Art and Culture

Detail of Refik Anadol’s Infinity Room: Bosphorus (2023) at the Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey photo by Steve Paul) Some months ago, I found myself mesmerized in a room full of pulsing blue waves. It was an immersive,…
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Well, why not? “For me, it’s more about singing the music and just communicating it and making that as accessible as possible in the moment to the audience.” – The New York Times Source link
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It was a surreal, fitting end for one of San Francisco’s most divisive public artworks: the Vaillancourt fountain, an enormous concrete sculpture looming over Embarcadero Plaza since the 1970s, had burst into flames.The hulking…
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“Gelb, who is paid $1.2 million annually, oversees a $326 million budget. … Beyond the often caustic scrutiny of opera critics and patrons, Gelb must reckon with the demands of 3,000 full- and part-time employees, 15 labor unions and a…
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“A nursery of ruins functioning as a quarry.” Architect Ignacio Gil Crespo adopts the analysis that art critic Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño used in the early 1950s to assess the state of Spanish castles. “When you visit a town where the castle…
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One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At least, that’s what he was supposed to be doing. When I glanced at his screen, equations were nowhere to be seen.…
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The “world first museum of AI arts” is scheduled to open next month in a 35,000 square feet purpose-built facility in downtown Los Angeles. Dataland is the brainchild of Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkiliç, artists known for using…
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After decades of dismissing liberal arts and humanities studies as useless and insisting that the mastery of science, engineering, maths and tech (STEM) is essential to future success, the tech world is coming around to the idea that…
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So what can motivate tech barons to give money to opera? How do we convince them that, with their help, they can be a part of imagining a new, mind-blowing, future for opera, just as they have transformed the way we think and live with…
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Stanford has always been a haven for aspiring techies, but recent events have taken the school into uncharted territory. A.I. is everything. We talk about it at the dining halls and in history classes, on dates and while smoking with…
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