Art and Culture

Don’t let your dominant response default you into driving into that wall. Shame, really. All you had to do was turn the wheel. (“Volkswagen Beetle crashed through a brick wall” by simpleinsomnia is licensed under CC BY 2.0.) Let’s…
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“The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel said in a 2-1 ruling that partially upheld a lower court’s injunction that the library in the small town of Llano had infringed on defendants’ First…
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UPDATED: Rachel Smolkin is departing CNN after 10 years, most recently as senior vice president of global news for CNN Digital Worldwide. Smolkin will become the next president and CEO of Oregon Public Broadcasting.…
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Local News The MFA will invite artists to create annual exhibits that seek to "re-contextualize" a controversial statue of a Native man at the museum's…
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Italy has begun work on what the government claims will be “the biggest cultural infrastructure in Europe”. Part of the newly renovated Albergo dei Poveri in Naples, once a vast hospital complex and almshouse that is now largely disused,…
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Explore If we heeded most of the advice we hear about the internet, we might…
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The Vice President of Education & Community Engagement will be responsible for designing, developing, and evaluating all education and community engagement programs. Supervising a professional staff and committed volunteers, they…
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When he moves to Houston in August to take on that role, he’ll become one of the first Black men to lead a major arts organization in the city. Dereck Charles Livingston is taking over the role from current artistic director Kenn…
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Back in the 90s, when Stephen Witt was attending the University of Chicago, he stumbled on to something many kids did at the time. “One day, I turned on the computer, went into a chat channel and discovered all this music out there ready…
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I have been a freelance book reviewer for twenty years, which means that several times a week, the postal carrier delivers packages of books—some that I requested, some that I didn’t know I wanted, and some that I won’t ever want. A…
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