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Fame is intense but fleeting in a TV-driven culture, which is one of the many reasons why I love watching the old What's My Line? kinescopes that air at three-thirty each mo…
"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
Continue reading Almanac: Graham Greene on childhood at About Las…
Internet Archive has made more than 1.3 million books available for free online, according to the complaint, which were scanned and available to one borrower at a time for a period of 14 day…
"In fact, they are very humble projects, very simple projects, but they need to be put together in an incredibly clever way," Christo once told Artnet News. " Artnet
"TV has long had a police's-eye perspective that helps shape the way viewers see the world, prioritizing the victories and struggles of police over communities being policed. Order, a police…
Of late Matthew Flinders has been exploring the notion of "crisis fatigue," or the idea that after years of constant bad news, perhaps we've grown numb to warnings from politicians of yet mo…
Protesting. Even during a global pandemic. Think about that for a second. How furious do people have to be to gather in the streets at a time when a highly infectious disease is killing thou…
Some 1,600 people reserved tickets in advance to see the Sistine Chapel and its sublime walls and ceilings on the first day the Vatican Museums opened to the public after a three-month coron…
"They describe a society that is clear-eyed about the disparities that have made this pandemic so much worse for some communities than for others. They call on us to sustain each other throu…
Social media essentially gives a megaphone to the extremes, so it's very hard to know what most people really think. "And when you look at the people who are loudest on Twitter and elsewhere…
Hilary Teachout, my beloved wife and life's companion, died two months ago this Sunday, and her ashes were returned to me a week and a half ago. Save for that bleak landmark, nothing much ha…
Much of the history of Western philosophy can be narrated as a series of attempts to construct systems. Conversely, much of the history of aphorisms can be narrated as an animadversion, a tu…
Arts Management graduate classes are offered on flexible schedules and taught by faculty from top arts organizations in the DC Metro area.
Ms. Stark Smith, whose signature braid became longer and grayer over time, was also a prolific writer and respected teacher who, beginning in 1990, developed what she called "Underscore," a …
April Gornik and Eric Fischl want to make the Sag Harbor Methodist Church into a community arts center … whenever people can gather again. Fischl: "We have to stop thinking about art as ar…
Yay women doing TV! Also, having to "yay" this means it's not going that well with the whole ending of inequality thing. "The good news: The number of women working behind the scenes in tele…
The virus has devastated the jazz community in New York. But "there's a funny thing about jazz: It keeps roaring back to life. Live music returns to Smalls on June 1, in a socially distant w…
Five artists finished the mural in 12 hours last week after the officers involved in George Floyd's death weren't all four arrested and charged with a crime. "The mural has quickly become a …
At that time, says Hilary Mantel, we would have been quarantining more seriously. "Speaking at the Hay literary festival, which is entirely online this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, …
In Prague, the opening is going in fits and starts, but theatre companies like the Czech National Theatre are more than ready. "The drive-in theater at Prague's vegetable market was an ambit…
There's DJing with the dance glitterati on Instagram Live, there's the brewing of kombucha, and, of course, there's learning how to make pancake tutus. " Dance Magazine
In a sudden shift, Asolo Theatre in Florida had to figure out whether to keep going with its education programs even as students and parents were competing for limited Wi-Fi and screen time,…
The pianist Igor Levit played a livestream of Erik Satie's famous, mysterious work, consisting of four lines repeated 840 times, on Sunday. And, well: "The fascinating livestream occasionall…
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation (called "Binc") is a nonprofit created to help booksellers. "Since the pandemic started, Binc has seen requests for assistance increase by 321%. And […
Sarah Maldoror was "a Euro-Caribbean filmmaker trained in the Soviet Union" " and the director, who died of the coronavirus in April of this year, never stopped; "she kept fighting in a worl…
