Art and Culture

“The entire book that you are going to read was written under the pressure of a sort of religious terror in the author’s soul, produced by the sight of this irresistible revolution.” These words were written by Alexis de…
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Since the moment I learned about the concept of the “thought-terminating cliche” I’ve been seeing them everywhere I look: in televised political debates, in flouncily stencilled motivational posters, in the hashtag wisdom that clogs my…
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Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, auditions were not held until 2021, and a concertmaster still had not been chosen after three rounds of auditions from 2021 to 2023. In the meantime, leadership of the string section fell to the…
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In 1959, at the stifling, snobbish Jesuit boarding school to which my loving parents had unwisely subcontracted my care, Tom Lehrer’s songs burst upon my consciousness like a clown in a cathedral. Days there began with mass, and ended…
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At least 1,000 paintings that the artist Damien Hirst said were “made in 2016” were created several years later, the Guardian can reveal.Hirst produced 10,000 of the paintings, each comprising colourful hand-painted dots on A4 paper, as…
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Most people watching TV are older than those groups. Among cable channels, the median age for TNT and Bravo viewers is 56, for HGTV it is 66, and even the once-youthful MTV’s median-age viewer is 51, according to Nielsen data. The cable…
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Levitt Pavilion’s stage unfolds like a silvery jewel box, its three open sides facing a massive green that has hosted thousands of music fans since 2017.Most of them didn’t pay a dime to get in.The nonprofit organization’s hundreds of…
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A Minneapolis woman is suing the Walker Art Center after an employee, apparently ill-informed on the museum’s policies, allegedly told her she could not breastfeed her infant in a gallery.   Megan Mzenga visited the…
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15 hours agoBy Leisha Chi-Santorelli,BBC News CultureGetty ImagesGerman author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofman at The International Booker Prize 2024 in LondonGerman writer Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann…
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In the never-ending, fruitless search for economy, actors are being replaced by algorithms When the arts chooses to go algorithmic, careers die. (Digging a new grave at Blunsdon Cemetery by Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia…
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