Art and Culture

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Toil and Trouble This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. The earliest existing eyewitness account of a performance of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth comes to us from…
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A new lawsuit claims Netflix did not safeguard an as-yet-unreleased Nicolas Cage WWII movie, which allegedly was just sitting around on a hard drive until somebody stole it. That may read like a Hollywood elevator pitch for a movie…
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According to its Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages—which counts business establishments by industry down to the county level going back to 1990—the U.S. has lost a fifth of its movie theaters and nearly a third of its bowling…
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Assassin's Creed: Odyssey player count soared for the first time in years since Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey adaptation released earlier this month, according to data gathered by Alinea Analytics.Alinea head of market analysis Rhys…
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“Efforts were initially focused around putting in simple black-and-white guardrails, such as forbidding a model from talking about bombs entirely. But these proved clumsy and easy to circumvent. Now, companies are pursuing methods that…
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I became a Sonny Rollins fan on my 13th birthday, when my dad took me for the first time to his favorite record store in Portland, Oregon. He gave me $50, which in 1987, netted me twelve LPs. One was a European bootleg of Moving Out. It…
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Andris Nelsons and The Boston Symphony Orchestra. The Boston Globe pictureDavid Allen’s recent New York Times piece on the Boston Symphony Orchestra is thoughtful, elegantly written, and raises important questions about one of America’s…
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BERLIN — An experiment with artificial intelligence at the famed annual Richard Wagner festival in the southeastern German town of Bayreuth drew boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators…
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There are more than 35,000 active museums in the United States, according to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Narrow the aperture to New York State and there are over 600 institutions; in New York…
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