Art and Culture

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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Meta and YouTube have been found liable for deliberately designing addictive products that hooked a young user and led to her being harmed, a jury ruled on Wednesday. Jurors found the tech companies to be both negligent and having failed…
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Meredith McDonough, formerly associate artistic director at Actors Theatre of Louisville and, before that, director of new works at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, takes the helm at the Providence company as of August 3. – The…
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Markus Hinterhäuser is out as artistic director of the Salzburg Festival after a decade in one of Europe’s most influential cultural roles, cutting short a tenure that had been set to run through…
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“One thing that could help turn things around is if opera companies offered audiences works in the language they speak (and) a musical language they can readily recognize and enjoy. … Too often composers and producers reject music that…
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PBS and ITVS have launched a YouTube channel focused on documentaries in a bid to “meet new audiences where they already are.” The channel, called PBS Documentaries, launched on Wednesday with the YouTube premiere of the…
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West End theater tickets are regularly less expensive than on Broadway, even for the same shows. Last year, the average West End ticket price was about $81, while last season the average Broadway ticket price was roughly $129. –…
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As the US-Israel war on Iran enters its fourth week, neighboring Gulf states, a hub of much of the region’s contemporary art production, are projecting an image of normalcy, with many galleries and museums reopening. It’s a…
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Jennifer Schuessler: “Ordinary Americans are far less interested in fighting about history than it might seem. People who work at historical sites, whether government-run or private, report that most visitors, whatever their politics,…
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This is old news by now, but the staff felt an obligation to memorialize it. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt “President Trump has been right about everything, and he will be right again when these short-term…
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