TOKYO — At the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), the exhibit “Tokyo”: Sensing the Cultural Magma of the Metropolis reflects on the cultural life of the Japanese capital as it prepares for the ...

Entertainment has always been one of the core pillars of modern culture. How a society relaxes and unwinds defines it. It sets the tone of a society today just as it did a thousand, two thousand years ...

In a recent post, I discussed some famous answers to the question: “What’s wrong with life today?” Included in those answers were such themes as the decline of community, meaninglessness, marginality ...

It’s a typical Saturday afternoon in the winter of 1974, and my mother, my younger sister, and I are wandering the halls of our town’s large shopping mall when, seemingly out of nowhere, a classmate ...

The landscape of work has dramatically changed over the past few decades. Technology, globalization, and the rise of remote jobs have reshaped how, when, and where people work. While modern work ...

As digital technologies continue to transform cultural production, the future of media and video art raises urgent questions about how art is made, collected, valued, and defined. In an era shaped by ...

Last year, I visited the music historian Ted Gioia to talk about the death of civilization. He welcomed me into his suburban-Texas home and showed me to a sunlit library. At the center of the room, ...

The opening of the Almaty Museum may signal a turning point for Kazakhstan’s cultural ambitions. Photo: Alexey Poptsov Like dervishes, dancers turned in circles in their white and rainbow kimonos in ...