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"I had worried that the just-for-me performance would be awkward. The prospect triggered flashbacks of unwanted serenades by accordionists and fiddlers playing for tips on European restauran…
"You don't want to make all the health stuff too obvious. Because if it feels like they're checking in for a flight, they aren't going to come. But you have to let them know somehow. So it's…
Only a public agent can speak in our name. So mass privatisation doesn't simply shift decision-making away from public institutions to unaccountable, private entities; it also undermines sha…
The word "scientist" first appeared in March 1834, while Darwin was surveying the Falkland Islands on overland expeditions from the HMS Beagle, being no scientist but an explorer, adventurer…
By its nature, Roman civilisation seemed to unlock the pestilential potential of the landscape. The expansion of agriculture brought civilisation deeper into habitats friendly with the mosqu…
At some point, from around 40,000 years ago in Europe, we see evidence of these behaviourally modern humans in a sudden flourishing of cultural artifacts in the archaeological record. So wha…
Is Spotify the new Disney? While film production is paused or barely resumed, the music subscription service has made a deal to be the new home of audio tales of DC superheroes. Perhaps this…
Cannes is online, and so are movie sales, in two digital marketplaces. "Both digital markets were initially conceived as being mainly initiatives to reconnect industry players. Three months …
No matter what a mother says, Spike Lee's movies might just have more impact. "As I watched the police take the life from Radio Raheem, everything my mother had been trying to tell me was su…
Working on a socially distant set hasn't made her exactly content. "How are you going to get hair and makeup done when you can't get near each other?" " The Observer (UK)
Bakari Sellers' new book is about race in the United States. Sellers: "When I wrote the book, I thought: This can be the spark to conversations about race. I didn't know I was going to be st…
One suspects it might otherwise have been targeted for a less gentle removal. The museum says it's the statue, not the man, that it objects to, but critics see TR "as an imperialist whose ro…
Before the virus hit, there was Rainbow Litfest in December. "Drawn by the promise of themes long pushed under the rug " non-normative sexualities in religion and mythology, history and poli…
The museum is facing a deficit of $45 million over the next year with the massive loss of ticket revenue " and that's a big problem: "Earned revenue, mainly museum admissions, covers more th…
The open letter says, in part, "A direct line can be drawn from the stories and voices that are silenced and ignored, to the discrimination and biases that are pervasive in the entertainment…
The judge noted that without the pandemic, their sentences would be significantly more severe. "The stolen items included a 1787 first-edition book signed by Thomas Jefferson, a rare copy of…
Playwright and director Edward Einhorn on adapting his in-person creation for the virtual world: "I have never witnessed the audience member witnessing the performance. Which, I must say, is…
So here's how choirs are reinventing themselves. " CBC
Dancer Sara Komatsu says it's time for massive change in ballet. "If we believe in this art and want it to succeed, we must be willing to open our minds, have honest conversations, and put i…
Look to Black Bookstagram for recommendations on everything from history to science fiction to romance. " BuzzFeed
Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor dance a medley of songs from their films. This clip is an excerpt from Pontiac Star Parade, a TV special that was originally telecast by NBC on November 21,…
"Few things are more irritating than to discover, after you have been at great pains to spare a person some painful intelligence, that he has known it all along and is not nearly so mch affe…
At least, until we get a vaccine? " The Atlantic
In New York, the epicenter of Black drag ball culture, dance and performance has always been a protest and a claim, say founders and members. Jack Mizrahi Gucci of the House of Gucci: "Doing…
But the smaller museums may not be interested in risking everything. The Underground Museum, "in L.A.'s Arlington Heights neighborhood, sounded a voice of caution about a pandemic that…
