Art and Culture

In my early years as a cultural journalist, I was an enthusiastic booster of NYC’s “Percent for Art” commissions, whereby 1% of the budget for eligible, city-funded construction projects was allocated for the creation of artworks for…
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Symphony concerts aren’t supposed to be like this. This week, the audience for the world premiere of Huang Ruo’s City of Floating Sounds will download an app and stand at one of four designated starting points on the streets of…
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Adobe found itself in hot water this weekend after the Ansel Adams estate publicly scolded the company for selling generative AI imitations of the late photographer’s work. On Friday, Adams’ estate posted a screenshot to Threads showing…
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A savvy online thrifter got the deal of a lifetime when they spotted a pastel drawing listed as a “fake” Degas in 2021. The surprisingly masterful composition caught the punter’s eye and, with…
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NPR's A Martinez talks with Dave Clark, an editor at Ticket News, about why consumers are thinking twice before buying tickets to see their favorite artist this summer. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:…
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UK architecture practice Heatherwick Studio has unveiled its plans to transform the uninhabited Nodeul Island in Seoul into a public park called Soundscape. Situated on the Han River in South Korea, Soundscape will serve as a public…
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Rosie Herrera, who founded her own company in Miami in 2009, will receive $30,000 in an unrestricted cash reward and $20,000 in programmatic support over two years. The prize, funded by the Knight Foundation, is administered by the…
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Linda Fairstein, the controversial former prosecutor involved in the Central Park Five case, has settled her defamation lawsuit against Netflix and Ava DuVernay over the 2019 docuseries “When They See Us.” Fairstein sued in 2020,…
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“(Hallie) Flanagan and her colleagues made theater an important expression of the American democratic experiment through force of will, passion, and ingenuity. And although that experiment was destroyed through a mix of…
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“The plaintiffs — a group of professors, department heads and administrators — say the school did not give them 60 days’ written notice of its plans for mass layoffs, as required under federal law. … The lawsuit could be…
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