One Canadian library director said, "It was very, very good news in a very dark period." (But the cheaper prices are set to end mid-June, when physical libraries may be partially opening bac…
Podcast host Akilah Hughes on Twitter in response the news that the 2011 white savior movie The Help is topping Netflix's most-watched lists: "If you watched the Help this week you have to d…
The Swiss art fair held out for a long time. Then, on May 30, dealers sent a letter. "'Art Basel is the most important and powerful art fair in the world but even in the best possible scenar…
The recording studios in London, which didn't close even during WWII, had been shuttered for ten weeks during the coronavirus lockdown. Managing director Isabel Garvey: "Ordinarily we would …
Save that? Better to take the South Bank apart, piece by piece, in a period when there is no performance, so that it can put it together again under entrepreneurial management over the next …
There are now more than 12,000 cinemas in China, according to market research firm IBISWorld. This figure has more than doubled in the past decade as China has embraced movie-going. But four…
The true origins of the expression "shit hits the fan" are largely undetermined, though some sources suggest that Canada is to blame"it might have come from particularly picturesque Canadian…
In recent years, designers and city-builders have largely come to reject defensive strategies and the exclusionary policies from which they stemmed. Great public spaces are now built with fl…
A new Twitter account, called "Open Your Lobby," has encouraged theaters to welcome protesters. A post from the account recommended that the theaters "not permit police inside of the buildin…
Kids are now watching twice as many videos per day as they did just four years ago. This is despite the fact that YouTube's flagship app is meant for ages 13 and up " an age-gate that was ne…
His tenure as a senior administrator in the Florentine Republic saw many more failures than successes; he was bounced into prison and then exile after the Medici returned to power; when he f…
Conventional jazz harmony is religiously chord-based, with soloists improvising within each key like balls pinging through a pinball machine. Coleman, in contrast, imagined harmony, melody, …
At a site in Limmen National Park in the Northern Territory are 17 paintings, stenciled on rock, that are far smaller than usual for such art, featuring detailed renderings of humans, kangar…
Instead of choosing the best from an incomplete list, I decided to play a different game. Looking back at the last 10 years of Tony winners, I came up with my own nominations and winners for…
Here's how songwriters Adam Schlesinger and David Javerbaum and host/lead performer Neil Patrick Harris concocted, and got away with, the immortal intro to the 2011 Tony Awards telecast, "It…
Virus impacts aren't a short-term blip for the funded arts to be ameliorated by nifty footwork, strategised centrally and 'top down' in the coteries of arts power. Short-term bail-outs are i…
Last month, a few musicians in Stuttgart began giving intimate-yet-socially-distanced performances " one performer, one listener, a couple of meters of empty space between them " at the city…
"The funds, which will be made available this year and next year, will be widely distributed across cinemas, music clubs, memorials, museums, theaters, and festivals. €250 million will…
"The group of more than 50 claimants " none of whom wanted to be named " includes major contemporary art galleries, museums and sole traders, with claims ranging from around £50,000 to …
"Audiobook publishers are increasingly offering opportunities to narrators of color, … a response to a broader range of stories and desire for the voice talent to reflect that diversity. �…
"As protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd continue around the country, THR's Daniel Fienberg and Inkoo Kang reflect on the small screen's struggle to depict police violence and comm…
"Over the past few years, calls for the ballet world to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive have become a regular rallying cry. Most of the public complaints, however, have been abo…
Residents and interested observers have been concerned for years about the local economy's addiction to mass tourism and the ills that accompany it. Italy's COVID lockdown has, at least temp…
"What's really important is to take a step back and look at the macro picture, and think through, how did we get here? What are the underlying causes? There's this phrase flying around a lot…
With the huge drop in population following the Black Death, peasants and laborers were able to take advantage of the labor shortage to demand higher pay and improve their lives. Those who ha…