Art and Culture

People keen to see the Bayeux tapestry faced online queues of up to nine hours when tickets went on sale for the first time on Wednesday morning.The British Museum, which is hosting the wool-on-linen artwork from September, saw huge…
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The Philadelphia Orchestra has appointed Colombian conductor Sara Aldana as its new assistant conductor for the 2026–27 season, giving the Bogotá-born musician one of the most prestigious early-career conducting posts in the United…
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Teenage boys are “stuck” reading primary school books such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid, while girls their age are moving on to a wider range of novels, according to a new study.Among the boys aged 11 to 14 who were surveyed, eight of the 10…
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Investigators since 2017 have seized more than 120 artifacts from the Met ranging in value from $20,000 to $26 million, plus hundreds of smaller items, such as rare pottery fragments, belt clasps, ax heads, safety pins and goddess…
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As a security researcher who specializes in finding web vulnerabilities, he decided to poke around Front Gate’s web domain for bugs. He quickly found what looked like a SQL injection vulnerability—a common flaw that allows a hacker to…
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“When audience levels have plateaued at many traditional museums, the ability of entertainment companies styled as arts institutions to siphon away visitors poses a new challenge to the industry.” As one think-tank director said, “The…
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The think tank has crafted model legislation to remake colleges and universities as race-blind institutions, fueled the campaign to oust Claudine Gay as president of Harvard, and turned City Journal, its quarterly magazine, into a…
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Mahler’s composing hut on the Attersee One of my more popular blogs – it still gets lots of hits – is “Jonas Kaufmann vs. The Orchestra of St. Luke’s” back in October 2018. The larger topic is the role of tradition in musical…
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Franco Zeffirelli’s arena-scale production of Verdi’s Aida has been cancelled for a second time. The two scheduled performances at Adelaide Oval on Friday 26 February and Saturday 27 February 2027 will not take place. Said a spokesperson…
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A pedestal that once supported a Lenin monument in Kyiv that has remained empty ever since 2013 may soon host a statue of a Cossack leader Ivan Mazepa, who is revered by many in Ukraine as a national hero. A…
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