Art and Culture

On a quiet street in New York City’s Ridgewood neighborhood stands an unassuming, windowless white building. Its lone door, covered with an amalgamation of cut-outs, looks like a teenager’s bedroom; the building numbers are displayed via…
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For many young people growing up in Britain, their first music festival is a rite of passage; watching live music in a field with thousands of others, sleeping under the stars, and spending time with friends old and new.Green Man…
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Keeping pace with Hollywood’s awards horserace.…
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If you’d met me when I was 8, you’d likely have found me wearing a tricorner hat. My role model that year was Johnny Tremain, the kid hero of a Disney film about the American Revolution. The occasion was, of course, the nation’s…
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A few days ago, the New York Times ran a provocative listicle entitled “What Is the Definitive Movie About America?” Their writers came up with a couple of inspired choices, like “Dazed and Confused,” along with a handful of…
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“Fandom communities are still mostly relying on vibes. Most fanfics aren’t judged by a tool like the AO3 skin, but by tells’ that could include anything from specific sentence structures — like the notorious ‘it’s not X, it’s…
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This week we collected 139 stories. Here’s what I learned: It’s difficult to deny that something structural is failing the arts. Week after week we’ve been documenting a collapse across the sector that transcends any simple bad…
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This Week’s Highlights: The best stories this week were about recovery — not the economic kind, the archival kind. Scientists read the complete text of a Herculaneum scroll for the first time, 2,000 years after Vesuvius…
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Arts Engines highlights the perspectives of the thought leaders and game-changers who are creating significant impact in the field of the arts. As the only arts show of its kind with an African-American host, it is produced in…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Actor and activist Danny Glover, best known for starring as an easygoing police officer in the “Lethal Weapon” franchise, has revealed he has Alzheimer’s disease.The four-time Emmy…
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