Art and Culture

The world premiere of what’s been billed as the first photorealistic, AI-generated feature film in the Yoruba language fizzled out last week when user demand overwhelmed the servers of Docuth, the streaming platform that hosted the…
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“PEN recorded nearly 12,000 instances of book banning affecting 7,370 unique titles across 114 U.S. school districts during the 2025-26 academic year, a record high since PEN began tracking literary censorship in American public schools…
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What if, like a thumb on the scales tipping debut novels toward more favourable outcomes, nonfiction’s bleaker fate was also a product of accumulated choices—choices about where the money goes and how the story of these books gets told?…
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Good Morning, Hadestown took $10.2 million in North American cinemas its opening weekend, the biggest ever for a filmed stage show, ahead of Hamilton (also double what Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook movie update took in). Director Brett…
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About the Opportunity Center Theatre Group (CTG) is seeking candidates for a new senior leadership role, created to reflect the opportunities and challenges offered by being part of the dynamic leadership team at one of the…
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The Gund at Kenyon College (The Gund), a contemporary and modern art museum for shared learning and connection, seeks a leader with expansive vision and a deep understanding of modern and contemporary art to serve as David and…
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A question that is turning us all into different kinds of readers—skeptical, antagonistic, and less willing to give our fellow humans the benefit of the doubt. Trying to figure out what AI writing looks like is turning writer and reader…
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What makes an artwork real? This seemingly straightforward question can actually be quite loaded. A faked artwork is generally considered to be a copy of an existing work. This seems clear enough, but what…
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Okay, not the first painted self-portrait, but a photo taken by Mia Jackson (younger sister of early photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and grandmother of Virginia Woolf) sometime in the late 1850s is evidently the oldest known image…
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“Since January, when the US imposed a fuel blockade in a bid ​to upend the communist-run government, (Cubans) have had to contend with blackouts spanning days. … On a recent Friday evening, …candles flickered outside the theater hall,…
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