Art and Culture

The conductor and musical director of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) has criticised the “misguided wokeism” behind what he called a “great suspicion” of opera and British cultural achievements.Antonio Pappano, 64, has been the…
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In early February, strange news appeared about Warner Brothers Discovery’s plans for one of its films, a live-action-with-animation spin on Looney Tunes called “Coyote vs. Acme.” The studio did not plan to release the movie. It had tried…
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An aspiring artist who made his living working for the modern art museum in Munich must have harbored dreams of fame and adulation when he hatched a plot to secretly put his own work on the…
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Some have attributed the trend to the tourists who fill many of the seats at Broadway shows; they may be less familiar with theater and therefore especially enthusiastic. But standing ovations are the default even at shows and plays…
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With 2024 a year of acute financial distress and outright closures in the for-profit journalism world, some commentators are arguing that nonprofit startups have become the great hope for the future. The continued growth of the…
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As artificial intelligence creeps further into people’s daily lives, so do worries about it. At the most alarmist are concerns about AI going rogue and terminating its human masters. But behind the calls for a pause on the…
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PITTSBURGH: Theatre artists rely on several sources of feedback for their work: the size of the audience, feedback from impassioned directors, standing ovations. But with increasing layoffs at newspapers and other media…
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Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí explored the workings of his subconscious by painting his dreams. ... Here, he does some sketching following a nap.Bettmann Archive “What’s the best work of art you’ve ever created?” “What’s your Zodiac…
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“Staged at a massive round table for 25 audience members, covered with 330 pounds of dried Irish peat,” Luke Casserly’s Distillation “is not easy to pigeonhole. It’s part TED Talk, part community-building and…
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They were called Pilobolus Dance Theatre, or simply Pilobolus. On the mid-1990s night that I first saw them—one of the best nights I’d ever had in a theater—the company was in its twenty-fifth season and already long praised for its wit,…
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