Art and Culture

Harrison Ford can’t escape the two-and-a-half-minute fanfare that John Williams composed for his most famous cinematic hero, Indiana Jones. “As I often remind John, his music follows me everywhere I go — literally,” Ford says. “When I…
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Archaeologists in Italy recently uncovered a 2,000-year-old fresco in remarkable condition on the walls of the House of Leda, a Pompeii mansion under excavation since 2018 that’s recognized for its exquisite art. Painted as if it…
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The original production featured 64 arias, stripped of their original context and set against a collage of other materials in ways that could be harmonious or not; no two performances are the same. And navigating that forest can be a…
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Pianist Eric Guo did everything but travel through time to commune with Chopin. On March 1, the day celebrated as Frederic Chopin’s birthday, the 21-year-old Canadian played…
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By John Killacky This biography of Keith Haring is a compendium of vivid, first-person narratives that provide an engaging insider’s perspective on the artist’s life. Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch.…
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UPDATE: The House Energy & Commerce Committee unanimously passed legislation to compel ByteDance to divest TikTok or face having the social media platform banned on app stores or web hosting services. The committee voted…
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Citizens of the European Union live in an internet built and ruled by foreign powers. Most people in the EU use an American search engine, shop on an American ecommerce site, thumb American phones, and scroll through American social…
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Is it possible to write a satirical campus novel anymore? Satire requires exaggeration and the pointed introduction of absurdity, but it is hard to see how modern university life could be further embellished in these respects. As…
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After two years dark, the Kharkiv National Opera and Ballet company has built an underground bunker with a complete auditorium in it.Says general director Ihor Toulouzov, “We want to bring life back to Kharkiv, including cultural…
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In the mountains of Santa Monica: Otto Klemperer, Prince Hubertus von Löwenstein, Arnold Schoenberg, and Ernst Toch | Credit: UCLA, Ernst Toch Archive (Rights: Courtesy of the Ernst Toch Archive, 1, Music Library Special Collections,…
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