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Eight portraits by John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925), on loan from a private collection, are now on view for the next year in the Nancy Cooper Turner Gallery. These works underscore the gallery’s emphasis on cultural exchange. Perhaps one of America’s most celebrated artists, Sargent defined Gilded Age portraiture. Born to American expatriates living in Italy, the artist moved to Paris in 1874 and enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts.
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Singer-songwriter Noah Kahan fired back against the White House for stealing his song.
The chart-topping folk-pop star publicly repudiated the administration on Tuesday after official White House accounts overlaid his track “American Cars” onto a video featuring Donald Trump visiting General Motors’ flagship test facility in Michigan.
After fans began tagging Kahan in the comments section, he made his stance clear.
“Would never approve of my music being used in support of you …

Singer Humiliates Trump After White House Uses His Song
His co-writer got even more personal.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#PrivatePassions
- Suzanne Vega
Michael Berkeley's guest is the American singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, famous for her global hit Tom's Diner.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dcd4

A look at the playbook tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI use to shape American schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…

How Big Tech Captured American Schools
Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.

Sources: American Idol is moving production from Los Angeles to Georgia, which offers a tax credit up to 30% for unscripted shows that spend at least $500K (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/american-idol-moving-production-georgia-1237101843/…

‘American Idol’ Moving Production To Georgia As ABC Series Becomes Latest To Leave California
The ABC music competition series is the latest show to move production out of California, following The Masked Singer's move to New Jersey.

#TuneTuesday (Sep 22)
American singer #DuncanSheik sadly passed away last week at the age of 56. While most people know him for his 1996 debut single “Barely Breathing” (which I love), I think that his sophomore “She Runs Away” is underrated. It’s tonally different from the first single, but I…

RIP - Goodbye, Dolly!
Die US-amerikanische Sängerin, Songwriterin und Schauspielerin wurde 80 Jahre alt.
https://www.srf.ch/radio-srf-1/ikone-der-popkultur-ist-tot-goodbye-dolly

Ikone der Popkultur ist tot - Goodbye, Dolly!
Die Country-Sängerin Dolly Parton starb heute im Alter von 80 Jahren.

Look, the water has the #AmericanFlagBlue color here in #Graz as well. 😆

Saying "Free Palestine" got Macklemore dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour
The singer Pink said: " What I need is to be able to say, as a Jewish mom, ‘that scared me, and it scared people I love’
Continuing weaponizing this fear that we can't support Palestine.
As if continuing seeing the genocide on every platform was not scary, but that, that is fine.

#TuneTuesday (Sep 15)
“Do You Believe in Us” by Cuban-American singer Jon Secada is such a good piece of Latin pop music from the early 1990s. It also has a Spanish version titled “Cree en nuestro amor”.
https://youtu.be/h5vTvXp2ZzA