Arts and Culture

Memoir writing is one of the most meaningful creative endeavors available to older adults. This guide dismantles the common assumptions that hold people back and gets you writing.

Arts and cultural festivals offer one of the most concentrated experiences of community and creativity available anywhere. Here is how to choose, plan, and get the most from them.

Photography occupies a unique position among creative practices because it sits directly at the intersection of making art and paying attention to the world. Unlike painting or writing, which begin with a blank surface and require the practitioner to generate content from imagination or memory, phot…

For seasoned adults who have the time to travel slowly and the experience to understand what they’re seeing, cultural travel can be among the richest chapters of a lifetime.

Book clubs offer intellectual engagement, social connection, structured routine, and the ongoing pleasure of reading. Here is everything you need to find or start one.

Dance sits at a remarkable intersection of cognitive, physical, and social engagement. Here is your guide to styles, benefits, and finding classes.

The difference between traveling as a tourist and traveling as a cultural participant is not a matter of itinerary length or expense — it is a matter of orientation. The tourist moves through a place collecting experiences, checking sites, accumulating photographs of the famous things. The cultural …

There is something that happens in a theater that cannot be reproduced, streamed, or approximated — a quality of experience so specific to live performance in a shared space that the people who have it regularly and the people who never have it are, in a meaningful sense, having different lives. Thi…

Cultural life is richer when it is shared — not because art requires company to be experienced, but because the conversation, debate, and shared reference that develop around shared cultural engagement multiply the value of individual encounters in ways that solo consumption doesn’t produce. The per…