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When the medical technology company Abbott developed mixed-reality games, it got one of the world's great orchestras to record the soundtracks.

Though electric machines are now standard, the Venezuelan weaver Margarita Mora has clung to a mix of ancestral Indigenous and Spanish practices to create surprisingly modern work.

Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece, "Sunday in the Park With George," contains a song capable of making order out of mayhem. Listen to hear how he did it.

A co-founder of Pig Iron Theater Company, known for its surreal productions, he also gave energetic performances as his alter ego, Martha Graham Cracker.

Two men scraped and punctured a $23,000 painting at the Houston Museum of African American Culture last month, the museum said. It decided to display the damaged artwork.

With his haunting images of steam locomotives, steel mills and Midwestern farms, the celebrated lensman revealed the poetry in the artifacts of manual labor.

A Brit, he became a symbol of the city's culture, stylish and alienating, with his vivid swimming pool paintings and embrace of SoCal light, hedonism and gay liberation.