In ports of call known for their cruise appeal, the disappearance of boat-borne tourism has been greeted with mixed feelings. Many towns and cities depend in part on revenue from these vacat…
Arthur Brand estimates that a work of art in the criminal underworld is worth about 10 percent of its value in the legitimate art market " so if a painting might sell for $10 million at auct…
While thought experiments are as old as philosophy itself, the weight placed on them in recent philosophy is distinctive. Even when scenarios are highly unrealistic, judgments about them are…
In 2018, the first British Minister for Loneliness was appointed and the government published A Connected Society. In the preface, the country's then prime minister Theresa May referred to r…
There have been times that coffee as a commodity was more valuable than most currencies. Cultures have been built around the bean, and destroyed others who have been exploited for it. " Time…
In a shift of consumer patterns, in the first 16 weeks of the year, 47 percent of Italy's trade book sales, both in fiction and nonfiction, took place online. In the same period of 2019, onl…
The maintenance man stopped worrying about paint touchups and HVAC repair and started assisting the development department by drafting thank you notes for donors, making use of his beauti…
"Much like the 'stans' of pop figures and franchises, members of TikTok cults stream songs, buy merch, create news update accounts and fervently defend their leaders in the comment sections …
The prospect of reopening under the current circumstances also raises vexing strategic dilemmas. In recent years, museums have developed a sophisticated understanding of the many barriers to…
"An icon of the stage, Makarova was beloved for her grandeur and spontaneity, the same qualities that led her, in 1970, to become the first Russian ballerina to escape the Soviets. But she h…
Many of the projects under Vulcan's Arts + Entertainment division stemmed from Vulcan co-founder Paul Allen's personal interests, and served as showplaces for his collections: his movie cost…
"As part of our ongoing coverage about the crisis theater faces, and the possible ways out of it, [Tim Teeman] spoke to a range of theater professionals, enduring unemployment and hoping one…
Exact performance dates will be announced for each offering throughout the year, along with such "details" as venue (Writers has two stages), and the names of the full casts and creative tea…
Despite the fact that American pop culture and the ability to speak English are considered very cool in Japan, multinational companies want their employees to know the language, and the Japa…
The former CEO of the Kennedy Center and his colleagues at the DeVos Institute of Arts Management are giving pro bono consultations to more than 400 organizations. "In phone calls with group…
"Patients and health-care workers at Penn Medicine's six sites can now access a service that brings them archived performance videos of the Philadelphia Orchestra. … New performances will …
"[He] is most commonly associated with the Light and Space movement, which was pioneered by a group of artists working in California during the 1960s. … Alexander wound up producing unders…
Well, mostly settled. "A virtual first night in July will see more than 350 musicians play together in a Beethoven 'mash-up' [of the nine symphonies] having each recorded their part from hom…
"Archaeologists were astonished by the find as it came almost a century after the remains of a villa, believed to date to the 3rd century AD, were unearthed in a hilly area above the town of…
In places such as Georgia (the first state to reopen), Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Utah, independent cinemas are operating again. (The chains are staying closed for now.) Yet attendance is g…
"[The] Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom plan to open again on July 11, while Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios will resume business on July 15. SeaWorld, meanwhile, will reopen to the pub…
"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair." Elie Wiesel, Nobel lecture, December 11, 1986 Continue reading Almanac: Elie Wiesel on despair at Abou…
The huge numbers reported in watching and listening to streaming performances are in stark contrast with "decades of dire warnings and disheartening statistics about shrinking classical audi…
A category only exists in relation to other categories, similarly constituted. You would need to establish a number of other clearly defined hierarchies of value, or centers of interest, gen…
An author, essayist and playwright " notably hailed for his autobiographical 1985 play, "The Normal Heart" " Mr. Kramer had feet in both the world of letters and the public sphere. In 1981 h…