Art and Culture

Oscars 2024. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Jimmy Kimmel…
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William Whitworth, who wrote revealing profiles in The New Yorker and polished the prose of some of the nation’s celebrated writers as its associate editor before transplanting that magazine’s painstaking standards to The Atlantic, where…
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The songwriter behind hits for Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue has described the acceleration in use of artificial intelligence in the music industry as “terrifying” because of its potential to replace songwriters.Guy Chambers, who has…
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The state legislature hadn’t funded the arts at all during its regular session in 2023, so “news was both good and bad Thursday … when, in the closing hours of the short legislative session, lawmakers approved less than half of…
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In 2003, three decades into her career, Dominique Blanc experienced every actor’s worst nightmare: The phone stopped ringing.Approaching 50, she was one of France’s most celebrated performers, fresh off an acclaimed stage run in a…
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The International Booker longlist signals a “second ‘boom’ in Latin American fiction”, said judges, with a quarter of the nominated authors being South American.Argentinian poet Selva Almada, Venezuelan writer Rodrigo Blanco Calderón,…
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“… this project develops a prototype AI system that acts as a virtual assistance to violin students, teachers, and supervising parents, and like a human teacher it also provides explanations. This is accomplished through two unique…
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Music permeates almost every human culture on earth. The oldest discovered musical instruments date back over 40,000 years to the Stone Age. But scientists believe music itself could be much older than that,…
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At the end of last year, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced that the UK was starting a consultation about signing the 2003 Unesco convention on the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. This would…
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Of the thousands of German-speaking Jews who fled from Nazi-occupied Europe to the comparative paradise of Los Angeles, Arnold Schoenberg seemed especially unlikely to make himself at home. He was, after all, the most implacable…
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