Art and Culture

In March, we saw the launch of a “ChatGPT for music” called Suno, which uses generative AI to produce realistic songs on demand from short text prompts. A few weeks later, a similar competitor – Udio – arrived on the scene. I’ve…
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The average time spent daily on a phone, not counting talking on the phone, has increased in recent years, reaching 4 hours and 30 minutes as of April 2022. Some of you reading this may spend even more. A stealth crisis in…
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Fake artworks supposedly painted by Impressionist masters Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Vincent van Gogh are being sold on eBay, according to an expert art authenticator. Carina…
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In a recent recital in the auditorium of Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, violinist Marina Chiche plucked at her instrument with a flurry and tempo that echoed the brisk brushstrokes in the blockbuster…
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The success of New York’s spring art auctions was in jeopardy on Sunday, a day after auction house Christie’s confirmed that its website had been hacked, potentially shutting out some bidders on $850m worth of art work going up for bids…
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This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here.Some 50 years ago, the architect and writer Peter Blake put himself on…
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Sarah Paulson still doesn’t fully understand why fans call her “mother.”At first, when she started seeing the word used online to describe her, she was bewildered and a bit irritated. She was in her 40s and childless. Did these people…
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Estimates are still soaring past the $20 million mark and canvases still bear the signatures of dependable ringers like Warhol, Basquiat and Picasso. But there is a shadow looming over the spring auction season that begins Monday.A…
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It may not sound like must-see TV: eight friends sitting around a table playing Dungeons & Dragons while cracking jokes and moving each other to tears.But for a legion of fans, “Critical Role” — the popular D&D “actual play”…
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The music venue, whose opening has been delayed three times by everything from power supply problems to “part of the ventilation system becoming detached,” has now completed inspection and probably, maybe, definitely will open on…
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