Art and Culture

Germany's Deutsche Welle (DW) has to save €21 million ($24.7 million) after a deep cut to federal subsidies, the international broadcaster said on Wednesday."Around 160 full-time positions are affected," Deutsche Welle said in a…
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An exhibit detailing the lives of nine people enslaved by President George Washington in Philadelphia is being reinstalled on Thursday, despite an ongoing legal fight between…
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The Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that advises the president and Congress on design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings, is usually made up of experts in…
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Late last year, there was a palpable tension among Victorian arts organisations. Rumours were that one of the most important arts funding rounds was going to be a bloodbath.They were right.A week before Christmas, longstanding arts…
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Like many other words that have been “problematised” using post-structural approaches in the humanities, “care” is no longer simply a benign building block of a sentence, but is now part of a broader academic nexus that underpins its…
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The Metropolitan Opera announced its 2026–27 season — 17 productions, the fewest since the company moved to Lincoln Center in 1966, with more than a third of all performances drawn from just three warhorses (AP). Coincidentally(?),…
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Up-and-coming composers, looking for a break-out moment with their immense musical feel and depth, probably have their arms and tapping their feet wondering to themselves: where are our champions of new classical music? – The…
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EXCLUSIVE: It’s rare – unprecedented? – for The Onion, the satirical news site, to submit an amicus brief in a Supreme Court case, but it happened in Anthony Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio. “Americans can be put in jail for poking…
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Four young women sit together, waiting for the phone to ring. When the call finally comes, their friend’s voice is crackly and hard to make out, but they wait patiently for the signal to improve so they can start discussing their chosen…
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Robert Nichols (1919-2010) Just received in the mail: a masterly bilingual edition in English and German of Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train by Robert Nichols. (The title in German: Langsame Wochenschau Eines Bahnreisenden.) It…
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