Art and Culture

David Hockney’s departure has drawn obituaries from across the art world and the popular press, which is testimony to his eminence whether his paintings and drawings are considered a simple pleasure to look at or regressive to…
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Our long international nightmare is over: Spotify has quietly restored the original 2D app icon for the iPhone after about a month-long takeover by a disco-ball-ified version of the logo, which many users had expressed a…
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On May 14, almost exactly 43 years later, Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean was No. 1 again, prancing to the top of Spotify’s global chart following the release of the biopic “Michael.” – The Wall Street Journal Source link
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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.No event at the Kennedy Center in recent…
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It’s spring in Prague and as I write my desk is covered in pollen. Morning bees browse around my window, foraging for materials. I was recently translating some verses of Virgil, Book IV of the Georgics, which is dedicated…
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The summer musical coming to the National Theatre is all about real people, but here’s a strange feeling – many of them are literally sitting around me tonight. In a buzzy, early preview for Pride: The Musical at Cardiff’s Sherman…
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Gatekeeper, here, doesn’t mean the patriarchal bogeyman of progressive fever dreams. It means the picky curator who maintains a necessary membrane between your half-formed, typo-addled thoughts and the wider world. It means the…
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Dahlias thrust their colours skywards; hollyhocks frame a child at play; peasants tend cabbages; water lilies dot the surface of a pond. The “impressionist garden” captures all of these moments and more. But why were Monet, Renoir,…
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A man wheels a garbage bin outside of The John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Saturday, June 6, 2026,…
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Charleston's International African American Museum will furlough all staff, including leadership, due to financial pressure, according to a statement from museum officials. The temporary 20-day furlough will be…
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