Art and Culture

“A scared-sounding young man told me that there was a monster in his closet. Obviously, I was supposed to tell him to open the door and look inside, so that the story could begin. But something about the darkness, the solitude,…
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Shortly after a new Banksy mural had sprung up on the wall of a residential building in north London, it was defaced with white paint. The artwork features a life-size stencil of a woman holding a pressure washer and…
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Publishing, even among culture industries, is notoriously sleepy as a capitalist enterprise. Many enter the field—and take spiritual compensation in lieu of higher pay, shaping employee demographics—because they…
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Pacific Northwest Ballet goes through roughly 2,000 pairs of pointe shoes per year. New York City Ballet uses 500 pairs per month during Nutcracker season. Some pros exhaust multiple pairs of shoes in a single performance day. Stats…
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The UK scientist Mary Archer will scrutinise how Arts Council England (ACE) distributes public subsidies as part of a wide-ranging review overseen by the UK government.The assessment is part of the Cabinet Office’s cross-government…
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UMG played an instrumental role in bringing together a coalition of 150-plus organizations both in and outside the industry last year for the Human Artistry Campaign (HAC), which established a framework for the responsible use of AI for…
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“The Marionette Show,” by Martha Graham, for her trio: (from left) Thelma Biracree, Evelyn Sabin, and Betty Macdonald (November 18, 1926). Courtesy Farrar,…
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American Bible Society announced it will shutter its Faith and Liberty Discovery Center (FLDC), a Bible museum it invested more than $60 million into, after less than three years in operation. ABS had projected that the museum, centrally…
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PARIS (AP) — The restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris following a tragic blaze in April 2019 is a story of dedication and recovery.The iconic medieval monument immortalized in history,…
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“The encounter with Weill’s music, which I had never heard before because it was not allowed to be played in the Third Reich, was absolutely overwhelming for me because it opened up a tonal but completely new sound world,” Mr. Reimann…
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