Culture Desk
Institutions, labor, audiences, and the economics under the room.
Culture • Food Feature
Enrique Olvera’s Atla is closing in NoHo, but the Lafayette Street room is not going dark. The restaurant’s final month is a story about all-day dining, modern Mexican cooking, and the strange tenderness of eating a place before it becomes history.
Culture • Analysis
Streaming still dominates attention, but its business now looks far less like disruption and far more like television: ad tiers, sports, bundles, labor formulas, and arguments over who shares in the success of a hit.
Culture • Feature
Broadway’s record grosses and rising attendance across the arts show that American cultural life is alive again — but not evenly, and not on the same business terms as before.