Art and Culture

If you’d met me when I was 8, you’d likely have found me wearing a tricorner hat. My role model that year was Johnny Tremain, the kid hero of a Disney film about the American Revolution. The occasion was, of course, the nation’s…
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A few days ago, the New York Times ran a provocative listicle entitled “What Is the Definitive Movie About America?” Their writers came up with a couple of inspired choices, like “Dazed and Confused,” along with a handful of…
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“Fandom communities are still mostly relying on vibes. Most fanfics aren’t judged by a tool like the AO3 skin, but by tells’ that could include anything from specific sentence structures — like the notorious ‘it’s not X, it’s…
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This week we collected 139 stories. Here’s what I learned: It’s difficult to deny that something structural is failing the arts. Week after week we’ve been documenting a collapse across the sector that transcends any simple bad…
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This Week’s Highlights: The best stories this week were about recovery — not the economic kind, the archival kind. Scientists read the complete text of a Herculaneum scroll for the first time, 2,000 years after Vesuvius…
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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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NEW YORK (AP) — Actor and activist Danny Glover, best known for starring as an easygoing police officer in the “Lethal Weapon” franchise, has revealed he has Alzheimer’s disease.The four-time Emmy…
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News The overall city budget also establishes a "Cultural Stability Fund" for struggling arts organizations.…
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The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence happens to also coincide with the 200th birthday of composer Stephen Collins Foster. A songwriter who achieved remarkable success in the late 1840s and 1850s with “Oh!…
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“The headline was a grabber: ‘The Ghost Paper That Ate Alabama: How a Media Startup Killed 47 Weekly Newspapers and No One Noticed.’ It was a site named The Editorial, whose name rang a vague bell for me.” – Nieman Lab Source…
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