Art and Culture

Findings from economists about film subsidy programs are almost universally negative: It’s a race to the bottom with negligible economic benefits for the state where the biggest winner is Hollywood. Consider Oklahoma. In 2023,…
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It is All Hallows’ Eve – Hallowe’en to you and me – in 1517. Martin Luther, a 33-year-old German priest and scholar, marches up to the church in Wittenberg and nails a document to the door. On the document, in Latin, are 95 statements,…
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The Boston Public Library in Massachusetts. (Plexi Images/GHI/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Digital books have grown in popularity over the past decade, but more Americans still read books in print than in digital…
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Nailya Allakhverdiyeva turned PERMM (in Perm, 700 miles from Moscow) into one of the country’s most respected museums. She tried to cooperate with authorities over any concrete objections to PERMM’s projects, but continuing harassment…
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The heart of the case before the jury involves accusations that Live Nation has pressured artists to use the company’s promotions arm to play at its amphitheaters, and has also forced venues — sometimes with threats — to sign exclusive…
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Hip-hop DJ pioneer Afrika Bambaataa, seen here in New York in 2006.…
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Attribution, in this sense, is not merely a scholarly exercise. It is the keystone of an economic and cultural structure. Without it, prices collapse, catalogues unravel, and historical narratives lose coherence. And yet attribution is…
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André Malraux went on to fight in the WWII resistance, write celebrated novels, get nominated repeatedly for the Nobel Prize, and serve as de Gaulle’s culture minister. In his 20s, however, he and his wife decided they could get rich…
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Greece has introduced sweeping new legislation aimed at protecting its cultural property from forgery and damage, marking the country’s first comprehensive legal framework for crimes against art and collectibles. The bill,…
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The Originality.ai reports on his draft, which he shared with The Times, showed that adding or deleting even just a few sentences produced wildly different results. “What if publishers or agents start running these A.I. tools on…
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