Art and Culture

Laura Harrison didn’t want to evacuate. The neuroscientist and mother of two had finally gotten her young children settled into bed after their nighttime ritual. But it was the evening of January 7, 2025, and the skies over her home in…
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“There’s too much beauty to be accounted for by simple utility,” argues Nicholas Humphrey. – MIT Press Reader Source link
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At 20, Antonia Susan Byatt was not yet sure she could write. “Do I take myself seriously as a writer?” she asked herself in her diary in September 1956. “No, I think not.”The young Byatt – who would go on to become one of Britain’s most…
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Life magazine is making its long-awaited return to print on Nov. 23, exactly 90 years after its landmark 1936 debut, with a $45 quarterly publication that will forgo traditional print advertising as part of a broader push into digital…
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After an interesting and very messy experiment with programming and organization in 2025 and going dark for summer 2026 (and a tumultuous few years before that), the festival has given up its planned expansion into year-round activity,…
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American soprano Judith Blegen has died at the age of 85. Born in in Fayette County, Kentucky on April 27, 1941, Blegen attended high school in Missoula, Montana and began voice lessons with John L. Lester, head of the voice department…
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Fashion is currently trapped in a hyper-accelerated trend loop. Every week there’s a new “core” or “maxxing” style to contend with – such as balletcore or whimsymaxxing. They zoom in and out of our cultural consciousness with…
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La Stampa, a nationally- and regionally-focused outlet headquartered in Turin, is opening La Stampa USA as an online publication aimed at an Italian-American readership. The newsroom currently has five employees in New York and two in…
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Visitors move from one thrilling juxtaposition to the next. A patchwork quilt made by inmates at Wandsworth Prison, in southwest London, features an embroidered fingerprint flanked by strands of coiled DNA and the words “I didn’t do it…
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What if science, rather than opinion, could determine which horror movies are the scariest of them all? And what if data could reveal what makes these films so effective at terrifying audiences?Well, a recent study by the Science of…
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