Art and Culture

An aspiring artist who made his living working for the modern art museum in Munich must have harbored dreams of fame and adulation when he hatched a plot to secretly put his own work on the…
Read More...

Some have attributed the trend to the tourists who fill many of the seats at Broadway shows; they may be less familiar with theater and therefore especially enthusiastic. But standing ovations are the default even at shows and plays…
Read More...

With 2024 a year of acute financial distress and outright closures in the for-profit journalism world, some commentators are arguing that nonprofit startups have become the great hope for the future. The continued growth of the…
Read More...

As artificial intelligence creeps further into people’s daily lives, so do worries about it. At the most alarmist are concerns about AI going rogue and terminating its human masters. But behind the calls for a pause on the…
Read More...

PITTSBURGH: Theatre artists rely on several sources of feedback for their work: the size of the audience, feedback from impassioned directors, standing ovations. But with increasing layoffs at newspapers and other media…
Read More...

Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí explored the workings of his subconscious by painting his dreams. ... Here, he does some sketching following a nap.Bettmann Archive “What’s the best work of art you’ve ever created?” “What’s your Zodiac…
Read More...

“Staged at a massive round table for 25 audience members, covered with 330 pounds of dried Irish peat,” Luke Casserly’s Distillation “is not easy to pigeonhole. It’s part TED Talk, part community-building and…
Read More...

They were called Pilobolus Dance Theatre, or simply Pilobolus. On the mid-1990s night that I first saw them—one of the best nights I’d ever had in a theater—the company was in its twenty-fifth season and already long praised for its wit,…
Read More...

Salman Rushdie has said that his first thought upon seeing the man who would stab him on stage in August 2022 was: “So it’s you. Here you are.”“It felt like something coming out of the distant past and trying to drag me back in time, if…
Read More...

Yoni Bokser is a lifelong New Yorker who has worked in government, politics, policy and economic development at the city, state, and international levels. At Empire State Development, his role is to make New York State the best place to…
Read More...