresses made out of speakers. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s rocking culture news (and essential cumbia remixes): ESSENTIAL IMAGE The 2018 winner of the Pulitzer Prize... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Moser, Whitehead, McDaniel, Grandin, Boyer, Brown Win 2020 Pulitzers

The 2020 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters were awarded in the book categories of fiction, history, biography, poetry, and general nonfiction, for books published in 2019, on May 4 via YouTube. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Here are the cooking tools that the creator of The Stew, The Cookies, and The Pasta can’t live without. Chef, cookbook author, and writer Alison Roman’s viral recipes, first published in the New York Times and Bon Appetit, have inspired a frenzy of social media posts with hashtags including... Continue reading at Fast Company

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Evaristo, Webb and Gaiman join BBC Arts Big Book Weekend

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PRH launches virtual Penguin Talks series with Speakers for Schools

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‘Warhol’ paints the Pop Art icon as the most influential artist of the 20th century

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Jessi Jezewska Stevens Goes to Some Galleries and Looks at Art

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Amazon France ordered to stop non-essential deliveries following court hearing

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The Pulitzer Prize Board has postponed the announcement of the 2020 awards.

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Arts Council England announces £160m coronavirus emergency fund

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