Art and Culture

Born in 1932 in Chicago, Carl E. Schachter studied music theory with Felix Salzer at the Mannes College of Music, where he later became a faculty member and collaborator. At the cusp of building his career, Schachter completed a…
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Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or…
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Good Morning, The Education Department wants to judge college programs by what their graduates earn — and by that measure, Juilliard fails. So do Yale’s master’s programs in visual arts and music, and Harvard’s in museum…
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Entrenched in Cambodian tradition, Cambodian Classical Ballet originated over a thousand years ago in Southeast Asia. This sacred dance form was nearly erased after the Khmer Rouge killed a quarter of Cambodia’s population, often…
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This component of a long-running plan for the site adds two galleries and 114,00 square feet (10,590 square metres) of space for a recent major gift and the subsequent reinterpretation of its collection. The museum’s footprint has…
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For all the stigma and turmoil that President Trump has brought onto the Kennedy Center, the people who are most harmed are the people who work there — including the National Symphony Orchestra, the very existence of which is imperiled…
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5 min readFor the first time in seemingly ages, books are dominating the cultural conversation. Recent memoirs by Lindy West, Lena Dunham, and Belle Burden, as well as Caro Claire Burke’s ripped-from-the-headlines tradwife novel…
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Much of the public debate around the arch has centered on how it would affect other nearby memorials, particularly the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. – Washington Post Source link
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It’s a wonder that the most intriguing publisher of American poets of the Beat Generation happens to be a German publisher, Stadtlichter Presse. Its “Heartbeat” series of 41 titles to date features not only the most notable Beats —…
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In 1969, the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, in Washington, D.C., debuted a new exhibit: “The Rat: Man’s Invited Affliction.” The display—complete with live rats—was different from what people were used to seeing from the venerable…
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