Art and Culture

CNN  —  One of the earliest books in existence is expected to fetch upwards of $2.6m when it goes up for auction later this year. The…
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The Conservatives have spent months — and three Prime Ministers — trailing behind Labour in the polls. Like a glacier, imperceptibly yet inexorably bearing down on a mountain village, electoral catastrophe…
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An exhibition of sculptures installed in various public sites around Venice for the upcoming Biennale is garnering criticism from local community members, who argue that the display distracts from the city’s existing cultural…
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This article is taken from the April 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. The Western liberal legacy has reframed “freedom”…
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In the spring of 1825, Ludwig van Beethoven was struck by a gut ailment so severe that he thought he might die. That summer, after he recovered, he returned to the string quartet he’d been writing before his illness—Quartet No. 15 in A…
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Edgility Consulting is excited to support the Baltimore School for the Arts’s search for a Foundation Director. The Baltimore School for the Arts Foundation is the fundraising partner of the Baltimore School for the Arts. The…
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“I FOUND IT extremely honest, forthright, and moving in ways I had not expected it to be,” Toni Morrison wrote to an aspiring novelist in 1977, “but it is a shuddering book and one that offers no escape for any reader whatsoever.” Still,…
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Evidently, the time is ripe for a survey of the branch of cultural production concerned with the end of the world. And yet, tales have been told about it for as long as we’ve been doing story. – Literary Review Source link
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For half a century, the Sernesi family lived in a storied villa overlooking Florence, in which the Renaissance artist Michelangelo was raised and later owned. The property came with several buildings, an orchard and a drawing of a…
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“This campaign is going to solve a major problem that the symphony has wrestled with for years, of not having a big enough endowment to help balance its budget. It’s giving us future stability in a way that we’ve never been able to…
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