Art and Culture

In 1950, a U.S. Army psyops officer named Paul Linebarger used a pseudonym to publish a science-fiction story titled “Scanners Live in Vain” in a pulp magazine. It was about a man named Martel who works for the “deep state” in the far…
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The models who set the ideal skin tone for photo developing with the most controversial word in human history, 'normal.'In her 1977 book On Photography, Susan Sontag wrote that photos not only depict reality but also reflect the viewer’s…
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Landing by helicopter at a women’s prison where the Vatican has mounted its pavilion for the Venice Biennale international art exhibition, Pope Francis on Sunday told the women incarcerated there that they had a “special place in my…
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This article is part of our Museums special section about how institutions are striving to offer their visitors more to see, do and feel.Michigan State University and Yale University are very different types of higher education…
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Cookie in the Kitchen's cookie collection riffing on Taylor Swift's relationship with football player Travis Kelce. Image: Cookie in the Kitchen The official Taylor Swift online store is chockablock with earrings, hoodies, vinyl and…
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Adiescar Chase: “Some of it’s scary, but it’s really fun.” – BBC Source link
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Moses McKenzie, 26, won last year’s Hawthornden prize, previously awarded to Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith, for his 2022 debut, An Olive Grove in Ends, set among Jamaicans and Somalis in Bristol, where he grew up. William Waldegrave, a…
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This essay was adapted from Jacqueline Nesi’s newsletter, Techno Sapiens. Subscribe here. I’m an assistant professor at Brown University, where I study the impact of digital technology on kids’ development and mental…
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Recently, Billy Bragg showed his two young granddaughters a little promo film he put together celebrating his 40 years of making records. The girls were nonplussed by the early scenes on picket lines and spiky festival stages, but…
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Young cultural researchers need greater access to the UK’s rich archival resources so untold stories can be brought to light, according to the curator of an exhibition that documents five centuries of Black British music, from the Tudor…
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