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The abrupt restructuring of daily working life for tens of millions due to the COVID-19 pandemic has also dramatised just how different 'flexible' work is in different contexts: liberating f…
Given social-distancing protocols that prohibit physical gatherings, theatre makers have responded creatively to the COVID-19 pandemic by turning to online, digital and lo-fi or "non-embodie…
One force we must confront is the attention economy, an incentive structure designed to reward the most uncompromising, polarized, clickable minority. (Ironically, this minority is very ofte…
Over the last few months, over 270,000 choirs nationwide have been trying to figure out how to move forward. While making a high quality musical product is the common call for any music ense…
Garry Garrels is perhaps the most prominent figure to tumble so far as art museums around the country, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian's N…
Reasons for synchronising release dates globally, such as minimising piracy and coordinating marketing, hardly seem like priorities given present circumstances. The US is still the largest s…
This debilitating, isolating historical moment should make us rethink our attitudes, priorities and national policies with regard to our criminal justice system, health and education infrast…
"Williams is a courtly, soft-voiced, inveterately self-effacing man of eighty-eight. He is well aware of the extraordinary worldwide impact of his "Star Wars" music"not to mention his scores…
The growth in nonfiction stands in contrast to fiction. Despite the publication of highly anticipated novels such as Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, sales fell to £582m in 2019, down 5.…
Laszlo Surmeyan danced lead male roles before becoming, in 1986, one of the company's first principal character artists. This season has marked his farewell to the company after a remarkable…
Netflix's once heavily guarded vault of secret statistics has slowly opened up over the last couple of years, a gradual juicy reveal of viewer habits with some major caveats. " Irish Times
"It's not an uninteresting moment to be part of CalArts," said dance dean Dimitri Chamblas. "The school is ready to re-question, reinvent … innovating in this particular moment of time " i…
The coronavirus pandemic and the administration's botched response to it are damaging the engine of American innovation in three major ways: The flow of talented people from overseas is slow…
The Authors Guild said its members had lost on average 43% of their regular income since the start of the crisis. The Freelancers union said over 80% of its members were reporting loss of in…
It took a pandemic to stop the gluttonous consumption of other places, trips that relied centrally on the have-nots"armies of hotel workers, cleaners, food preparers, bartenders, pool attend…
Howard Reich: "Should the organization succeed in presenting live events, it will deliver us from the current deluge of online performances by every musician who happens to own a smart phone…
"They parked all too easily; slung their fold-up camp chairs over their shoulders; and waited obediently in a socially distanced line to enter the grounds, cracking jokes behind their masks.…
If there's one lesson to be learned from the pandemic, it's the benefits of flexibility. In a matter of months, we've converted parking spaces into cafés, restaurants into food pantries, cl…
For decades, the P in NPR stood for "public," as in publicly supported, noncommercial radio and digital news. Yet with its growing dependence on corporate advertising, NPR has found itself o…
The one-story, three-bedroom cottage was built in 1913 as a temporary home for Wright's lawyer, Sherman Booth. Booth developed a cluster of Wright houses, including one for himself, in the R…
Written by two former employees and one current staff member and signed by almost 70 others, the petition alleges sexual and racial harassment at the federally funded institution and calls f…
Science fiction writers have, indeed, always embraced globality. In interplanetary texts, humans of all nations, races and genders have to come together as one people in the face of alien in…
"We keep hearing that this is a post-truth era, that feelings beat facts, people no longer care what's true, and we're heading for ruin. Opponents of Brexit and Donald Trump not only found t…
For those wanting transformation, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. But will hardship economics allow for new possibilities from our most prominent venues or will it just be a matter of…
The Broadway program publication hasn't printed programs since Broadway went dark. Website and social media traffic is up, but advertising has collapsed. "Just as it would be impossible to i…
