Art and Culture

This article is taken from the April 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. The term “artificial intelligence” is…
Read More...

VENICE — Something is peeking in around the edges of the 2024 Venice Biennale, the world’s preeminent art gathering held every two years, which just opened in this fragile city built on the muck of a grand lagoon. Call it humanity, or…
Read More...

A $42 million project that will add new buildings, landscaping, and accessibility to the site of the iconic Rothko Chapel recently broke ground in Houston, Texas. Over the next two years, the site will see construction of…
Read More...

I finally locate the legendary Schneiders Buero, a shop selling analogue synthesizers in Berlin’s Kotti neighbourhood. Up two flights of stairs, the music machinery on offer includes brands such as Moog and Buchla, as well as…
Read More...

For this DATA BYTE, the DDP research team gathered information for 179 ballet companies either founded or co-founded by women between 1929 and 2024 to provide an archival tool for tracking the historical contributions of women to the…
Read More...

David Butterfield’s recent Critic article on the declining interest in humanities points out that humanities…
Read More...

In the moments before the December memorial service for Bryan VanCampen, the lack of attendees threatened to provide a lazy metaphor on the demise of journalism. Nobody, Beth Saulnier thought, shows up for anything anymore. She had…
Read More...

Publishers, writers, and progressive organizations across the children’s book industry aren’t letting the book bans hold them back. Instead, they’re turning the bans into a rallying cry to publish even more diverse characters and points…
Read More...

SAG-AFTRA is urging members to support a new agreement with the major record labels, which establishes conditions under which singers’ voices can be replicated with AI. The union announced a tentative agreement with the labels —…
Read More...

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) has become musea non grata to the Italian government after a yearslong dispute over a Pentelic marble copy of a lost bronze by the ancient Greek sculptor Polykleitos depicting the…
Read More...