In 1987 Israeli science fiction writer Hamutal Shabtai wrote a book about a mysterious virus that engulfed the world in 2020. The scary part is that she got many of the details of what is no…
Peter Marks: "The good news is, you can now access plays and musicals of every style online, from every part of the country and many other places around the globe, a lot of itfree. The bad n…
HireArtists.org is designed to work similarly to TaskRabbit or Fiverr, websites that link gig workers to employers looking for people to do one-off jobs. It invites photographers, d…
"Artificial intelligence, and the desire to smooth out the rough edges of human biology through it, has frequently made its way into the movies. But while the most intriguing of films that d…
Amazon was overwhelmed by orders once retail closed and Jeff Bezos announced that all third-party merchants who sell non-essential items could no longer use Amazon's warehouses or shipping. …
GM Artist Hub includes 10 regional arts groups who have banded together to explore opportunities for the area's mostly-freelance artists and workers. " The Stage
In 1995 46 percent of France's galleries had to close after the art market crash. Estimates now are that one third of French galleries will go out of business due to the pandemic. " The Art …
Elizabeth Outka: "I have spent the last five years writing a book about how the sensory and affective climate of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic infuses interwar literature, often in ways w…
"I teach a class at the Harvard Business School on happiness. It surprises some people when I tell them this"that a subject like happiness is taught alongside accounting, finance, and other,…
The Bloomsbury Group revered him. But today he is pretty much forgotten. So why do some who achieve fame endure but others " some of the biggest " fade from history? " Prospect
Georgia's film industry is big. It accounted for $3 billion film/TV production in 2019 and employs 92,100. It's all shut down now, and many wonder if it will survive. " ArtsATL
There are valid reasons to look at historic crises as moments for dramatic urban change. Nineteenth-century pandemics helped usher in developments in water and sewage systems. And there can …
Steadily, slowly, research interest in solitude has been increasing. Note, solitude " time alone " is not synonymous with loneliness, which is a subjective sense of unwanted social isolation…
It has been difficult at times, looking at the closed doors of theatres and remembering there are no productions to leave the house to go see or participate in. But if the last couple of wee…
The emergency package has an initial pot of $10 million for 2,000 grantees. The funds are culled from the operations budgets of the seven US-based organizations: Academy of American Poets, A…
What explains why the Philadelphia Orchestra's BeethovenNOW concert, with two full symphonies webcast from an empty Verizon Hall on March 12, is up to 771,000 YouTube views? Or why the Rotte…
The team, led by archeologist Pieter van Dalen, were caught digging at the Macatón cemetery in the town of Huaral during the state of emergency on Sunday, April 4. The group from the Univ…
Several drawings appear to depict a bulkier shoulder and more vertical arm"a more structurally sound arrangement. But one of these sketches (below) was marked up by an unidentified hand with…
If we are cut off from experiencing art with others, we are perfectly placed to consider an old and out of fashion idea: the power of private contemplation and solitary engagement. The silen…
Online, fans are fuming about being unable to get refunds for concerts that have been postponed, often with no rescheduled dates in sight. As they see it, ticketing outlets are being greedy …
Superheroes can fight secret quasi-Nazi conspiracies, invading aliens and android armies. But they are ill-equipped to fight the coronavirus. Superheroes on screen have saved the world repea…
The transformation of the university into a capital-intensive, bureaucratically organised enterprise was not simply an effect of academic specialisation. More than a century earlier, Adam Sm…
The annual celebration of stage work was originally scheduled to be held at Terminal 5 in Manhattan on May 18. Instead it will be postponed until a later, as yet unannounced, date. In an int…
The work that began Monday focused on the museum's 1965 Leo S. Bing Center, a 600-seat theater designed by architect William L. Pereira that has been used for film screenings, musical perfor…
"Physical distancing is the antithesis of what a community chorus is all about. We rehearse for four months before our performances twice a year. The community we form as we breathe, learn t…