Culture & Innovation Writer
Rafael explores the intersection of creativity, technology, and culture — from art reviving communities to sports uniting nations.
The Viginia Museum of Fine Arts has announced a donation of nearly 2000 photographs from the Joy of Giving Something Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to the photographic arts. The gift comprises works spanning the 19th century and the present day by more than 450 artists. The gift comes from the holdings...
Last night, the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted its annual gala, honoring artist Julie Mehretu—who in 2024 donated $2.25 million to the museum to ensure that visitors aged 25 and younger can visit the museum for free—alongside Whitney Board Chair Fern Kaye Tessler, and former Whitney Museum di...
Actress and sometime performance artist Tilda Swinton will stage a performance at the Guggenheim Bilbao next month. Titled House of Gestures, the work is a collaboration between Swinton and fashion historian and curator Olivier Saillard. Commissioned by Dom Pérignon this year, the piece is being bil...
When “Barbie” hit theaters in 2023, think pieces surfaced on nearly every entertainment news website: “Why are so many women crying at the Barbie movie?” they pondered.It was America Ferrera’s all-too-relatable monologue, they concluded. But Nivi Achanta, a climate activist, novelist, organizer, and...
At ballparks all across the country, groups consisting of mostly young men are joining in on the trend: Go to the section where the party is happening, take off your shirt and start twirling it above your head....
Before the city of Trieste was annexed by Italy following World War I, it had been part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire for several centuries, and it was during this earlier time period when Trieste became one of Europe’s notable commercial centers. In 1719, when Trieste was only a small coastal tow...
There has been much discussion over the past decade or so about the role of the artist during our tumultuous political times. Looking at the latest crop of Art in America’s “New Talent” artists, I can’t help but think that one of artists’ primary functions during such times is to remind us that few ...
Most of the headlines from Christie’s blockbuster evening sales of the S.I. Newhouse collection and 20th-century art on Monday will likely focus on the 8- and 9-figure prices: the $181.2 million Pollock, the $107.6 million Brâncuși, and the $98.4 million Rothko. Those are mind-blowing sums, to be su...
French centre dominates as San Antonio steal a crucial 122–115 road win against defending NBA champions.Victor Wembanyama outduelled Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to lead the San Antonio Spurs to an epic 122-115 double-overtime triumph over the Oklahoma City Thunder in game one of the NBA Western Conferen...
American Idol has launched some incredible careers. If it weren’t for Idol, we may never have met Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, Chris Daughtry, or Carrie Underwood. The show gave all these incredibly talented people their start in a business that can be very difficult and often heartbreaking. On ...
Nathaniel Mary Quinn still sounds a little stunned by the whole affair: Last fall, the painter was in the kitchen of his Brooklyn brownstone when he got on a three-way call with Mick Jagger and producer Andrew Watt. By the end of it, he had agreed to make the cover art for Foreign Tongues, the Rolli...
Two high-profile museums—Hong Kong’s M+, a contemporary art museum that opened in 2021 in a building designed by Herzog & de Meuron facing Victoria Harbor, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, which closed last year for a long-planned renovation of its Ren...
InspireMore is pleased to announce the long-awaited Official 2025 Christian Song Contest Semi-Finalists. Congratulations to the talented songwriters listed below on this achievement! In the coming weeks, we will announce the Finalists, the Top 25 Songs, and the Overall Winner along with the Categor...
Reproductions of works by Monet, Picasso and Van Gogh are being hung in town centres to bring art closer to communities...
THE LOUVRE’S NEW LEASE ON LIFE. France’s minister of culture has announced the winners of an architecture competition to renovate the Louvre and build a new room to house the Mona Lisa, reports Le Figaro. The winning designer of the project, known as the Louvre Nouvelle Renaissance, is STUDIOS Archi...
Orfi, 18, beats compatriot Nour El-Sherbini in a five-set thriller to win the PSA World Championship title in Giza.Egypt’s Amina Orfi has rewritten squash history in her sensational title-winning run at the Professional Squash Association (PSA) World Championships 2026, beating world number two Nour...
The 25 newest additions to the national playlist at the Library of Congress have been deemed "worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage"...
Premier League chasing Manchester City beat Chelsea 1-0 in tense FA Cup final at Wembley to follow up League Cup win.Antoine Semenyo produced one of the great FA Cup final goals with an audacious back-flick that sealed Manchester City’s 1-0 win against Chelsea at Wembley.Semenyo illuminated a largel...
The acclaimed pianist reflects on music’s power to unite across division and express the nation’s most complicated emotions over the past 250 years. By Anne Brice ...
on Thursday, the aisles of TEFAF New York at the Park Avenue Armory should have started thinning out. Instead, dealers were still pinned into conversations, collectors crowded around vitrines, and the low roar that had echoed though the building since the doors opened for its VIP day at 11 a.