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Gail Beckerman joins a New York literary salon now hosted remotely from Nairobi ("I'd never had the experience of watching in close-up such a large group of people actively listening"), the …
From our present experience of the internet, what changes might we expect? We are all André Malraux now. To create his "museum without walls," an archive of images from around the world, be…
Philosophers have long concerned themselves with what they call "the paradox of fiction""why would we find imagined stories emotionally arousing at all? The answer is that most of our mind d…
The economy's reliance on live events has been growing for years. When Disneyland opened in 1955, it sparked a boom in the theme park business. In recent decades, the Wizarding World of Harr…
Our preconceived ideas about a composer or piece can keep us from listening with fresh ears. An intermezzo by the mighty Brahms? Before you hear a note, you may already have decided it's gre…
LA City Council unanimously approved two motions that repurpose arts fees paid by developers in support of now-canceled or planned cultural events as small-dollar grants to artists, arts org…
"The results " from a survey of roughly 1,000 people in mid-May by sports and events analytics firm Performance Research, in partnership with Full Circle Research Co. " point to just how ste…
""This is my second plague," he said he told his company recently. 'I know it's kind of a coarse thing to say. They're different, but they have things in common.' Yes, the circumstances of t…
"It was known in Cromwell's time as sudor anglicus, meaning the 'English sweat,' and there were five outbreaks of it in England, the first in 1485 and the last in 1551. Victims did, in fact,…
The cello concerts have the added bonus of another San Francisco shelter-in-place trend. Page Street is one of an increasing number of roads closed to through traffic to give people space to…
The Drive-In Festival, conceived by a small group of French movie execs, shows one title a day ("popular director-driven films" rather than "blockbusters or new releases") for a week, chargi…
My wife Hilary died a bit more than two months ago. I wrote a fair amount about her passing at the time, but of late I've limited myself to the occasional tweet. That's not because I'm over …
"Even before the pandemic, the sprawling company was struggling with bloat and creative fatigue after a consortium led by an American private equity firm acquired it in 2015, and accelerated…
If, that is, the players remain one meter apart, per current regulations. The research, commissioned by the Vienna Philharmonic and carried out earlier this month, "involved members of the o…
There will be strict rules in place for the time being: audience limits of 200 indoors and 1,000 outdoors, one meter's distance between individuals, masks and temperature checks required, ma…
Among the venues receiving the public this week are the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, and the Duomo in Florence " each with its own limits on visitor traffic, b…
"With a list of conditions that will leave most venue operators scratching their heads, venues can reopen on the basis that a maximum of 30 people " including staff " are allowed in at any o…
My latest Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column is about the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on smaller arts organizations and the neighborhoods they serve. Here's an excerpt.
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"Every time that a human being succeeds in making an effort of attention with the sole idea of increasing his grasp of truth, he acquires a greater aptitude for grasping it, even if his effo…
Time and again while listening to the new recording of David Hertzberg's opera, I asked myself, What zeitgeist did this arrive from? What cultural phenomenon contributed to why it was writte…
"It behooves us to spend some time considering how we might prepare not just for a new financial reality but for a new social one. It will be important to be and be seen as partners in makin…
It includes $100 billion for rental assistance, another round of $1,200 direct payments to taxpayers, and sets aside 25 percent of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans for nonprofit…
Today's internet generations have been graced with equity at birth, in that they have the means to create power for themselves, even if they do not start out with it. In the digital world, t…
"The dual nature of power and truth results in the curious fact that we humans know many more truths than any other animal, but we also believe in much more nonsense. We are both the smartes…
"If I want to improvise during "Mary Had a Little Lamb," for example, first I memorize it. That's because when I'm performing onstage, I want to let my mind be completely free. "Mary Had a L…
