Video games are practically the national pastime, played by the majority of adults and more than 90% of adolescents. Rising concerns over the effects of games on mental health have been met …
Beginning Nov. 1, Macmillan Publishers, one of the so-called Big Five publishing companies in North America, will only allow libraries to purchase one copy of each new e-book for the firs…
Brett Stephens: "We live in an age that is losing the capacity to distinguish art from ideology and artists from politics. "I'm standing at my garden gate and there are 50 journalists," Hand…
Cultures seemed to build up their color vocabularies in a predictable way. Languages with only two color categories chunked the spectrum into blacks and whites. Languages with three categori…
These immersive experiences are branded as exhibits, but that might be where the link to traditional museums ends. The companies are, after all, for-profit businesses that sell experiences t…
"After nearly a quarter century as the artistic director of one of Off Broadway's most acclaimed nonprofits, [Tim] Sanford is announcing his departure. The theater's next season " its 50th "…
The name partners of the Panama City firm Mossack Fonseca (portrayed in the movie by Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas) allege that the Steven Soderbergh film (which also stars Meryl Streep a…
This week the law enforcement consulting firm John E. Reid and Associates sued Netflix and director DuVernay for defamation over the Central Park Five miniseries When They See Us, alleging t…
"Found in Al-Assasif, an ancient necropolis on the west bank of Nile, the coffins were spread out over two levels of a large tomb. The site once formed part of the ancient city of Thebes, th…
"Described as the first resource of its kind, Choreography Online allows individuals to buy the performance licence for choreographic material through a searchable video-based site. … Uplo…
"The debate has roots in older conversations about whether carving out places in a male-dominated field for one group, in this case women, comes at the cost of excluding others. Proponents o…
Chamayou's Erato-label disc of the 2nd and 5th Concertos with Emmanuel Krivine conducting the Orchestre National de France prevailed over nine other category winners to take the top prize. T…
Very few people even know where the world's most expensive painting is right now: it's supposed to be at the new Louvre Abu Dhabi, but it's never appeared there. (There's a report that it's …
"With just days to go before its hotly anticipated Leonardo da Vinci retrospective opens, the Louvre has finally secured the loan of one of the artist's key works, following a two-year polit…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo. Here's an excerpt. *  *  * Were a visitor from another planet to spend a few …
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call "The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Life.…
"Sexton I still read, but Plath I gave up on. For some years I was very enthusiastic about her, but I don't feel the attraction any more. With poetry, I go where I'm pulled." Jon Hassler,…
The four were forced to sign a document agreeing to deportation, Marta Carrasco said. She said Customs told her group, "If you don't sign, you will not be allowed to enter the U.S. for five …
Harold Bloom "read like a man picking up crumbs with a moistened index finger. He often considered loneliness in literature. You felt he was attracted to loneliness as a theme for the same r…
"Previous generations had a signature style, and it's easier to label," says Mark Lee, seated before a wall of printed renderings in his firm's cluttered West L.A. studio. "Our generation wa…
The virtual reality tour will be a more intimate encounter. The VR tour, designed to remedy the problem of crowds and distance, will be housed in a small gallery room near the main Leonardo …
The company's leaders say they want to map a different route to success in Silicon Valley, one that's less meteoric and more humane. But in its first year as a public company, it faces a piv…
Students can hire up to two artworks for the year for £20 each. A visitors' book shows the former director of the Tate, Sir Nicholas Serota, borrowed a Henri Gaudier-Brzeska drawing when …
With local authority funding for culture now more than £236m lower than in 2010, and museums alone having lost £109m in annual funding over the past decade, the Government's promise of…
Choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan has taken the kernel of the Tchaikovsky/Petipa classic's story and transplanted to in the milieu of contemporary Ireland to create Swan Lake/Loch na hEala,…