The Christian Science Monitor's coverage of the arts.
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Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg, out with an album called “The New World,” is also a naturalist and explorer whose next book is about the beauty and wonder of Antarctica.
A new “Little House on the Prairie” series launches on Netflix this week with a broader diversity of characters. The revamp of the enduring story illustrates the complexity of updating a classic story for modern viewers.
Several groups lay claim to artisan David Drake: a museum, a county, and his descendants. His work serves to illuminate America’s fractured past.
The farms and fields of Constable’s native Suffolk county provided rich material and spiritual sustenance.
Solomon Ekundayo wrote the storybook “The Loud Cry of Ogun River” to explain a river’s decline in terms children can absorb.
The age of AI-generated music and AI-aided fiction has arrived. Will “canned” art push musicians, writers, and others out of jobs?
In “One Battle After Another,” nominated for best picture, the risks of political extremism come to the fore in a film that might feel uncomfortably close to the current news cycle.
Performing Shakespeare in prison helped two murderers rediscover their humanity and find redemption. They vow to “be wise hereafter and seek for grace.”
A new sculpture exhibition under the Tobin Bridge was designed to revitalize the oldest neighborhood in Massachusetts.
Artist Amy Sherald pulled her show from the National Portrait Gallery, citing efforts to censor her work. The decision comes as the Trump administration has railed against “wokeness” in federally funded museums and slashed funding for local cultural institutions.
