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Under Review A Frank Account of an Unequal Art-World Friendship Orlando Whitfield’s memoir of his fifteen-year friendship with the disgraced art dealer Inigo Philbrick gives a momentous relationship its due, with unusual directness. By Rosa Lyster August 14, 2024 Whitfield was a student when he became close with “the art world’s Bernie Madoff.”Photograph by Kate

Listen–1.0x+ 0:008:54 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Book lovers have all inevitably found themselves slogging through arid prose that stretches on endlessly. Sometimes the culprit is a popular novel whose obnoxious characters you’re desperate to run away from; at other moments, it’s a plot so ludicrous, you can’t suspend

Childcare costs, accessibility needs, geography, ticket price—there are many reasons folks can’t get to the theatre. The pandemic locked us all out for a while, but as theatres began to reopen, so did a new option: live-streamed theatre. Cost has always been a barrier for this workaround, as it can run up to $3 million

New York CNN  —  For more than a century, Americans have been turning to a trusted and reliable source for local news: the radio. Now, the terrestrial broadcasts are facing an existential threat as listeners and advertising dollars rapidly shift, forcing stations to slash staff and even sign off the air for good. This week,

Infinite Scroll Popping the Bubble of Noise-Cancelling Headphones A new Japanese-designed device promises to “unmute the world,” as if it were no longer possible to do so simply by uncovering your ears. By Kyle Chayka August 14, 2024 Illustration by Ariel Davis Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story We live in

View image in fullscreen Splashing in the Seine, diving in the Danube: the drive to make cities swimmable Campaigners and architects around the world are turning previously polluted rivers and harbours into the perfect places for a refreshing dip. So will we soon be swimming to work? On a summer morning in the Swiss city

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This image could be hung in a gallery, but it started life as a tiny chunk of a woman’s brain. In 2014, a woman undergoing surgery for epilepsy had a tiny chunk of her cerebral cortex removed. This cubic millimeter of tissue has allowed Harvard and Google researchers to produce the most detailed wiring diagram

New company leaders sometimes stake their claims with wide-sweeping changes to programming and rosters. But an “out with the old, in with the new” mentality is hard to execute at a ballet company where the outgoing party is a beloved founding artistic director—one who steered the organization for 44 years. Ma Cong. Photo by Sarah

Betty A. Prashker, one of the first women to rise high in publishing’s editorial ranks and an enterprising editor of feminist nonfiction, died on July 30 at her daughter’s home in the Berkshires. She was 99. After graduating from Vassar College in 1945, Prashker took a job as a copyeditor at Doubleday, which she left

If you work in the arts, you are used to staying tight-lipped about new works in development, and artists tend not to share their ideas beyond a trusted few. But, aside from being a routine habit, there are a number of financial and legal reasons for strict confidentiality around creative work. First, it’s a good

Archaeologists have discovered a decorated mosaic believed to have been built nearly 2,000 years ago, along with several other Roman structures in northwestern England. The decorated floor covering depicts stylized dolphins and several species of fish. It was located in a home likely owned by a wealthy and powerful family, according to a press release

Klaudio Rodriguez has been named Executive Director and CEO of the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, following nearly two years of uncertainty and controversy at the venerable local instituion. Rodriguez comes to the city from New York, where he spent seven years with the Bronx Museum of the Arts, since 2020 as executive director.

After years of planning and construction, Indonesia’s new capital city is set to be inaugurated on August 17, despite the fact that the site remains an active construction zone. The new city of Nusantara, on the island of Borneo, will replace Jakarta as the national capital, moving the seat of government about 800 miles away.

A Banksy artwork has appeared at the London zoo, depicting a gorilla letting a seal and several birds escape while the eyes of three other animals peer outside. The black stencil image on the security shutters at the zoo is the ninth animal-themed work claimed by the popular street artist in nine days (like prior

View image in fullscreen ‘Rebuilt from scratch’: how Edinburgh international film festival got back on its feet In a ‘radical rethink’ after its crisis two years ago, the festival returns with world premieres, a new £50,000 prize and a focus on industry Peter Bradshaw’s 12 best picks of the festival The trailblazing producer Lynda Myles

The program was not a crowd pleaser. But the crowd seemed open to whatever they were given at this closing Aug. 10 concert of the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center’s summer season. From a distance, the program looked a lot like a particularly wide-reaching New York Philharmonic subscription concert, but with key difference. No cellphone

“She was the only woman in the world worth dying for.” It was these words, which I came across in a reference to Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, that first caught my attention. They were written by an admirer, not the man she devoted her life to—her famous husband, Robert Louis Stevenson. But Louis, as

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University has decided against removing from campus buildings the name of a family whose company makes the powerful painkiller OxyContin, despite protests from parents whose children fatally overdosed. The decision last month by the Harvard Corporation to retain Arthur M. Sackler’s name on a museum building and second building runs counter

Charles R. Cross, a Seattle-based music journalist who edited the city’s preeminent alt-weekly, the Rocket, and penned bestselling biographies of Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and other major rock figures, died Friday at age 67. “We are sorry to share that Charles Cross has passed,” the writer’s family said in a statement. “He died peacefully of