Art and Culture

Imagine two identical spoons. One is hand-wrought from silver by a skilled metalworker. The other, a base-metal facsimile, was mass-produced by a machine. Which would you value more? Most of us would say the handmade spoon. In…
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The great streaming panic of 2022 began with an errant quarterly earnings report four years ago. Netflix, which had been riding high for years, reported a 200,000 subscriber loss, stunning Wall Street and missing its own…
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Willy Loman — washed up, beaten down and trying to ride a little longer on a smile and a shoeshine before he’s kicked to the curb — has been a staple of Broadway since Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” first electrified audiences…
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Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember everything. In movies and on TV, viewers repeatedly encounter those with extraordinary minds who glance once at a…
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Good Morning, The big publishing houses filed their long-telegraphed class action against Meta yesterday — and notably, Mark Zuckerberg is named individually, with the complaint alleging he “personally authorized and…
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St Paul, Minnesota (Hybrid) Springboard for the Arts (Springboard) seeks an experienced leader to serve as its next Executive Director. The Executive Director provides overall leadership and strategy for Springboard by articulating a…
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“Before it was a movie, Lauren Weisberger’s The Devil Wears Prada, published by Broadway Books in 2003, marked the absolute high point of that once-ubiquitous genre. … Soon after the success of the novel, chick lit started to fall…
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The media business is full of big-talking executives. But Turner’s outsized public persona — some called him the “Mouth from the South” for his free-wheeling trash talk — actually matched his influence on news, politics, sports and…
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Listening to live music has often been called a religious experience. In Tokyo, it can also be well worth praying for, as Rogers found out. Once, when her oshi, Ayumi Hamasaki, came to town, Rogers entered the lottery without success.…
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The 2026 Venice Biennale has experienced waves of uncertainty that have only grown in strength as the public opening of the world’s most prestigious international art exhibition nears on Saturday morning. – The New York Times The…
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