Art and Culture

The Eiffel Tower closed Monday due to strikes over outrage that female workers were allegedly ordered to leave and stay out of sight to comply with a special request from a traditional Hindu delegation that visited the monument over…
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The National Symphony Orchestra is going on tour — sort of. With the Kennedy Center facing a temporary closure, the NSO's 2026-2027 season will travel to six venues in the region: two each in D.C., Maryland and Virginia.The NSO is…
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In the English-speaking world, is there a decline in our literacy and in how people live with literature? For the past while there has been a debate on whether we are losing our literary culture – James Marriott thinks we are at…
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The choreographer Richard Alston, who has died aged 77, was a landmark figure in contemporary dance. He began his career in 1967 at a foundational point in British dance history, with the establishment of the London Contemporary Dance…
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That language has been removed from the website, and the marker in the cemetery has been replaced by a new sign that omits wording critical of slavery and the Confederacy. – Washington Post Source link
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If these were normal times, there would be wistful celebration of Lonnie G. Bunch III's decision to step down as secretary of the Smithsonian. He has been an enormously consequential leader of one of this country's most beloved…
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In 1957, undercover police bought a copy of the poetry collection which featured “Howl” at City Lights bookstore in San Francisco — and proceeded to arrest owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti and manager Shig Murao for selling obscene material.…
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The suit, one of four recently brought by contractors alleging nonpayment, claims the museum “actively promoted, contracted, and labeled the construction as a ‘private, non-profit development’ to bypass the rigorous administrative,…
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Hungary’s new government has scrapped plans for a New National Gallery that was to form part of a development in Budapest’s City Park (Városliget) aimed at elevating the capital’s cultural standing.The Liget project has been unfolding in…
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News recently hit dozens of organizations supported by the Jerome Foundation that the board of directors decided to make additional, unrestricted grants to help support them – financially as well as psychically – as they navigate an era…
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