Art

If Morteza Mahjoubi’s pianism is alive today, it is not out of devotion or praise for his person, but rather on account of something internal to his virtuosity: a sublime rubato that penetrates beneath the level of surface and releases melodies that cultivate and nourish the soul. Mahjoubi’s tone is so striking, its kinship to

Gustavo Dudamel at the Opéra Garnier, Paris, April 15, 2021. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP On May 25, 2023, Gustavo Dudamel stepped down as music director of the Opéra de Paris, just two years into a contract that was to run until 2027. It was a major blow for the Parisian opera house, which had made the

Recent covers of The Atlantic US current affairs magazine The Atlantic has reached two long-targeted milestones: becoming profitable and topping one million subscriptions. But chief executive Nicholas Thompson is resisting calls to use this moment to relax the paywall, go on a hiring spree or set off a load of experiments. Speaking to Press Gazette’s

Funding of public radio has long had critics in conservative circles, but the recent controversy involving allegations of political bias at NPR is giving new energy to the effort to cut off taxpayer dollars. Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have opened an investigation into NPR following reports of political and ideological bias

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has named Kim Noltemy its new president and chief executive. Noltemy will assume the role July 8, leaving Dallas Symphony Assn., where she has served as president and CEO since 2018. She takes over from interim CEO Daniel Song after L.A. Phil chief Chad Smith decamped for the Boston Symphony last

I have just returned from a trip to Sioux Falls, where I heard Delta David Gier lead the South Dakota Symphony in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3. As readers of this blog know, I regard the SDSO as an American cultural institution that must be studied and emulated. When I arrived at my balcony seat I

View image in fullscreen The big idea: what would culture look like without nightlife? Live music venues, clubs and bars feed creativity and drive social change. But they’re increasingly in danger A few weeks ago, I decided to walk from London Bridge, up through Soho, to Marylebone, to catch a train home to the West Midlands.

View image in fullscreen Royal Ballet and Opera announces ambitious new season – and name change 2024-25 programme includes premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen and Wayne McGregor’s Margaret Atwood ballet MaddAddam Eight new productions, a world premiere, a European premiere – and a name change: the Royal Ballet and Opera, as it is now

AI is getting very good at translating text and speech from one language to another, transposing not just words, but also meaning, and in real time. I previously wrote about the implications for opening up the world’s culture from behind language barriers (for example, only three percent of the world’s literature is translated into English).

View image in fullscreen ‘Nervous of its own boldness’: the (almost) radical rebirth of King’s Cross The two-decade transformation of the industrial site north of King’s Cross station in London, once notorious, now a pleasant enclave of offices, homes, shops, bars and boulevards, is essentially complete. It’s a huge success – and yet is there

Cookie in the Kitchen’s cookie collection riffing on Taylor Swift’s relationship with football player Travis Kelce. Image: Cookie in the Kitchen The official Taylor Swift online store is chockablock with earrings, hoodies, vinyl and other merchandise promoting the star’s latest record-breaking album, The Tortured Poets Department. But there’s also a parallel industry devoted to selling

At a moment when other Irish stars have signed up to represent the likes of Gucci (Paul Mescal), Louis Vuitton (Saoirse Ronan) and Versace (Cillian Murphy), Kerry Condon makes for strikingly unaffected company. “I just want to be a character actor,” she says with a shrug. The last time we spoke she questioned actors who

View image in fullscreen ‘It should feel like an extension of the living room’: radical study centre is named best building in Europe A ‘non-hierarchical’ university space that can be continually altered or even moved has won the EU’s biennial prize for contemporary architecture A lightweight university study centre designed to be easily disassembled has

The Misogyny In Music report, published in January 2024 by the Women And Equalities Committee, was the first major report into the working conditions of women and girls working across the UK music sector. The scope of the report, which I contributed to, was ambitious. It covered performers, songwriters, audio engineers, major music companies and

Listen to this article 00:00 08:22 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. Reading, while not technically medicine, is a fundamentally wholesome activity. It can prevent cognitive decline, improve sleep, and lower blood pressure. In one study, book readers outlived their nonreading peers by nearly two years. People have intuitively understood

Employers have been banned from adopting or enforcing clauses restricting workers’ ability to move to competitors, marking a pivotal change to the employment landscape that could improve working conditions in Hollywood. The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday voted 3-to-2 to ban noncompetes, which typically prevent workers from taking a new job at a rival company

SFCM’s Oak Street building | Courtesy of San Francisco Conservatory of Music “If there’s one thing I want to put across,” declares David H. Stull, “it’s that exciting new ideas lead to resources.” He repeats this twice, seated at a conference table in his president’s office at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Ann Getty

The Turner Prize, the United Kingdom’s most prestigious visual arts honor, has named the four nominees for this year’s edition, which marks 40 years of the program. The nominees are Claudette Johnson, a Black British artist whose feminist figurative work has won renown for decades; Manila-born, London-based Pio Abad, who often examines the legacies of

Infinite Scroll The Dumbphone Boom Is Real A burgeoning cottage industry caters to beleaguered smartphone users desperate to escape their screens. By Kyle Chayka April 10, 2024 Photograph by Scott Rossi Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story Will Stults spent too much time on his iPhone, doom-scrolling the site formerly known

With the 2024 Venice Biennale now officially open to the public, the massive Italian art festival announced the winners of its three juried prizes during a press conference this morning. Related Articles The exhibition’s top prizes both went to Indigenous artists, with the Golden Lion for the main curated exhibition going to the Mataaho Collective,