Art and Culture

They changed our parents’ and grandparents’ lives by using technology to tackle the curse of household drudgery. Thanks to the vacuum cleaner, fridge, washing machine and microwave, the lives of householders were transformed in a few…
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Netflix and Prime joined broadcast channels for the traditional week of wooing advertisers – and for good reason: “Streaming video now makes up 37% of U.S. television viewing, better than either broadcast or cable TV, according to…
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Any biographical movie—”biopic,” in the popular shorthand—has one question it must answer about its subject well before the cameras start rolling: Why do we care about this person? Biopics of musicians, especially beloved…
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At best, an artist can find a certain kind of serenity in resigning himself to the curse of imperfection.—Gian Carlo Menotti   Should opera composers write their own libretti? The…
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The Venice Biennale may have lost much of its singular luster, now that hundreds of periodic surveys of new international art have joined the roster of what was the first — and, for decades after its 1895 founding, one of the few — of…
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While the vibrance, innovation, and cacophony of online life can feel completely unlike anything humanity has ever created before, its newness isn’t wholly unprecedented. Humans reckoned with many similar challenges to life as they knew…
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Though, well, “due to the lack of cataloguing and records, the museum has had trouble proving which of the recovered items came from its collections, so for now, it is receiving these objects back as donations.” – BBC Source…
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This moment in United States arts philanthropy is defined in part by long-overdue investments in Black, Latinx, Arab, Asian, and Native artists and organizations. The Mellon Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Wallace…
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Boris Kachka about the dynamics of Broadway today. Kachka has a look behind the curtain in his piece for Vulture, headlined "We've Hit Peak Theater." (SOUNDBITE…
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In 2007, Amherst College alum Sarah Rubenstein was trying to balance raising two small children with part-time work as a litigator. Rubenstein wrote in her “Class Notes” for the alumni magazine: The net result is not pretty—my…
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