"The authors I contacted all jumped at the chance to do something to benefit both the bookstore and those readers facing isolation, even though many of those authors themselves are entering …
The potential long-term effects for book retailers are sobering. Many in the industry are worried that independent bookstores will be devastated as local and state officials mandate social d…
If there is a silver lining in this crisis, it may be that the virus is forcing us to use the internet as it was always meant to be used " to connect with one another, share information and …
Michael Kaiser: "For many, it is a lack of clarity on the duration of the crisis that causes the most anxiety. Should we proceed with rehearsals for a new production scheduled for May? Do we…
"This is 9/11 meets The Great Recession meets the snowstorm," Randy Engstrom, director of the city's Office of Arts and Culture (OAC), said during an online public meeting Tuesday afternoon.…
LAUSD curriculum specialists and PBS SoCal/KCET were in a programming war room, mapping out priorities by grade, and identifying shows inside the TV stations' library that might match up. Al…
"Life as a freelancer is already touch and go. We can't really count on work to begin with, we don't know what our schedules will be more than 3-6 months in advance, there's always the risk …
These virtual tours take you right inside some of the world's most iconic institutions. Been putting off that trip to Amsterdam to explore the Van Gogh Museum? Here's your chance to take it …
Nobel laureate Michael Levitt, an American-British-Israeli biophysicist who teaches structural biology at Stanford University and spends much of his time in Tel Aviv, unexpectedly became a h…
"We're going make sure we protect our people, but we need to keep the arts and the music going. That's what we're going to do. That's why we're here." " The Guardian
Bonfils-Stanton Foundation: "These Denver-based organizations offer ongoing public arts & culture programming and are at risk for earned revenue loss due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.…
The company will also make movies that are currently in theatrical release available on-demand beginning as early as Friday, starting with the Elisabeth Moss horror film "The Invisible Man,"…
After many weeks of self-quarantining and social distancing, will people be eager to rub shoulders again when restrictions are lifted? And what will happen to the release calendar, with so m…
The British Museum on Tuesday announced that 1,311 finds which are defined as treasure had been found by members of the public across England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2019. They also i…
Charles McNulty: "I'm sure I'm not the only writer who fantasizes about retreating to a country house with nothing to do but curl up by a fire beside a mountain of Dickens and Dostoevsky. Bu…
Plagues functioned as a setup for an even more crucial theme in ancient myth: a leader's intelligence. At the beginning of the "Iliad," for instance, the prophet Calchas " who knows the caus…
As dance, music and opera companies seek ways to stream performances online; dance teachers hold class and dance parties on Instagram live; university dance programs unveil plans to move cur…
Newsstands are even registering a small bump in sales. That was clear in Milan. In a busier newsstand, near a major shopping street here, I had to wait to pay for the newspaper. And when my …
The reality for most organisations is that their value and survival increasingly demand competence " and coherence " across all audience development. Many next-generation cultural organisati…
What the library tells you is not that there is that much to read, but that there are no limits as to how much there is to know. The essence of the library is its limitlessness. The more tim…
The economic fallout of event cancellations is making headlines. However, little attention has been paid to the social costs. Events play an important role in community life and research has…
Dazzle was, of course, the very essence of the Steiner sound. The magisterial tone, the cosmopolitan content, the very assumption that the reader was as intimately familiar with the history …
New York Foundation for the Arts has created a page of resources for artists who have found themselves in difficulty during the virus crisis. " New York Foundation for the Arts
Crises like coronavirus are opportunities as well as threats. Naomi Klein writes that ideas that were heretofore beyond consideration can sometimes become possible " for example no-strings b…
The 17th-century puritans who founded the first English settler colonies were "rabidly anti-theatrical", and colonial insurrectionists rejecting the motherland in the 18th century would not …