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In July and August of 2024 in Bangladesh, student protesters' push for change drove the authoritarian prime minister out of power. Hundreds of demonstrators were killed.

A year ago, on Aug. 14, 2024, the World Health Organization declared mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Why are health experts so frustrated by the world's response?

In a new album, the youngest ever Van Cliburn winner puts his own stamp on Tchaikovsky's undervalued set of piano pieces called The Seasons.

Beth Morrison is not your typical moneyed arts patron — but over the past decade, she's managed to gather the funding and venue support to produce works by some of today's most innovative composers.

Visitors will see several new exhibits when the downtown St. Petersburg museum reopens to the public after a yearlong renovation.

On the final episode of Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Hideaki Aomori’s Split stretches the bass clarinet to its limits, exploring the full breadth of its sound world. This hour also features Baljinder Sekhon’s Drifting Seeds for cello and harp, along with music by Anna Mieke, Vivian Fung, and more.Then: chamber music by Jessica Ackerley called Spark Surge — one of the highlights of the final hour. You’ll also hear Fumiko Miyachi’s piano duo Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange Charm, alongside music by Shirish Korde, Oliver Knussen, and others.

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: Andrea Casarrubios wrote Herencia — meaning both “heritage” and “inheritance” — not with a genre in mind, but with specific performers. She imagined the musicians of Sphinx Virtuosi stepping onstage, each carrying their own personal and cultural history, converging into a collective intention to illuminate the world through music.Then: Martin Bresnick’s Mending Time draws inspiration from Robert Frost’s poem Mending Wall, and the famous line: “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” Scored for four saxophones, the piece reflects on the walls we build — for safety, for expression, for division — and invites us to consider how those barriers might also be mended.

An auctioneer stumbled upon the long lost painting, which depicts the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, inside a Paris townhouse last year during a routine visit.

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The 115-year-old building, across Columbus Drive from the J.C. Newman factory in Ybor City, was once a gathering place for cigar workers. An $18.7 million renovation is near completion.