contemporary
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"Opera has the potential to be a valid, living, contemporary art form which draws upon so many other different types of art, design, action, other types of music, different types of performance," said Thomas.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
Some of our finest contemporary writers got their laurels Friday night at the 46th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony at USC’s Bovard Auditorium.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
There is no fixed pathway; the layout is deliberately designed to be, as contemporary museumspeak puts it, “nonhierarchical.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Breanna lives in Tacoma, Washington state, in the US and has trained in ballet, contemporary, and jazz dance since childhood.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
Jomon Japan was a conservative miniature universe that maintained its isolation and changed surprisingly little over the course of 10,000 years—an island of stability in a fragile, rapidly changing contemporary world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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