Art and Culture

UPDATED: Rachel Smolkin is departing CNN after 10 years, most recently as senior vice president of global news for CNN Digital Worldwide. Smolkin will become the next president and CEO of Oregon Public Broadcasting.…
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Local News The MFA will invite artists to create annual exhibits that seek to "re-contextualize" a controversial statue of a Native man at the museum's…
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Italy has begun work on what the government claims will be “the biggest cultural infrastructure in Europe”. Part of the newly renovated Albergo dei Poveri in Naples, once a vast hospital complex and almshouse that is now largely disused,…
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Explore If we heeded most of the advice we hear about the internet, we might…
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The Vice President of Education & Community Engagement will be responsible for designing, developing, and evaluating all education and community engagement programs. Supervising a professional staff and committed volunteers, they…
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When he moves to Houston in August to take on that role, he’ll become one of the first Black men to lead a major arts organization in the city. Dereck Charles Livingston is taking over the role from current artistic director Kenn…
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Back in the 90s, when Stephen Witt was attending the University of Chicago, he stumbled on to something many kids did at the time. “One day, I turned on the computer, went into a chat channel and discovered all this music out there ready…
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I have been a freelance book reviewer for twenty years, which means that several times a week, the postal carrier delivers packages of books—some that I requested, some that I didn’t know I wanted, and some that I won’t ever want. A…
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The Parthenon marbles are rarely out of the news. Most recently, Turkish officials have rejected claims by the British Museum that British diplomat Lord Elgin was given permission from Ottoman authorities to remove the marbles from…
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The region, we’re told, extends from the deserts of Sonora to the straits of Tierra del Fuego, encompassing 7.7 million square miles that are home to 660 million people who share two Latinate languages: Spanish…
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