Art and Culture

As a linguistics professor, I’m often asked why English is decaying before our eyes, whether it’s “like” being used promiscuously, t’s being dropped deleteriously or “literally” being deployed nonliterally. While these common…
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The LA County Museum of Art has always been a museum on its own terms. Housed in what felt like a ramshackle architectural hodgepodge of period buildings built around an outdoor plaza, its fascinating collections belied the setting.…
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The message from the White House—and, often, from tech companies and public schools—is that Figure 03 and its A.I. militia are irreversibly here, and belong everywhere, and we should feel terrified but also “empowered,” and that the more…
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I bumped into a conservative acquaintance in the green room at Fox News several years ago. He was obsessed with falling fertility. Knowing that I worked on immigration policy, he said that immigrants assimilate too rapidly to America’s…
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The Venice Biennale‘s jury said on Thursday that it would not consider nations whose leaders have been charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court—a move that effectively tosses Israel and Russia out of the…
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Of all of the Hollywood actors and directors who garnered cheers at last week’s CinemaCon, no one received a louder ovation than Steven Spielberg. The legendary director himself applauded Universal for replacing its policy of bringing…
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Alyssa Collins knew when she assumed her post as the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens’ inaugural Octavia E. Butler fellow in 2021 that the science-fiction luminary had openly criticized her lost novel,…
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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav‘s compensation tied to the company’s pending merger with Paramount was rejected by an eye-opening 82% of shareholders, the company said Thursday. Earlier in the day, the company convened a…
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Under the arrangement, the Saudi government would have provided the Met with $200 million in badly needed funding in exchange for the company performing a three-week season at the Royal Diriyah Opera House just outside Riyadh each…
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