Arts

Elaine Bedell, CEO of London’s Southbank Centre, talks about leadership and support of the UK’s largest culture facility with Brunswick’s Esme Castrillo and Fanny Guesdon.

As the Brooklyn Museum marks its 200th birthday, Director Anne Pasternak talks about the institution’s transformation. By Brunswick’s Darrell Rocha and Maddie Hickey.

Songwriter and producer Harvey Mason Jr. talks to Brunswick’s Carlton Wilkinson about the demands of steering the Recording Academy and the Grammy Awards.

In Gatsby, the beauty of the American Dream competes successfully with the mendacity of it, perhaps because Gatsby’s ugly fate is no match for the narrator’s poetic ode to the American Dream.

Many women in China take inspiration from World Champion Zhang Weili. By Yadan Ouyang.

Interest in the country’s artists has created a surge in valuations that shows no signs of stopping.

Three thousand years post-Homer, instruments far keener than the human eye guide our navigation. Yet an increasingly popular term for guidance of every kind nowadays is North Star.

The 19th century free Black town of Weeksville, in Brooklyn, speaks to New York City’s past, present and future, says the site’s President and CEO Dr. Raymond Codrington. By Chanel Caraway and Carlton Wilkinson.

San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s President David Stull has a vision for music education in the 21st century—beginning with a new building. By Carlton Wilkinson.

What began as a “crazy idea,” according to the people behind it, is today Singapore’s most successful homegrown musical—one that tells the story of the country’s founding and its founder. Brunswick’s Ben Fry reports.

On paper, Pierre Gentin is a legal All Star. In person, he’s a lot more. By Michael France and Kevin Helliker.

On the same day that Henry Timms talked with Brunswick Chairman Sir Alan Parker about how to harness “new power,” the global, grassroots philanthropic movement he co-founded raised more than $2.4 billion.