Art and Culture

The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday halted the ruling, which would have restored park materials that the administration says were purged as part of the administration’s effort to get rid of materials that “disparage” Americans.…
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In 2002, the Black feminist writer and scholar bell hooks published a book titled “Communion,” which argues that women have been conditioned to search for love outside of themselves, and should focus on cultivating self-love in all…
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TMBT performers pose for a promo shot for Reverie. (Photos by Israel Zavaleta Escobedo) Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre has been making movement magic in Atlanta for a decade. Artistic Director John Welker spoke to ArtsATL about its…
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Midjourney is trying to force Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. to reveal how they use artificial intelligence as it defends itself from a potentially ruinous copyright lawsuit. The studios sued the AI image lab last year,…
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Jean-Paul Sartre, for instance, insists that for humans ‘existence precedes essence’. We do not have an essence until we give ourselves an essence. In short, ‘man first exists: he materialises in the world, encounters himself, and only…
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TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. My guest today, actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, has played a national security adviser on "The West Wing," a matriarch on "Black-Ish" and a…
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Financed by public subscription, powered by photography and P.R., the Statue of Liberty is now so identified with her adopted home that she has all but melted into symbol. – The New York Times Source link
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Spotify has removed more than 500,000 registered streams from Malcolm Todd‘s Earrings, after the song’s rise to No. 1 on the platform’s daily US chart was tied to bets placed on the prediction market Kalshi.Kalshi is a US prediction…
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More than a decade ago, while on research fellowship at the British Library, I used to while away off-hours at the various pubs in King’s Cross, including a slightly dissolute bar on Cromer Street where in between mysterious…
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America250: A scholar of American musical history reflects on Niagara, a symphony that connects centuries of our nation’s cultural life The only thing ‘fixed’ about American identity, musical or otherwise, is that it remains…
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