Art and Culture

Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry by David Streitfeld; Mariner Books, 464 pp., $35 Although he grew up in a household devoid of books, in a town that lacked a library, Larry McMurtry ended up with a personal…
Read More...

Two L.A. museums are initiating their first-ever major renovations ahead of the frenzy that the summer 2028 Olympic Games will bring. The Getty Center in Brentwood has announced plans to close…
Read More...

“Difficile est saturam non scribere: if you’re paying attention to present conditions, it’s difficult not to write satire,” writes Aaron Matz, quoting the Roman poet Juvenal, in a review of Dan Sperrin’s State of Ridicule from our…
Read More...

The forthcoming Obama Presidential Center in Chicago has announced the final round of artist commissions that will decorate its campus in the Windy City’s South Side when it opens in June. The latest set of commissions will be…
Read More...

La Revue Nouvelle (Belgium) examines the relationship between language and democracy, asking how words can include or exclude, empower or marginalize. Dossier editors Laurence Rosier and Anne Vervier frame the topic…
Read More...

Hilde Limondjian, who spent more than four decades bringing music to the auditorium — and the galleries — of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, died on Jan. 24. She was 89. – The New York Times Source link
Read More...

Victory Gardens’ current leaders didn’t experience this tense period firsthand. Torres’s career had taken him to New York after Chad Deity’s 2009 premiere, and he only returned to Chicago about three years ago, around the same…
Read More...

A Danish writer discovers what Instagram influencers fear most: that maybe there’s no authentic self to brand after all. Thank goodness for Austrian modernists who made existential fragmentation fashionable. — Aeon Source link
Read More...

Gabrielle Garland, "I tried to hate you. I wanted so much to hate you. —Megan Halsey, Re-Animator (1985)" (2026) at Expo Chicago (all photos Natalie Jenkins/Hyperallergic)CHICAGO — Between the scores of working artists,…
Read More...

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube On this week’s Galaxy Brain episode, Charlie Warzel is joined by New York Times technology reporter Tiffany Hsu to discuss the rise of AI influencers—synthetic avatars, often…
Read More...