Art and Culture

The project is part of a global trend of repurposing old roads and railways into places for pedestrians and wildlife. While the skywalk won’t fully open until at least the 2030s, the expressway was briefly closed off in May to give…
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The current Internet landscape sometimes feels like the Zone in Andrei Tarkovsky’s film “Stalker”: directionless, inexplicable, bound to change in confusing ways. Our social-media feeds don’t offer much except the forward acceleration of…
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Researchers have known for years that multicultural experiences can boost one’s creativity (Chang, Hsu, Shih, & Chen, 2014). Consider the evidence. In one study, persons who had lived or studied abroad generated…
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A federal judge has denied the motion to dismiss a massive copyright lawsuit targeting over a 1,000 reggaeton songs from such globally recognized acts as Bad Bunny and J Balvin. The allegations claim these acts and more…
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This is Street Wars, a weekly series on the battle for space on New York’s streets and sidewalks.On a chilly Saturday evening in April, Kevin Daloia took a bicycle that he had painted white and locked it to a pole on East 161st Street…
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Documentary film-maker Joshua Charow sought out the creatives still inhabiting New York’s former industrial spaces - factories, warehouses and theatres – as the last of…
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I’m a middle school librarian and I just got the latest issue of Booklist in the mail. I’m looking for books for my middle school readers. I search through all of the reviews for youth and find almost no titles for seventh and…
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In the face of human-caused climate change, paperbacks and e-readers each have pros and cons.…
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The school was created by the 1985 merger of the Philadelphia College of Art and the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts.The news comes in the wake of similar closings nationwide, in part because of pressures on higher education…
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It’s bad. So “a coalition of nonprofit arts organizations in Rhode Island is calling on the state to use $18 million of the state’s $1.2 billion share of American Rescue Plan Act funding from Congress to help the arts industry recover…
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