Art and Culture

We are living in a strangely apocalyptic moment where a perverse logic runs the machinery of public life while insisting everything is just fine. Around the world, political systems are tightening control over commerce,…
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Olivia Dean, Ellie Rowsell of Wolf Alice, Jacob Alon, Self Esteem and Kae Tempest lead this year’s Ivor Novello awards for excellence in British and Irish songwriting, with two nominations apiece. Self Esteem’s cowriter Johan Hugo, and…
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This Week’s Highlights: Arts institutions are shedding leaders without apparent ideas about what they want next. The Boston Globe asked the week’s sharpest question about the BSO’s firing of Andris Nelsons — not “what’s…
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Will this argument play? “Whether it is computer chips, the energy sector or pharmaceuticals, this is something that is standard in the United States. … In terms of our nation, Hollywood and its ability to tell the story of…
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Image by Michael Krämer from Pixabay Editor’s Note: These weekly essays are meant to connect stories from the week to larger trends and ideas across the arts world. To see all the stories on which these essays are drawn from, …
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One of those statements was Musk “tweeting a poop emoji when then-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal commented there was no way for external parties to calculate this information.” – Courthouse News Source link
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In which Slate unpacks the internet’s reaction to Lindy West’s new book, and Lindy’s – and her partners’ – reactions to the reactions. “I’m like, man, you’re rusty at this because, yeah, maybe it’s been a long time.”…
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(Kudos to the art director who chose that American flag done with handprints – it’s perfect). I enjoyed reading Becca Rothfield’s “Listless Liberalism” in The Point, in which she reviews Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s …
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“The institution’s new Arts of Africa galleries, … a 6,400-square-foot home for its 4,500-piece African art collection, … will open in Fall 2027, presenting 300 African artworks dating from antiquity through today, installed throughout…
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Art is a universal good. No argument. Nonprofit arts organizations are not art, and therefore are not a universal good. No argument there, either. Don’t be this guy. “But Alan,” said the guy, “what do you have against art?…
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