Art and Culture

After a life and career around Europe that might euphemistically be described as picaresque, da Ponte fled to Philadelphia and New York, ran a grocery store in rural Pennsylvania, and ended up as Columbia University’s first professor of…
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My mother, back in a less gentle era of parenting, had a characteristic reply to the complaints of bored children, often uttered just before she smacked you: If you’re bored, you’re boring. She wasn’t describing the child’s effect on…
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This innovative new venture is perhaps best described as a super-smart business strategy that could also be a blueprint for other entrepreneurs to ignite arts spaces in their own communities, boost social connectedness and give young,…
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A new festival will bring elite-level ballet, modern and jazz forms of dance to West Palm Beach in hopes of supporting new talent and reaching wider audiences.Unlike traditional dance festivals…
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A powerful one-two punch from “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey” has fueled the biggest collective weekend in box office history, with roughly $430 million across all movies in the marketplace. Prior to this, the top…
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By Jens IbsenLet’s face it: these days, classical music is underground; it is no longer part of mainstream culture. By “underground,” I don’t mean that the San Francisco Symphony is punk, but that classical music has become something you…
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Composer Charles Amirkhanian, who co-founded the festival/audio producer/archive in 1992, is retiring as executive and artistic director as of January. Joseph Bohigian, currently Other Minds’ associate director, will become artistic…
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Isaac Butler has written a history of the controversies – dubbed the “culture wars” – that arose in the United States around the arts and arts-adjacent fields from the mid-1980s to around 2000. These were fights over state…
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World 1, a new sports-entertainment company that counts 10 Olympic medalists among its founders pool, is bringing sports to vertical video — and not just highlights. Brett Morris, the CEO of World 1, wants you to watch his…
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