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.

Spectacle fighters are fast-paced action games focused on stylish combat and execution, often featuring a real-time grade system to rate player performance. These games are few and far between in both ...

There was steadiness in the way they carried themselves, as dependable as the rhythm of the tide. As children ran across the sand and waves folded gently onto shore, these families gathered not as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This weekend marks the opening of the Boston Harbor Islands for the season. While Bostonians will be eager to take advantage of Free Ferry Day on Saturday, no one would have been excited about a free ...

SPECTACLE ISLAND IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR. CLEAN UP OF THE ONCE POLLUTED WATERS OF BOSTON HARBOR, REVIVED INTEREST IN AND OPENED ACCESS TO THE 34 HARBOR ISLANDS. BOATING HAS RETURNED PEOPLE CAMP ON ...

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 ...