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Some performers get their fans involved " whether by taking requests or doing Q&As, virtual charity festivals or tutorials like Duran Duran star John Taylor with his bass masterclasses a…
"Youths see [in speculative fiction] examples of young people grappling with serious social, economic, and political issues that are timely and relevant, but in settings or times that offer …
The moisture that comes out of singers' mouths and into the air that their fellow singers are breathing seems to be a very efficient way of transmitting coronavirus, as several cases of mult…
Rothenberg's paintings are spare and stark"frequently understated in their color palette and simple in their form. But through even the vague suggestion of figures, Rothenberg was able to cr…
Violinist Jennifer Koh has been commissioning more than 40 pieces for herself to play unaccompanied on her weekly Facebook Live show. So are other musicians and organizations, from the New J…
Young Iranian composers have set up a network for mentorship, commissioning and presenting. " The New York Times
"For about 10 years, between the era of Shirley Temple in the 1930s and before Jerry Mathers appeared on TV's Leave It to Beaver in the late 1950s, Joel Kupperman may have been the most famo…
ArtUK has released a tool that allows anyone to build, annotate and share their own online show of digital art. Which art? Anything in public collections in the UK, so there's a lot to choos…
"Digital juggernaut Pornhub has offered itself as a streaming partner to Germany's Oldenburg Film Festival, a 26-year-old indie movie event known for edgy programming and quirky celebrity tr…
When processed by childhood Pokémon players, the images lit up a small groove in the temporal lobe that remained mostly inactive in the brains of Pokémon newbies. " Aeon
On the 1910 version of the painting, housed at the Munch Museum in Oslo, the cadmium yellow in the sky and the lake has been fading to off-white and flaking off for years, with light believe…
"Even when he was a big name, Piccoli was never too proud to play small supporting roles or even bit parts if he liked the screenplay. But whatever the size of the role, whether playing a go…
"Despite being well-managed, well governed, and " crucially " able to operate without public subsidy," says the statement, "we will not be able to survive this crisis," the coronavirus epide…
"North Texas arts organizations tuned in eagerly at 2 p.m. Monday to hear Gov. Greg Abbott's address regarding 'Phase Two' of the effort to reopen the state's economy, which, they thought, w…
This year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which had already been rescheduled from this spring to August, will now take place in the late summer and fall of 2021; next year's (art) Biennale w…
From 2005:
I noticed the other day that I'd stopped taking time off on weekends. No, it's not that I'm in the vise-like grip of an obsession: it's that my weekly routine gradually changed wi…
"PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success."
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Continue reading Almanac: Ambrose Bierce on perseverence at Abo…
Beans and poverty. Beans and diversity. "Here's a recipe" leads to a doubtful bean cul-de-sac, no matter how much chopped and shredded you throw on top and shove in the oven till the eternal…
If we as a nation come out of the pandemic with a heightened awareness of and reaction to profound economic inequality and the systemic injustice in which it is rooted, it could be that the …
Opera America had asked me to speak at their annual conference this year, but of course the conference was canceled and moved online. So I made this video for the online conference, talking …
Opera America had asked me to speak at their annual conference this year, but of course the conference was canceled and moved online. So I made this video for the online conference, talking …
Publishing books about an unfolding calamity, when the duration and outcome remain uncertain, carries obvious risks for authors and publishers. With so many unanswered questions about the vi…
The grants, which are also available for live performance spaces, "will take arts fees paid by developers in support of now-canceled or planned cultural events and instead make the money ava…
The Strip may be closed, but Las Vegas is so much more than gambling " or at least that's what its chroniclers show. "In the absence of take-my-hand influencers, creative control of Instagra…
"In fact, no correlation exists between population density and rates of COVID-19 infection, according to recent studies examining the disease in China and Chicago. But if state and local gov…
