Art and Culture

Joseph-Beth Booksellers, which has two locations in metro Cincinnati, is the third independent retail business that B&N has acquired in three years. The chain bought Denver’s Tattered Cover in 2024 and the Bay Area’s Books…
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The London revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George has been scrapped after Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey both exited the production. “The planned 2027 production of Sunday in the Park With George at the…
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The current touring production, which dates from 2002, will close on August 15 of next year, allowing director Taymor and the rest of the creative team to reimagine and update elements of the staging. – Playbill Source link
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The famed French artist Claude Lévêque, who represented the nation at the 2009 Venice Biennale, has been ordered to stand trial in a French criminal court for rape and sexual assault of three minors, Libération has revealed. His…
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The process to select a successor to Mr. Bunch, who the Smithsonian said would stay through the end of the year, will offer Mr. Trump his best chance to exert control over the Smithsonian. Here is what to know about how the institution…
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 With certain fiscal collapse within weeks, the board seeks to determine what recognition and acknowledgement will comply with the Court’s decisions in Beatty v. Trump et al. and with its statutory obligations, and wishes to explore…
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As AI-generated writing floods the internet, more people are trying to detect which creators are using such tools to spin up copy. That means writers penning all their own work—and people who acknowledge using chatbots for help—are…
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Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or…
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Putting together a theater season is like three-dimensional chess, a game of calendaring, budgeting, and logistics nonprofits play long before the lights go up on their first show. Three years ago, City Paper spoke to area…
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This morning John Galliano withdrew from his own Met retrospective. “John Galliano: Horizons” was announced in July as the Costume Institute’s spring 2027 show.Not soon thereafter, the New York Times reported the backlash. A major donor…
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