"From a very early age, I understood that my skin had a lot of meaning," he told National Public Radio in 2005. "It made me different in the projects, but it gave me power in the outside wor…
It has not been an easy sell, coming at a time when many pillars of the economy, from airlines to restaurants to public transportation, are facing existential crises and needing handouts the…
To give users a personalised experience, the deep learning bot gathers information about conversation partners by asking them questions, adapts to their conversational style and, over time, …
Playwright Nick Green created the Social Distancing Festival website to host rehearsal videos, designs, photos, excerpts and other pieces of work that have been cancelled or postponed in the…
The money is intended to prevent artists and arts organisations from going bust, but is also designed to help them come up with creative responses "to buoy the public" during the lockdown. "…
The recently interrupted tours, canceled premieres, locked studios and social distancing requirements have hit the financially fragile, socially enmeshed dance world hard. When your life rev…
Perhaps the most important comic voice in theater since Neil Simon, McNally wrote to amuse and awaken. Laughter for him was the greatest survival tool ever invented. Humor was his shield aga…
The economic fallout of the virus has made the disparity between employed workers and independent contractors clearer than ever. New York has a paid-sick-leave law, but it does not cover con…
McNally, once referred to as "the quintessential man of the theater" by actress Zoe Caldwell, died from complications related to the coronavirus, according to his publicist Matt Polk. He was…
Two years ago this was a hot idea as a way of expanding the art market. You could own shares in works of art. But then bitcoin value cratered and things have stalled… " The Art Newspaper
According to a report by Le Parisien, two men face charges for allegedly attempting to steal various stones from the cathedral after the government ordered a pause on reconstruction so as to…
Virginia Woolf insisted on the need for a room of one's own, but only the upper middle classes could have afforded one at the time. In the 19th century, only 1% of the British population liv…
Michael Kimmelman: "The coronavirus undermines our most basic ideas about community and, in particular, urban life. Historians tell us that cities emerged thousands of years ago for economic…
"Advertising was like art, and more and more art was like advertising. Ideally, the only difference would be the logo. Advertising could take up the former causes of art"philosophy, beauty, …
Daydreaming is taken very seriously within scientific circles, where it is more accurately referred to as mind wandering. The level of interest in this area runs more or less parallel to tha…
With little advance notice, the 84-year-old film-maker's book arrives at a time when much of the world is preoccupied with the coronavirus pandemic. Arcade is an imprint of Skyhorse Publishi…
Every performing arts group in the Bay Area contacted by The Chronicle has canceled its spring season, even as most had barely begun. Now a study reports that arts organizations stand to los…
Dame Fanny says: "I had courage when people said, 'It won't work in Leeds'. Even my darling husband said that and I said 'I'll show you'. I rang up Marion and she said 'Let's try'. That was …
"I continue to believe that any critic who wants to write something lasting"who believes that criticism can be a species of literature"must write partly out of aggression. Or perhaps a bette…
This economic catastrophe is blowing up the myth of the worker robot and AI takeover. We've been led to believe that a new wave of automation is here, made possible by smarter AI and more so…
Magic challenges our sense of what's real; Houdini wanted to challenge the ultimate reality of death, by risking it over and over. That risk, he later wrote, is what "attracts us to the man …
"This is the first time in our history that we have had to have a layoff," owner Nancy Bass Wyden Bass Wyden wrote in a statement. Employees will receive a week of pay in addition to payment…
Even in that best-case scenario " say, a May return " it may take years to return to the vibrant, cultural universe that defines our country. " Washington Post
No one seems to fully agree on why reading books or watching movies about apocalyptic pandemics feels appealing during a real crisis with an actual contagious disease. Some readers claim tha…
Ultra's attempt at virtuality illustrated what happens when the vehicle of that nihilism, the global economy, grinds to a halt. However grim it might have seemed before, the end result is we…