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 ...

“The Culture” began on street corners in the Bronx during the 1970s. That street culture, Black culture, expanded to encompass the culture of cities–urban culture. Having taken over cities, “the ...

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 ...

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, ...

A visitor at “Hallyu! The Korean Wave” at the V&A Museum in London. Stephen Chung / Alamy Live News “Hallyu! The Korean Wave” tried to trace and explain to U.K. and U.S. audiences the genesis of this ...

Many associate culture in Athens with ruins and ancient artifacts. But the Greek government and several big philanthropic foundations want to put the city on the international contemporary art map. By ...

Recent headlines from South Africa have reported national crises, from rolling blackouts to the highest unemployment rate in the world and housing shortages. But a new photography exhibition shines a ...