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Film, music, theater, and the visual world

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Architecture After the Crisis

The housing shortage is an architecture story. How we design the homes and cities we need — and what stands in the way — reveals the gap between our aesthetic ideals and our practical failures.

Leila FarahaniMarch 12, 2026
Arts

The Concert Economy Is Eating Music

Streaming made music free and live performance the only real revenue source. The result has been spectacular for stadium artists and catastrophic for everyone else.

James Cartwright11 min
Arts

The Repatriation Wave Has a Long Way to Run

Germany returned 1,000 Benin Bronzes. France repatriated colonial-era objects. Now indigenous communities in the US are winning cases that Western museums said were impossible. The signal suggests this is just beginning.

Leila Farahani11 min
Arts

When the Machine Paints, Who Made the Art?

AI image generation has disrupted the economic and aesthetic foundations of visual art. The philosophical questions it raises have not been resolved — and probably cannot be.

Leila Farahani12 min
Arts

Why Theater Is Surging While Everything Else Streams

Broadway revenue hit a record $1.8 billion in the 2023-24 season. Regional theater attendance is recovering faster than film. The live experience that technology was supposed to obsolete has found its moment.

Leila Farahani11 min