Michael Rosen blames the Reformation " truly. That time period was "when they thought the only way you could be virtuous was to be modest and serious, so humour was pushed aside, seen as fri…
Writer Jenny Offill: "The question I was thinking about in this book … was, Can you still just tend your own garden once you know about the fire outside its walls?" " The New York Times
In settling out of court, apparently, Â "Audible has agreed not to include the copyrighted works of seven plaintiff publishers in its 'Captions' program without express permission." This d…
In Budapest, Deaf and other hard of hearing adults and children use touch to experience Beethoven's Fifth. One of them said, "Here, when the string instruments all sound, that gives a very g…
Theodore Albrecht, professor of musicology at Kent State and Beethoven expert, claims, "Not only was Beethoven not completely deaf at the premiere of his Ninth Symphony in May 1824, he could…
Several of the directors, including Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, "emerged from the period of 1980s civic turmoil that ended the military dictatorship. They were all members of the univers…
Author Naomi Ishiguro: "I've always enjoyed the idea of total mundanity, and the struggles and the happinesses of ordinary life, and then contrasting it with something a bit strange; the pos…
Indeed, composer and performer Molly Joyce says, that idea may be offputting to potential new audiences, and new performers. "Although she eschewed pyrotechnics in her own music long before …
Joanna Scotcher trained as a sculptor, but when she started trying to sculpt doorways between spaces and the human interactions in those spaces, one of her professors hinted that she might c…
Easy: Require Canadian content from networks " including Netflix and other streamers. First Nations advocates say it's also time for their equal inclusion in Canada's Broadcasting Act. But c…
While Parasite and Jojo Rabbit were winners at the Writers Guild Awards on Saturday night, Parasite and clear Oscars Best Picture frontrunner 1917 shared awards at the BAFTAs on Sunday. But …
There were 269 films that were eligible for awards nominations this year, and voters had watched, on average, about a quarter of them. "The current system leaves Bafta voters free to decide …
The city might not be so walkable, but for a concrete savannah laid out and built within four years, BrasÃlia is holding up pretty darn well. "IÂ worried before I visited BrasÃlia th…
London's thoroughfare is a tidal river, and when the river retreats, the mudlarks emerge. These mudlarks are people, and they find cool things: "A gold ornament from the 16th century, ancien…
It's the first classical troupe in the world to make that choice. "'Why not? There's been all-men years for the past 150 years where only men choreograph,' says Patricia Barker, the company'…
The book isn't due to be published until June in English translation. The writer Martha Cooley asks her husband to read the novel " a first-person account by a woman " to her. "Low in pitch …
The 19-year-old leapt to his death around 6 pm on Saturday, with hundreds of tourists near him. "On Sunday, dozens of visitors waited in line to enter the sculpture. No areas appeared to be …
Minari, which is an autobiographical feature based on Lee Isaac Chung's childhood in rural Arkansas, won both Audience and Grand Prize. "All four of the jury directing prizes went to female …
First of all, kids' shows now have merchandise baked in from the beginning " Paw Patrol being only one of the offenders. Then there's YouTube, where many kids get almost all of their screen …
Rowan Moore spares no words in this scathing overview of Tory-approved developments " and finds the Tory architectural guru, the late philosopher Roger Scruton, useless on this count. "Beaut…
Some professors and grad students are trying to change that, but right now, the situation is this: "The four films that the organizers are hoping to digitize (Fabrication Des Chapeaux De Man…
Sounds like the Tanztheater Wuppertal might not be the easiest place to run: Adolphe Binder, who was dismissed in 2018 after only a year in the job, was the fourth person to run the troupe s…
Let Ivan Brunetti break it down for you: Comics are "an incantation beckoning us to enter their world. The simplicity of their superficial concision can reveal surprising density, layers, an…
Writer Abi Daré wasn't planning to deal with a new novel, and a normalized practice among middle-class families in Nigeria, when her 8-year-old wouldn't unload the dishwasher. But inspirati…
Le Carré, as he accepted the Olof Palme prize: "I want a Palme for my country, which in my lifetime hasn't produced a single statesman of his stamp. I want him now. I'm not just…