Art and Culture

If architects are people who like to think their way around challenges, building schools in Burkina Faso must be the dream job. The challenges, after all, are legion: scorching temperatures in the high seasons, limited funds, materials,…
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The 2021 Academy Awards ceremony was a big event in my house. A childhood friend of mine, Jasmila Žbanić, was up for an Oscar in the foreign film category. She was the director of Quo vadis, Aida?, a movie depicting the genocide the…
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Before Leonard Bernstein, it was a given that U.S. orchestras wanted their maestros to be European. Yet by 2008, American conductors were music directors in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis and…
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Violist Hank Dutt, 71, who’s been with the group for 46 years, and violinist John Sherba, 69, who joined one year after Dutt, will leave the group as the season ends in June. They leave violinist, founder and artistic director…
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Note: This is the last in a four-part series reflecting on Audience 98, one of several major research projects that helped fuel public radio’s decades-long run of audience and revenue growth. This piece considers the industry’s…
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Apple has been hit with a fine of €1.84 billion (about $2 billion) by European Union antitrust regulators over its App Store rules, and has been told it cannot stop music services from advertising cheaper subscription deals outside of…
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In this DEIA-oriented era, I may incur censure by mildly disparaging The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism—an exhibition that, before its Feb. 25 public opening, had been prematurely hailed as “the Met’s new blockbuster,”…
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Teachers and other staff in the Houston Independent school district (HISD), which serves the fourth most populous city in the US, are calling for the state-appointed superintendent of the district to be removed amid a surge in…
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Censorship is on the rise globally, say artists and art professionals: two groups that carry the unofficial but historic burden of speaking truth to power and offering political critique on behalf of wider society. This is what Dashka…
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On election night in 2022, veteran journalist Tracy Brown walked through the newsrooms of the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ public radio and saw a future for local journalism. It was the first election after the melding of the Sun-Times…
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