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"The Red Lion is thought to have been built around 1567 and probably played host to travelling groups of players. … Archaeologists are as certain as they can be that they have found its re…
"Frontline booksellers are the first people customers see when they set foot in bookstores across America. They also do physically demanding work, from carrying heavy boxes to shelving thous…
The Electric Slide in Harlem and the Cupid Shuffle in Newark; the bomba in Puerto Rico and voguing in Chicago; Ojibwe and Nuhua dances in Minneapolis and haka in New Zealand " those are just…
"We will always have storytellers that want to tell stories and cinema has become an essential part of the way modern society does that," said Tori Baker, the president and CEO of the nonpro…
"Half of all music venues and 70% of theatres across the UK face permanent closure as a result of the coronavirus crisis, industry leaders have told a committee of MPs." Testified one exec, …
I've written a "Staying Inside Guide" piece for The Wall Street Journal about the novel sequence, highlighting three of my favorite authors who have worked in the genre. Here's an excerpt…
André Watts, Leonard Bernstein, and the New York Philharmonic perform Liszt's First Piano Concerto as part of a Young People's Concert featuring young classical performers, originally telec…
"She liked to think of herself as a straightforward sort of person. 'People always know where they are with me,' she would say rather smugly; it never occurred to her that people might not a…
Long ago Barry Hessenius charged us to move from thinking of the pursuit of equity as a "issue" to making it an obsession. So, if "doing" is where we go now, what does the doing look like? "…
Consider that "everything we see around us " rocks and planets, frogs and trees, your body and brain " is made up of nothing but protons, electrons and neutrons put together in very complex …
Netflix has begun sharing viewership results with its creators, resulting in what DuVernay called "astounding numbers" that are in dismaying contrast to how her major studio films, "A Wrinkl…
Producer Marie Cisco created a public Google spreadsheet and titled it "Theaters Not Speaking Out." It was open for anyone to edit, and it had a simple directive: "Add names to this document…
With only a trickle of EU tourists arriving, Italians have a historic opportunity: the chance to see their own masterpieces free from throngs of tourists and by booking just days in ad…
"To mark his farewell, Mad's 'Usual Gang of Idiots' will salute Jaffee with a tribute issue next week. It will be the magazine's final regular issue to offer new material, including Jaffee's…
To many scientists and doctors, the risk of singing is clear. "It's not safe for people to simply return to the choir room and pick things up," Lucinda Halstead, the president-elect of the P…
"Long was the right man at the right time in 1957, when he came to Houston to establish Meredith Long & Co. With less than a million residents then, the city had two art museums, three g…
The museum withdrew the show when it got uncomfortable with the content. Shaun Leonardo, the artist, says he wasn't consulted. Now the museum has apologized for the cancellation. " The New Y…
As the novel coronavirus spread, the machinery of live classical performance ground to a halt months ago, putting thousands out of work; the industry will be one of the last to return to ful…
"Museum exhibitions take an exceptional amount of planning " from curatorial conception to filling out loan forms and insurance, to shipping, hanging, and displaying works. Getting a show on…
"We have brought this on ourselves because of our absolute disrespect for animals and the environment," she said. "Our disrespect for wild animals and our disrespect for farmed animals has c…
"The entertainment industry has generally followed the official line: blithe ignorance and denial giving way to grudging admission of a problem, but only as far as the 'bad apple' theory. An…
"If the music industry wants to support black lives, labels and platforms can start with amending contracts, distributing royalties, diversifying boardrooms, and retroactively paying back al…
"[Even] as krump has journeyed from the streets to screens and stages, it remains a protest art," writes Sarah Kaufman. That's why, at a demonstration on Sunday in Santa Monica, Jo'Artis Rat…
A handful of dancers have taken to Instagram to directly call out the problems they've seen in their own companies. " Dance Magazine
Not only will library staff have to deal with a raft of new safety procedures and protective equipment, they will be faced with enforcing mask-wearing and distancing rules on potentially rec…
