Art and Culture

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Why should a name matter so much? Psychologists have a term that might help explain what’s happening here: prestige bias. Developed by the cultural evolution theorists Joseph Henrich and Francisco J Gil-White, the concept describes the…
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Sesame Street got rezoned for pay TV a decade ago. Reading Rainbow relocated to YouTube last year. Even American Experience — winner of 30 Emmys over its 37-year history — was recently swept into the dustbin of history (or at least…
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Such an opportunity was bound to present itself to the director of San Francisco Ballet in the 2020s. It’s no surprise that she took the opportunity — but what she has to say about the experience, while quite perspicacious, isn’t much…
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Three paragraphs, from three different hotel reviews. Can you tell which, if any, were AI‑generated?“The hotel is in a great location for everything. Lots of places to eat and drink. The hotel itself is always abuzz. The tavern located…
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Robert Kimball, a musical theater historian and champion of American popular song who unearthed hundreds of pieces long thought to be lost and helped rediscover the work of the seminal Black Broadway songwriting team of Noble Sissle and…
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Six years in the making, Shanghai Grand Opera House – one of China's most ambitious cultural builds – is opening its doors. The huge complex covers 146,000 square meters (1.57 million sq ft, or 36 acres) and forms the centerpiece of the…
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“(Anthea) Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History since 2019, has commissioned exhibitions that … document the lived experiences of ordinary people, sometimes focusing on race, sexuality and colonialism. … Many…
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True, the person writing this was a history major, but still: “A rare surviving copy of the Declaration of Independence has been discovered at The National Archives in Kew, the only known example of its kind outside the US.”…
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In October 2016 I was in hospital. I had been ill for 11 years with something I called chronic fatigue syndrome, but in the previous six weeks I had been overtaken by a strange, sudden crisis. I was unable to eat – a day when I managed a…
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