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Global downloads for Plague Inc, a 2012 video game that encourages players to spread a disease around the world before a cure is found, increased by an annual 123% from January to March this…
In D.C., you see, it is legal to possess marijuana but not to sell it; there is, however, no law against giving it away. So the enterprising proprietors of District Derp gallery got the idea…
For decades, most authors writing in French in Africa have had to publish their books in France, partly because of a lack of publishing infrastructure at home and partly because French compa…
"Afrolit Sans Frontières, a series of hourlong readings and question-and-answer sessions held entirely on Facebook and Instagram, kicked off on March 23 and [is recurring monthly]. In the f…
Laura Collins-Hughes: "As we flock online in these isolated, uncertain days, looking to sate our theater cravings, a lot of us are watching plays we have already seen onstage " familiar comf…
In addition to his triumphs in Europe, he was one of the few French singers of his time to have a big career in the U.S., notably in Chicago and Philadelphia and at the Met, where he sang fo…
Justin Davidson: "There is a cohort of artists and presenters who, long before the great contagion, were already rethinking the physical relationships between performers, audience, and space…
Categories of books that sold best last month were fiction, cookbooks, and children's books, but compared with April 2019, sales were largely down at the indies contacted. Most saw declines …
By the time new Washington Post classical critic Michael Andor Brodeur confesses that he used to listen to Feldman at the supermarket and when stuck in traffic, you might think he's not impa…
Asking a Medieval person to imagine the world and their place on it would demand a radically different sort of cognitive map than one a modern person might rely on. This affects pragmatic ma…
Alexis Soloski: "The glut of new content speaks to the reach and ubiquity of his work, the open-source accessibility of his plays, the confidence that if you do share a snippet of pentameter…
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' first published in 1798, is … the dream-poem of right now." It's currently appearing on YouTube in short daily installments re…
"It will hear only individual appeals about specific content that the company has removed from the service " and only a fraction of those appeals. The board can't say anything about the toxi…
"In designing this new organization, Facebook's leaders … formed a separate legal trust with an initial $130 million investment from Facebook. But they also empowered that trust to both ac…
"In California, all construction " including museum expansions " has been categorized as essential. While much of the art world is standing still, expansions at LACMA, the Hammer, and other …
Flutist Stephanie Winker has been organizing these very intimate events at the airport and in other locations around Stuttgart " inspired, she says, by The Artist Is Present, the project in …
"Set up in the 1960s via international treaty, Intelsat SA has played a critical and often-overlooked role providing connectivity infrastructure for more than a half century so that humanity…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the Irish Repertory Theatre's online webcast version of Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney. Here's an excerpt.
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A BBC "Arena" TV documentary about Paul Scofield, produced and directed by David Thompson and originally telecast on December 24, 2008:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-…
"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very p…
"Most often associated with the Grupo Frente movement of the 1950s and '60s, Palatnik was among the first Brazilian artists to take up a style called Concretism, which envisioned formalist g…
"The weird feel of us meeting in a virtual fishtank, with real people able to peek in, makes me think of a possible future where performers work in VR, while directors or creators observe in…
Dirk Obbink was perhaps the world's most admired expert in Greek-language papyrus fragments from the early centuries of the Christian era " which is why he was recruited by Hobby Lobby presi…
We isolate them together, seal them off, protect them from the larger world. It's not like this in other cultures. So why is that? " Aeon
"If things are not yet 100 percent (in Chicago in September), it's possible we could have a group of the orchestra divided into two parts: a group of 45, 50 people (and) another group of 45,…
