Art and Culture

This Week’s Highlights: Art students blocked the Louvre’s glass pyramid on Monday and closed the museum, two days after a nationwide protest over public schools ended in about 2,400 arrests and a burned town hall in Limoges…
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Arts Engines highlights the perspectives of the thought leaders and game-changers who are creating significant impact in the field of the arts. As the only arts show of its kind with an African-American host, it is produced in…
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The art fair had been schedule to run through the weekend, but organizers have decided to shut it down on Friday evening “in light of potential demonstrations across Paris this weekend, and in the interest of safeguarding our visitors.”…
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Noah Adams hosted NPR's All Things Considered for 18 years. His soft voice and vivid writing helped define the…
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In March of 2026, in a nondescript, 46th-floor office overlooking lower Manhattan, about two dozen members of Scientific American’s editorial staff had gathered in person and online to talk openly about their approach to political…
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The chair of the El Paso County Republican Party has said he intends to sue Sacha Baron Cohen over footage of the local politician used in new satirical comedy Ali G: Who Iz I?In the film, Michael Aboud is shown taking part in a training…
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When conceiving the project, Snøhetta sought inspiration from the building’s site. Located in the Expo Back Beach area, the adjacent Huangpu River with its flowing stream, passing ships, and winding bends prompted the building’s most…
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Someone writing from the Bard president’s email address asks Mr. Epstein whether a young woman was “for me, or are you keeping her for yourself.” The contention over the email is the latest, and perhaps most intense, dispute over the…
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We are once again entering an age of “virtuous” violence, where any atrocity—by racists, Jew ­haters, or Islamophobes, the right or the left—can be somehow justified. It is not a place any of us should want to live.Where, then, do we go…
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In conversations, few words catch my attention faster than ‘friction’ – and especially talk of making things frictionless. From the workplace to grocery shopping, our societies seem to be striving to remove friction from everything. The…
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