How can a film like Never Rarely Sometimes Always get an audience in the age of social distancing and sheltering in place? Well, contemporary events might actually help. "Given that multiple…
Why? "He recommends everyone drawing with open eyes. 'I would suggest they really look hard at something and think about what they are really seeing.'" " The Guardian (UK)
One Met Opera dancer said that his counterparts in other cities should "get to know your rights under the newly passed Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (known as the CARES A…
The dancers, especially the freelancers, are facing terrible losses of income and camaraderie, not to mention fitness opportunities. "Self-training isn't anything new to dancers, but in the …
Burmann, who died of renal failure after testing positive for COVID-19, was "a revered ballet master and teacher who trained generations of dancers, including Alessandra Ferri, Julio Bocc…
Via this year's deeply reimagined Sydney Biennale, now called NIRIN: "The impact of COVID-19 is both a significant challenge and a threshold for new beginnings. An international art world th…
McKinnell was a 26-year-old graduate student and a teaching assistant for architect Gerhard Kallmann when the city hall competition arose. Their "heroically sculptural and democratically ope…
The founder of Opera Povera posted the idea to perform an Oliveros opera, and the opera world responded quickly and in numbers. The plan for the participant opera and fundraiser for musician…
What a music critic who lives close to a major hospital hears in, and beyond, the now-constant sirens. "Most American ambulances contain an 'electronic box in each vehicle, which comes prelo…
The author is on her 111th novel " she long ago stopped buying her signature chunky silver rings for each book " and this one might be her most personal. "Wilson is the fairy goth-mother of …
Sure, Shakespeare and the Bible outsell Agatha Christie, but otherwise, she's the tops. "Agatha Christie's novels have sold more than one billion copies in the English language and another b…
Tens of thousands of Hollywood and theatre workers are out of work right now. But they've found a rallying cause: "With no end in sight to the crisis, costumers " whose job is to create and …
Dance classes, "clubbing" from home, and other dance-related videos (and Instagram Stories, Zooms, etc.) are keeping loneliness at bay as nearly everyone has orders to shelter in place. Some…
The influence of Schnitzer " whose name is on the Oregon Symphony's hall " on the Portland and Pacific Northwest arts scene can hardly be overstated. "Schnitzer was a towering cultural figur…
Quibi " whose ads you've likely seen if you've been online at all in the past four months " was meant to be a short-form video platform that people watched in moments of their commute or at …
Alvarez, the author of In the Time of the Butterflies and the new Afterlife, isn't trying to be facetious or to downplay the importance of health care workers or grocery clerks. But, quoting…
And, turns out, it was. This is why New York just banned it as a tool for teachers: "Zoom contains a number of critical privacy and security flaws, as educators have been learning the hard w…
The group is called Huqqullaaqatigiit, and the drum dancers have been getting together every week for more than a decade to preserve language, music, and the words of elders in the community…
Rocca and five others, former classmates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, "came together under the sway of influences as disparate as Dubuffet, Native American art, hand-p…
Given strict health controls by the production teams, including quarantines for the entire film crew, "studios have reopened in Ningbo, Shanghai, Qingdao and Xi'an, and TV series such as Leg…
The email was grim, and employees who had done all of the prep work for April tours aren't being paid for that work. On the other side of things for educators " though not for 76 other staff…
Here's what's going on with some bookstores in Los Angeles. The Ripped Bodice in Culver City, which has a big Twitter following, offered a "care package" deal. Co-owner Leah Koch: "'Those ha…
But much of the money is earmarked already, and may benefit furloughed employees: "About $7.5 million of the bailout will cover six months of benefits " pension, social security and health c…
This is what happens when we're all watching movies all of the time: A fan spots something off, makes a TikTok, and then the NYT reports on it. What the heck, we need humor, and this is fain…
Lia Cirio: "For a few days I was really in wallowing mode, just watching Netflix and not being very active. But then my mom sent me a quote on Instagram that said 'Victory comes from finding…