Art and Culture

“Benaroya Hall, the longtime home of the Seattle Symphony …, will close for six weeks beginning in July for the final phase of a $20 million renovation to the building’s entrances, lobby and public-facing spaces, the Symphony announced…
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As a child growing up in Mexico in the Sixties, hardly anybody recognised Cristina Kahlo’s surname. “They would say, ‘Calvo?’ And I’d say, ‘No, no: Kahlo. K-A-H-L-O.’ I had to spell out my surname.”That changed in 1983 with the…
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There were the contractors it had hired to build an ice rink on the center’s plaza, and the work visas that took a year to secure for skaters from seven other countries. And although there were internal debates and external demands to…
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When I first met Bill* at a Los Angeles coffee shop I frequent, I thought he was homeless. He was wearing a rumpled, food-stained shirt, and his hair was a matted-down tumbleweed that hadn’t been cut or washed in years. I was surprised…
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Germany's Deutsche Welle (DW) has to save €21 million ($24.7 million) after a deep cut to federal subsidies, the international broadcaster said on Wednesday."Around 160 full-time positions are affected," Deutsche Welle said in a…
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An exhibit detailing the lives of nine people enslaved by President George Washington in Philadelphia is being reinstalled on Thursday, despite an ongoing legal fight between…
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The Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that advises the president and Congress on design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings, is usually made up of experts in…
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Late last year, there was a palpable tension among Victorian arts organisations. Rumours were that one of the most important arts funding rounds was going to be a bloodbath.They were right.A week before Christmas, longstanding arts…
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Like many other words that have been “problematised” using post-structural approaches in the humanities, “care” is no longer simply a benign building block of a sentence, but is now part of a broader academic nexus that underpins its…
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The Metropolitan Opera announced its 2026–27 season — 17 productions, the fewest since the company moved to Lincoln Center in 1966, with more than a third of all performances drawn from just three warhorses (AP). Coincidentally(?),…
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