Art and Culture

Alex Curley | for E&P Magazine Last July, I predicted that up to 15% of public media stations were at risk of closing following the end of public media’s federal funding based on…
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Starting with the 1969 premiere of the “ABC Movie of the Week” anthology (remember “Brian’s Song”?) and continuing through 1970s “event” TV including movies “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” and “The Execution of Private Slovik”…
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The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) announced Friday that it has a $600 million fundraising campaign in the works. The goal is to support the institution’s long-term health—and it is nearly 80 percent of the way there. As it…
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Literary credibility in the age of AI.Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit?LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature,…
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“The Washington National Opera (WNO) filed a lawsuit Thursday, alleging that the Kennedy Center failed to return more than $17 million in donations made to the organization after its split from the venue earlier this year.” – The…
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From Diane Keaton’s bowler hats and polka dot scarfs, to Gene Hackman’s used paint brushes, to Terence Stamp’s love letters from Jean Shrimpton and even Matthew Perry’s black leather wallet (his credit cards and AAA membership card still…
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Update, June 11, 2026: Google has provided us with a statement on the ruling. The company says its AI overviews are designed to "reflect" information that already exists on the web. "We invest deeply in the quality of AI Overviews to…
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On a Saturday afternoon in late May, Carlos Menchaca and Angelina Ramirez moved around a dance studio at the University of Akron’s Guzzeta Hall. The longtime friends performed a work-in-process showing of their latest…
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The critic Henry Krehbiel notoriously called Gustav Mahler’s New York career a failure, undone by “foolishness and naivete.” Most accounts of Mahler’s life take issue with this opinion, or refuse to take it seriously. But Krehbiel…
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Good Morning, David Hockney died at 88 (AP), and the argument that ran through his seventy-year career is one we’re still having: a new tool — the Polaroid, the fax machine, the iPad — is an invitation, not a threat. He…
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