Art and Culture

John Philip Sousa Following up on my chat with Aaron Cohen for “Arts Fuse,” I offer some further thoughts about the retrieval of cultural memory versus the instant gratification of screens: About a dozen years ago I was…
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Featuring elegant proportions, hand-carved cornicing, expansive stone doorsteps and porches, and with a flourish of columns, this house and others like it have all been built in recent years – but without a backstory of beheaded queens…
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NEW YORK THEATRE BALLET is the most widely seen chamber ballet company in the United States. For nearly five decades, NYTB has occupied a unique place in NYC’s cultural landscape: preserving important works of ballet history;…
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NEW YORK THEATRE BALLET is the most widely seen chamber ballet company in the United States. For nearly five decades, NYTB has occupied a unique place in NYC’s cultural landscape: preserving important works of ballet history;…
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Good Morning, Colin Layfield, a University of Malta lecturer, and Lisa Fagin Davis, a medieval-handwriting expert, argue that the Voynich manuscript, the undeciphered 15th-century codex at Yale, has been read in the wrong order.…
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The industrial port city of Bilbao in northern Spain’s Basque Country may be most famous for Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum but a major new Norman Foster-designed expansion to the nearby Museo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum) opens to…
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Facing new competition in the audiobook market from Spotify, Audible is turning to AI and other technology to enhance the listening experience. On Thursday, the Amazon-owned company introduced three new features that will allow…
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They say it's always sunny in Los Angeles, but inside the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, you can count on it to pour eight shows a week. That's thanks to a climactic moment in "The Outsiders" musical in which real water falls from the…
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Where billionaires in the past operated in the physical world, ushered in societal change as a byproduct of their innovation, and used their sizable largesses to try uplifting lives, today’s billionaires stretch the limits of…
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As museums across the world grapple with their impact on the planet, conservators face a particular challenge: how to ensure that preserving the past does not compromise the future.The traditional solvents, climate-control systems and…
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