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Today, scientists are grappling with the problem of model uncertainty, as seen in areas like climate and medicine. These questions are increasingly challenging the basis of modern scientific…
A self-taught engineer, AJ virtually created the rigging industry out of a background in theatre lighting. When he began, in the early 1980s, technicians still hung their own lights, but in …
Why this wealth of talent has arrived right now isn't easy to pinpoint, but they definitely spur each other on. There's healthy competition " ballet boys can't resist a pirouette-off; Corral…
"It is a very expensive art form, but it is crucial because it has such a worldwide impact… and so we have to find a way to make sure these marvellous people and organisations are going to…
Charles McNulty: "Stuck indoors with little to distract us from the bewilderment of our metaphysical predicament, we are like one of his immobilized characters, not scrunched into trash cans…
Founded in 1961, the Palm Beach Opera is seeking an experienced and passionate Director of Marketing. As a member of the senior leadership team and be responsible for setting, achieving, and…
Sponsors and donors' valuation of our public culture is of an order very different from everyone else's. For big oil, big pharmaceutical companies and the arms industry, it is not simply a c…
"The July 18 attack on Kyoto Animation, a famed anime studio that produced popular 'slice of life' shows and movies," killed 36 people and was the worst mass murder in Japan in decades. "Off…
Bucking the trend in classical music of often low-quality livestreams, yet not wanting to lay low completely, Timo Andres decided to salvage his Carnegie program by documenting it as a serie…
"A cache of 2,400 letters between the poet and his long-time lover and muse, Monica Jones, … reveal[s] the full extent of her fury, fears and frustrations over a painful four-decade-long p…
"What I like about streaming right now is I get excited about it … My mom's in Guatemala. My mom and dad are retired and my mom tunes into the streams," Nonfiction said. "My parents never …
At least two-thirds of eligible employees have signed authorization cards to request that the National Labor Relations Board oversee a union election, according to organizers. The union at t…
Saying "I do not think that making everything safe for the audience " although that is important " and leaving the the people on stage to be epidemiological guinea pigs is the right answer,"…
A staff conductor at the Met for 21 years, Revzen served as artistic director of Arizona Opera (2003-2012) and Berkshire Opera (1991-2005) and was, from 2012, the founding artistic director …
"For the past two months, he has experimented with making dances using Zoom and Final Cut Pro. Four of these short works will premiere on 'Dance On!,' to be shown on the Mark Morris Dance Gr…
The piece, titled Game Changer and showing a boy leaving his other superhero action figures behind for one of a nurse, had been in Southampton General Hospital in England for all of two days…
"A New York Times/Siena College Research Institute poll, administered [last week], sought to gauge how soon New Yorkers would be comfortable attending live performances like Broadway shows. …
That's the grim figure that the Milan opera house's new superintendent, Dominique Meyer, will present to its board of directors on Thursday. Under the law that Italy's parliament passed last…
No specific program has been announced yet, but "look for some combination of performances presented online, outside, or in other ways that maintain social distance. The festival will contin…
Jerry Lewis "introduces" James Brown on The Jerry Lewis Show in 1968:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday…
"Human life begins on the far side of despair."
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Flies
Continue reading Almanac: Sartre on despair at About Last Night.
What computer scientists and neuroscientists are after is a universal theory of intelligence"a set of principles that holds true both in tissue and in silicon. What they have instead is a mu…
"The public square is thick today with augurs and prophets claiming to foresee the post-Covid world to come. I, myself, who find sundown something of a surprise every evening, have been purs…
"This tiny coronavirus has showed us in a painful way that humanity is a single organism and human existence is possible only in relation to other living beings. The notion of "relationship"…
How does a university with a $6-billion endowment and $10 billion in assets suddenly find itself in a solvency crisis? How is one of the country's top research universities reduced, just a m…
