Art and Culture

“The financial crisis (is) so dire that the leadership is willing to take this huge public black eye (Salonen’s departure) rather than let it go on a minute longer. … The perception that the (orchestra) is an organization in…
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum announced today that Claude Monet’s Moulin de Limetz (1888) will leave its walls for Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale in New York in May, where it is expected to…
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The information watchdog is investigating the British Museum over claims it has been overly secretive about some of the most sensitive items in its collection – a group of sacred Ethiopian altar tablets that have been hidden from view at…
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Gertrude Stein con­sid­ered her­self an exper­i­men­tal writer and wrote what The Poet­ry Foun­da­tion calls “dense poems and fic­tions, often devoid of plot or dia­logue,” with the result being that “com­mer­cial pub­lish­ers…
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There’s an argument that you’re the person James Bond matures into: women still want to sleep with you and men want to be you. What’s your secret? MarcoPoloMintI have no idea. I don’t get out much and I don’t identify with whomever…
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More than 400 Canadian artists from the worlds of music, film and literature are denouncing what they describe as "alarming and destructive" anti-trans legislation in an open letter released Sunday by music superstars Tegan and Sara.The…
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Bookseller Katherine Morgan has been an employee at Powell's City of Books since 2017. She was interviewed for OPB's "At Work With" series about what it's like to work at Powell's.Mia Estrada / OPBYour browser does not support the audio…
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The catch is that he left it, and a lot more, with a friend, and never returned. So “the fate of hugely valuable collection of stage costumes, notebooks and never-before heard music is about to be decided.” – BBC Source…
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Not long ago, in the cinema, I found myself trying to focus on Timothée Chalamet’s charming portrayal of a young Willy Wonka, arriving penniless in a new city. What drew my attention instead was the population he encountered there. The…
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Last week, I took my five-year-old nephew to see the new Banksy in London. As we were walking, I told him it was a new, magical tree that had suddenly appeared overnight, put up by a masked man, and that it was up to us to solve the…
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