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Nick Hornby: "Before all this started, the BBC was under assault, apparently because of its independence. It was, is, being threatened with all sorts, including the loss of its lifeblood lic…
The performance is scheduled to begin promptly at 8 p.m. "No one will be admitted. No one will be onstage," reads a news release for the production. "Don't call for reservations. No live str…
No one has actually studied mass makeovers during a prolonged global pandemic"we're in uncharted territory here"but people like Christopher Oldstone-Moore think there's much to glean from pe…
While stuck indoors under lockdown, consumer have grown even more accustomed to streaming movies from the comfort of their home. Executives suggest those habits could make moviegoers more un…
About 11,000 of the Artist Relief applicants completed a survey co-sponsored by the nonprofit advocacy group Americans for the Arts. Sixty-two percent of those surveyed said they are now une…
"I'm not going to say this new online platform replaces theatre, I just think that temporarily it is a really interesting form of storytelling." " American Theatre
For eight years the retired architect, who immigrated to Los Angeles from the Philippines in 1969, had been visiting a different art museum, gallery or public art installation every day of t…
"We're giving it a try to be creative. Yes, it would have been easier just to post a press release, but the board, especially for our chapter, decided to see if we could come up with somethi…
Practical concerns aside, it can be difficult to keep creating during a pandemic that has already killed more than 180,000 people worldwide. Even so, people who need to express themselves th…
The logic of private interest " the notion that we should just 'let the market handle it' " has serious limitations. Particularly in the United States, the lack of an effective health and so…
In 1769, amateur historian James Granger published the Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution. It was an interactive book, aimed at collectors of printed im…
The three-minute video for the band Thou & the Get's single "Phenom" is a kaleidoscope of ordinary images whose rhythm and hostility bust the limits of Zoom. The video speaks to the lock…
As the speeches are performed by a succession of people in the videos, it feels "as if they are in conversation even though they are in different parts of the world" said Terry. The three sp…
"When a face looks back at us in the real world, that means something very deep: we have to choose how to respond " because they can see us. So we manifest a facial expression, or talk back,…
Salary and benefits constitute more than 65% of the Met's annual budget. In addition to the layoffs, the museum announced today, April 22, that its top executives will be taking salary reduc…
"For the most part, the Oral History of American Music, known as OHAM, has focused not on insurance salesmen or barbers, but has instead gone straight to the source: living American composer…
Sure, the machers of the banking industry have deep roots in the art market"the Medicis fueled the Renaissance, the bankers of the East India Company let Rembrandt put up his paintings as lo…
A 2016 survey of top AI researchers found that, on average, they thought there was a 50 percent chance that AI systems would be able to "accomplish every task better and more cheaply than hu…
It was an 18-second video called "Meet Me At The Zoo" and it's been seen 90 million times. " CNN
"It will be a while before we can accurately assess whether jazz indeed has suffered more losses, proportionately, than other art forms. Yet the tragedy of so many major figures dying of the…
The fundraiser got the anonymous donation, organized to help out struggling book sellers, after raising £100,000. Book shop owners are feeling a bit conflicted. " The Guardian
Movies depict phone calls, there are split screens, fast cuts, etc. There's already a rich visual language of remote interaction. So what can we learn? " Irish Times
Adrian Searle: "On the page, I am the mildest, most humane and dare I say sympathetic of writers, while the one who is doing the writing is an incoherent monster, if not an absolute swine. B…
Loans of online e-books, e-magazines and audiobooks were up an average of 63% in March compared with last year. And 120,000 people joined libraries in the three weeks after lockdown began, L…
In the 20th century, tuberculosis, typhoid, polio and Spanish flu breakouts prompted urban planning, slum clearance, tenement reform, waste management and, on a larger level, Modernism itsel…
