Art and Culture

The art market is riddled with fakes and forgeries. Yet in most countries, those trading in genuine masterpieces are left to their own devices when it comes to monitoring art sales – creating their own ways to flag problematic…
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A ballooning fascination: CoHo Productions’ Six Clowns and a Chair. Photo: Phil Johnson Column by Bobby Bermea On theater, arts…
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But “the Basque government, headed by Imanol Pradales of the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), has made the transfer of Picasso’s painting a matter of regional pride.” – El País English…
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“The many awards for Paddington were perhaps unsurprising given that the show earned rave reviews when it opened and has played to sellout crowds ever since.” – The New York Times Source link
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This story ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to …
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The illustration for The New Yorker’s profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a jump scare. Altman stands in a blue sweater with a blank expression. Around his head hovers a cluster of disembodied faces — creepy alt-Altmans, their…
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Updated at 8:52 p.m. ET on April 9, 2026This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.No story has caught the imagination of education reformers this decade quite like the “Mississippi miracle.”…
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One person familiar with the cuts said much of the programming department’s work has been either terminated or redirected toward campus rentals, for which venue fees have to be paid up front. – Washington Post Source link
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For 180 years, ever since it was founded by five New York newspapers in 1846 to help share the costs of reporting on the Mexican-American war, newspapers have been a part of the Associated Press’ business. Today, it announced that’s…
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Long before Apple claimed to revolutionize music consumption, scrappy Canadian start-ups were quietly building the streaming future. Turns out maple syrup wasn’t the only sweet innovation flowing north of the border. — The Walrus…
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