There was a time when the measure of a great event was loud applause, how bright the lights flashed or how many selfies got posted. Those metrics are evolving.

Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, La société du spectacle (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer culture. The book ...

When a 367-foot-tall eyeball started blinking in Las Vegas over the summer, the world’s architectural standards got reset. The eye was a video image projecting out from the Sphere, one of the most ...

To most laypeople, spectacular architecture probably doesn’t sound like a bad thing. Why shouldn’t a well-designed building be exciting, popular, eye-catching—in a word, spectacular? But, in the more ...

Netflix introduced a spectacle and events TV division last year, led by exec Peter Friedlander. Friedlander broke down the difference between spectacle and event programming. He also discussed shows ...

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Trey Flynn is a Feature Writer and a Co-Host of The Extra Credits Podcast Contact: [email protected] Editor's note: The below article contains spoilers for Nope.During Barack Obama’s ...

Among the misuses of technology, one is its use for publicity stunts and self-advertising gimmicks. People who are the anthropomorphic expressions of TS Eliot's hollow men resort to self-exhibitionism ...

“As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers. SPECTACLE ISLAND — It’s just a 4.2 mile ferry ride from Long Wharf in ...

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