Art and Culture

Update: 10.05 am PT… Catherine Pégard has been named as France‘s new minister of culture, replacing Rachida Dati who stepped down on Wednesday to focus on her campaign to become the mayor of Paris in upcoming elections. Former…
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From the Top has championed young classical musicians for 25 years. And soon the nonprofit public radio program will move to North Texas. The show is heard on nearly 200 stations across the…
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“Rena Bransten Gallery was known as one of the pioneering contemporary art programs in San Francisco. She helped the gallery develop a long tradition of presenting female artists, artists of color and LGBTQ creatives, particularly known…
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Wesley Morris: “Why wouldn’t I have wanted this? A six-episode show that’s exemplary as romance, as physical intimacy, as banter, as athlete psychology, as conversation, confession and comedy, as just good television that involves a few…
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It’s not quite a War of the Worlds freak out, but this week, once again, a piece of eerie speculative fiction made a big, real world impact. On Monday, a blog post imagining an 2028 economy choked by AI…
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When Philip Roth published his novel Zuckerman Unbound 45 years ago, The New York Times called it an “act of contrition.” The literary critic George Stade read it as an autobiographical account of Roth’s experiences as the author of…
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‘I’ll tell you something I’ve not told anyone,” says Celia Rowlson-Hall. “This might make me sound a little wild, but I don’t care.” The choreographer is recounting her experience on The Testament of Ann Lee, a fever dream of a film…
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A group of right-wing Congressional Representatives introduced a federal book banning bill in Congress this week that would give book censors wide latitude to remove books from schools and libraries. The…
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Forget the petrified citizens – new 3D renderings show Pompeii as the thriving metropolis it was before Vesuvius crashed the party. Because apparently we needed CGI to remind us that ancient Romans actually lived there. — Aeon Source…
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EXCLUSIVE: Broadway’s Jonathan Groff, currently portraying 1950s heartthrob Bobby Darin in Just in Time, is brushing up on his Shakespeare to play Rosalind in an all-male production of comedy romance As You Like It, which will mark the…
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