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In the last week, protesters all over the country have come to see their barely walkable cities the way New Yorkers always have seen theirs, as a matrix of public space that must be fluid, f…
Questions about what sort of future human beings might create tend to be limited by the horizon of the management strategies of market capitalism. This version of the future isn't about radi…
Last week's small beginnings showed a way forward, demonstrating what an crucial role the BBC can and must play to aid a potential recovery of classical music before it is safe for venues to…
"The power of the narrative that comes out of Hollywood " that not only travels to this country but travels globally; that creates a worldview, a mental model of black people and black commu…
Despite the unexpected anticlimax, Mr. Thomas's time in San Francisco should not go unmarked as it comes to a close. From the beginning, it has been a remarkable musical marriage. Mr. Thomas…
The future of daily life on Hollywood sets will not be the same when movies and TV productions start up again. Entertainment studios and labor unions this week agreed to a detailed set of pr…
After work on the Golden Gate Bridge's sidewalks to bolster their wind resistance, nearby residents of San Francisco are complaining that the 1.7 mile-long structure makes a creepy droning n…
It's difficult to see a way of easing social distancing for audiences to make theatres and venues viable during the pandemic, but this was not the case for performers. "There's no finesse ab…
Save that? Better to take the South Bank apart, piece by piece, in a period when there is no performance, so that it can put it together again under entrepreneurial management over the next …
The true origins of the expression "shit hits the fan" are largely undetermined, though some sources suggest that Canada is to blame"it might have come from particularly picturesque Canadian…
There are now more than 12,000 cinemas in China, according to market research firm IBISWorld. This figure has more than doubled in the past decade as China has embraced movie-going. But four…
In recent years, designers and city-builders have largely come to reject defensive strategies and the exclusionary policies from which they stemmed. Great public spaces are now built with fl…
A new Twitter account, called "Open Your Lobby," has encouraged theaters to welcome protesters. A post from the account recommended that the theaters "not permit police inside of the buildin…
Kids are now watching twice as many videos per day as they did just four years ago. This is despite the fact that YouTube's flagship app is meant for ages 13 and up " an age-gate that was ne…
Conventional jazz harmony is religiously chord-based, with soloists improvising within each key like balls pinging through a pinball machine. Coleman, in contrast, imagined harmony, melody, …
Instead of choosing the best from an incomplete list, I decided to play a different game. Looking back at the last 10 years of Tony winners, I came up with my own nominations and winners for…
Virus impacts aren't a short-term blip for the funded arts to be ameliorated by nifty footwork, strategised centrally and 'top down' in the coteries of arts power. Short-term bail-outs are i…
"What's really important is to take a step back and look at the macro picture, and think through, how did we get here? What are the underlying causes? There's this phrase flying around a lot…
Around 70 per cent of the auditorium's seats have been removed, with every second row cleared and seats arranged either individually or in pairs on the remaining rows. " Dezeen
The uncomfortable truth is that the age of the Renaissance contributed very little to innovation in science. This was largely because the revival of classical learning and languages concentr…
Our internal clocks and external cues have fallen out of sync, explains Anthony M. Tobia, associate professor of the Division of Consultation Psychiatry at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Me…
Several black actors, writers, and others working in the New York theater have come forward to share the stories of the racism embedded in the industry. Many of them described hearing subtly…
Perhaps no innovations have been as far-reaching as the set of boundary-smashing experiments that a small group of producers performed on multi-track recording machines and mixing desks in a…
It's not film. (Except when it is.) It's definitely not television. It's…theatre on a screen? As COVID-19 continues to force industries online, one Bay Area organization is exploring a hyb…
So why is the computer good at certain tasks whereas the brain is better at others? Comparing the computer and the brain has been instructive to both computer engineers and neuroscientists. …
