contemporary
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At a time when few museums had contemporary art departments — “you couldn’t write a dissertation on a living artist,” Schaffner notes — Harris Norton funded the scaffolding that would sustain the artists she collected.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
There are small infusions of contemporary styles here and there, and one can’t help but wish for a few more.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
"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
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
Luther accordingly had collected numerous popular contemporary folk tunes, given them holy words, and encouraged these hymns, or chorales, to be sung in Lutheran churches.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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