Art and Culture

Whether you talk with engineers, venture capitalists, founders or managers, or with doomers, accelerationists, lefties or libertarians, the so-called San Francisco consensus on the impact of A.I. for workers is bleak. – The New…
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“Renzo Carbonera, an Italian filmmaker, is making his theatrical directing debut with a production (of Jitney) that he says will be the first Italian-language translation of a Wilson play to be performed by a cast of Black-Italian…
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Doron Zeilberger is a mathematician who believes that all things come to an end. That just as we are limited beings, so too does nature have boundaries — and therefore so do numbers. Look out the window, and where others see reality…
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Good Morning, Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart says the Boston Symphony has been “living on borrowed time” for years (Boston Globe). In Minneapolis, the Jungle Theater, dark since February, has put its building up…
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According to results from a 2025 Harris Poll, 62 per cent of American kids aged eight to 12 have never walked or biked somewhere without an adult. Roughly the same percentage have never made plans with friends without adult assistance,…
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“These experiences allow people with money but little musical ability to roleplay composer and conductor — for a price. This development flows naturally from this era’s extreme inequality as well as classical music’s precarious state,…
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Three months after pausing its programming because of financial hardship, the Jungle Theater has put its south Minneapolis home up for sale. The company announced April 30 that it is actively looking for a buyer of its Lyndale Avenue S.…
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A new Banksy statue, featuring a man with his face covered by a flag, was this week erected in the dead of night in central London.His new work of art was first spotted on Wednesday, and the artist’s signature was scrawled at the base of…
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‘After my son’s birth, I was a different person’Lana Jones, midwife, former principal dancer at the Australian Ballet I loved taking the audience on a journey in ballet, pushing my body to its limits. But I knew I couldn’t dance for…
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Dressed in a boubou, a traditional Arab robe, Mohammed Abdullah Ould Gholam Habott, 51, puts on gloves before delicately handling the ancient manuscripts. He opens a book about Sufism, a mystical practice within Islam, and then another…
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