Art and Culture

A year ago James Marriott had a Substack post on “the dawn of the post-literate society” that as I write has over 21,000 likes and 6,000 restacks: clearly something that struck a chord. And now we have a book length treatment of…
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An Erato release, headed up by harpsichordist Jean Rondeau, of the complete works of Louis Couperin has won the top prize at the 2026 Gramophone Awards. Among other honorees were Imogen Cooper (Lifetime Achievement), the Bamberg…
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A powerful Democratic lawmaker has called for a criminal investigation into the former Bard College president Leon Botstein after congressional investigators uncovered an email from Botstein to the accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein…
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It’s been more than a year since the Trump administration dismantled Voice of America, the largest U.S. international broadcaster, saying “taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda.” Yet the agency is costing the…
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For almost a century, The Jazz Singer has been celebrated as the world’s first feature-length film to include synchronised dialogue (known as a “talkie”), and English as the first language of cinema. But a chance discovery threatens to…
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She deserved the prize, first of all, as the major practitioner of literary nonfiction. The committee has historically overlooked this genre. – 3 Quarks Daily Source link
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Because data, and how we present it, tells a story, it’s important to transform results responsibly into visuals. A good visualization can show you really interesting patterns in your data; however, a bad visualization, like truncating…
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Theaster Gates poses for a portrait at the Pickard China factory in Antioch, Ill. The 53-year-old, Chicago-based…
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On 29 March 1516, the Venetian Senate voted to create the world’s first ‘ghetto’. All Jews then living in the city – as well as any others who might come later – were ordered to move immediately to a small island in the northeastern…
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The internet is full of resources for self-directed learning: for any subject, you can easily find blog posts about essential texts, links to university syllabi, and hours of YouTube lectures. When I attempted to make use of these…
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