Art and Culture

Good Morning, Happy 250th. Fitting that today’s stories keep circling the question the country has never settled: what is American culture, and who gets to say? There’s a case for George Bristow’s “Niagara” — a choral…
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Jamir Nazir has become the face of the AI-writing crisis. In May, the largely unknown 62-year-old Trinidadian writer was named a regional winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Prize for his short story “The Serpent in the Grove.” But…
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When my feature documentary Motherboard was released, I was in my late 50s. I had filmed it over 20 years, on five generations of smartphones, documenting the pain, joy and comedy of raising my son Jim alone. When I became pregnant…
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Read more Featured Stories like this in The Strad Playing Hub Vijay Gupta had played Carnegie Hall as a child, studied at Juilliard and Yale, and joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic when he was only 19, making him one of the youngest…
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Across Europe, many Jewish museums have seen visitor numbers drop, patrons back away and security threats rise since the fall of 2023. The association’s members also reported online harassment, vandalism and acts of aggression against…
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Jason Moore, who has restaged and updated the show for London: “Once I revisited, I was like, ‘Oh, right, we made this in our 20s,’ and it’s for people in their 20s. There’s now a whole generation of people who … know…
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The discovery of lead during renovation work at Paris’s historic Palais Garnier—opened in 1875 and summoned as inspiration for Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera (and even more famously for Andrew Lloyd…
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“(He) often acted as a kind of Indiana Jones of song, as when he helped excavate a treasure trove of manuscripts by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and others that was found in a warehouse in Secaucus, N.J., in 1982. The…
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A former Meta executive whose memoir, “Careless People,” provides an explosive insider account of her time at the social media giant, has sued the company for attempting to “silence” her. The…
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Musicians from the Opéra national de Paris have announced the creation of Philopéra, an independent symphony orchestra that will be run collectively by its own members, in what the ensemble describes as the first initiative of its…
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