It’s a question that draws heated answers. Digital humanities has been accused of fetishizing science, of acting as a Trojan horse for the corporate forces threatening the university, and worse. A recent broadside in The Chronicle of Higher Education called “The Digital-Humanities Bust” took a bludgeon to the field’s revolutionary …

Mark Elias | Bloomberg | Getty Images Plasterers stand on scaffolding, back, while a worker walks into the garage of a home under construction at the Lennar Corp. Madison Pointe at Central Park development in Doral, Florida. Lennar said it would buy smaller rival CalAtlantic in a deal valued at …

“It is, if you can be objective about it,” he said a few weeks ago, sitting in his home here near the Pacific Ocean. Photo Mr. Hamill at home in Malibu with the family dog, Millie. Credit Ture Lillegraven for The New York Times Finding that inner peace took Mr. …

Frazer Harrison | BAFTA LA | Getty Images for BAFTA LA Kevin Spacey speaks onstage at the 2017 AMD British Academy Britannia Awards Presented by American Airlines And Jaguar Land Rover at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on October 27, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. Actor Kevin Spacey said Sunday he …

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Photo Denis O’Hare in “Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive.” Credit Liane Brandon/PBS PBS’s “American Masters” sheds new light on Edgar Allan Poe. And a marathon of the “Treehouse of Horror” specials on “The Simpsons” brings nostalgia. What’s on TV AMERICAN MASTERS: EDGAR ALLAN POE: BURIED ALIVE 9 p.m. on PBS …

How to prevent flattening cultural context while encouraging foreign audiences to embrace the unfamiliar? Ms. Hasegawa tackles that question in “Japanorama.” Having previously presented Japanese contemporary art in Brazil, Britain and Germany, she “looked very carefully at the past 10-15 years: what was organized, what kind of Japanese contemporary art …

Photo Kevin Spacey at an awards show on Friday. He apologized on Sunday to Anthony Rapp, an actor who accused him of making a sexual advance when Mr. Rapp was 14. Credit Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press Kevin Spacey, a two-time Oscar winner, apologized Sunday night for what he said …

Photo Jenny Holzer was among the artists who signed an open letter pledging to fight against sexism in the art world. Credit Ander Gillenea/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Over 500 female artists, writers, curators and directors have signed an open letter condemning the publisher of Artforum, Knight Landesman, and pledging …

Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hiroya Kawasaki, president and CEO of Kobe Steel, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 26, 2017. Kobe Steel has decided to withdraw its forecast for current financial year, the Nikkei business daily reported on Monday, as it struggles to …