Art and Culture

The pandemic was supposed to be the death of the great American city. The rise of remote work unleashed an exodus to the Sun Belt and suburbs, leaving behind empty subway cars, abandoned offices, and desolate downtowns. Violent crime…
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Former Colorado Public Radio host and reporter Vic Vela, who rose to prominence in recent years through his podcast about addiction, recovery and mental health, filed complaints Tuesday with state and federal disability…
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Daniel Sikkema, the ex-husband of the New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, who is embroiled in allegations that he orchestrated his former partner’s murder in Brazil earlier this year, was arrested in New York on Wednesday, March 20 for…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Lorrie Moore won the prize for fiction on Thursday, while Judy Blume and her longtime ally in the fight against book bans, the American Library Association were given honorary…
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M. Emmet Walsh, the wily character actor who became an audience favorite for his deliciously despicable performances in such films as Blood Simple, Blade Runner, Brubaker and The Jerk, has died. He was 88. Walsh died…
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“The board now presents the San Francisco Symphony as a survivor forgoing experimental treatment and in need of a cautious caretaker. … What has changed over the years is that many boards have become increasingly corporate,…
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TikTok's growth stalled in the final quarter of 2023 and even went into reverse in the US.Many young users have signed on to the short-form video app since its launch in 2016.Those core users are…
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A tour of four English theatres has been announced for Player Kings, in which Sir Ian McKellen is starring as Shakespeare’s Falstaff for the first time.The play, adapted by director Robert Icke from both parts of Henry IV, is currently…
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In this special edition, I interview National Endowment for the Arts Chair Maria Rosario Jackson and U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos about the mutually reinforcing roles of the arts and the social sciences, and about artists’…
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“The Floyd County (Va.) Public Schools have suspended a One Division, One Book community reading of Katherine Applegate’s Wishtree following complaints that the middle-grade novel depicts a monoecious red oak, a tree with…
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