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Jack Mangan interviews Graham Greene about The Third Man on board the S.S. Queen Mary. This clip was originally telecast in 1950 by WJZ-TV as part of Ship's Reporter, a TV series in…
"The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pai…
Around 70 per cent of the auditorium's seats have been removed, with every second row cleared and seats arranged either individually or in pairs on the remaining rows. " Dezeen
Our internal clocks and external cues have fallen out of sync, explains Anthony M. Tobia, associate professor of the Division of Consultation Psychiatry at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Me…
The uncomfortable truth is that the age of the Renaissance contributed very little to innovation in science. This was largely because the revival of classical learning and languages concentr…
Perhaps no innovations have been as far-reaching as the set of boundary-smashing experiments that a small group of producers performed on multi-track recording machines and mixing desks in a…
Several black actors, writers, and others working in the New York theater have come forward to share the stories of the racism embedded in the industry. Many of them described hearing subtly…
It's not film. (Except when it is.) It's definitely not television. It's…theatre on a screen? As COVID-19 continues to force industries online, one Bay Area organization is exploring a hyb…
So why is the computer good at certain tasks whereas the brain is better at others? Comparing the computer and the brain has been instructive to both computer engineers and neuroscientists. …
"Mr. Friedman, who also wrote the screenplays for the hit film comedies Stir Crazy and Splash, was an unusual case in American letters: an essentially comic writer whose work skipped back an…
The clap serves the same purpose as the clapperboard used on TV and movie sets. You, too, will be editing the audio and video separately; the clap creates a visual and sonic marker that help…
Believe it or not, writes Dr. Jin Lee, it was a by-product of the First Opium War, after which Shanghai turned from a little river town into a huge, prosperous international port city. " Lit…
"Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi gallery in Florence, told the press [last week] that he thought many religious works of art currently in Italy's museums and stores should be return…
"After weeks of planning, registration is now underway for the UBC Virtual Competition Experience, which will run from June 12"14. The competition is two-fold: Participants will submit video…
According to ICOM, out of the 1,600 international museums that were surveyed, 13 percent reported that they had plans to close permanently, and another 19.2 percent said the future of their …
"Last week in [a small] city in eastern France, the residents and staff of a nursing home watched from a safe distance " some from windows and balconies " as five actors appeared in the buil…
"There's a long-running adage about working for free in the performing arts. 'The problem with working for exposure,' it goes, 'is you can die from exposure'." With arts companies all over t…
"In an Instagram statement that explicitly mentioned the Black Lives Matter movement and Floyd's death, the museum wrote, 'The Walker will no longer contract the services of the Minneapolis …
"Grist, a 20-year-old nonprofit online magazine that focuses on climate and environmental coverage, has taking full ownership of all the assets of what's left of Pacific Standard, an award-w…
"Frank Almond, concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony for the last 25 years, has stepped down from his role. The violinist originally announced last year that this would be his last season …
It'll be to an empty house, though; social distancing isn't over yet. The Live from Covent Garden series, streamed over the Royal Opera House's YouTube and Facebook pages, begins on June 13 …
"Artistic director Thierry Frémaux picked a total of 56 films for the Cannes 2020 selection, many of which had planned to premiere on the Croisette. Instead, they will now screen at differe…
"People don't like reality,. They don't like common sense. Until age forces it on them."
Graham Greene, Loser Takes All
Continue reading Almanac: Graham Greene on realism at About Last Ni…
In a striking departure from their customary reluctance to take strong political stands that would alienate some visitors, art museums around the country, speaking separately but with one vo…
French art institutions"including the Louvre, the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d'Orsay, and the Grand Palais"revealed this week that they are planning to welcome visitors again in June and Ju…
