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Science is evidence-based. History is evidence. So why can't we apply scientific method to history? Because historical record is a very messy business. " Aeon
"They stand five feet apart, cannot hold hands, kiss or simulate a brawl, but the cast and crew of Neighbours " a long-running Australian soap opera that returned to production in late April…
It remains unclear when Broadway might reopen. Many industry officials believe it will be considerably later than Labor Day. The practical effect of Tuesday's announcement is that box office…
"The specialist Court of Arbitration for Art … [was created in 2019] to adjudicate art world matters ranging from chain of title, authenticity and copyright fair use. Last year, the panel …
More than just a logistical feat, the phone call has become a singular measurement of how worried, desperate and vulnerable cultural organizations have become since the virus hit. And just a…
"The story of how the image of Buddha finally broke forth into the world after 600 years of symbolism is one of the most intriguing in the history of art " one that is inextricably tied up w…
The bookshelf has become the background of choice on Zoom calls from home. These aren't random choices. The books and objects on your shelves say things about you. And now the game of figuri…
"Sex is an experience of intense vulnerability, and it is also where we are at our most performative, and so it's at once as near to and as far from authenticity as we come. … Sex is a uni…
In the land of the Taliban? Yes " Afghanistan is historically part of the Persianate world (Dari, the official language, is a Persian dialect), and metaphor-filled erotic poetry has a thousa…
In July, the Rome Opera will stage Verdi's Rigoletto, conducted by Daniele Gatti, in the Piazza di Siena, a venue on the grounds of the Villa Borghese normally used for equestrian events. Au…
"[A] 60-page document, entitled Our Plan to Rebuild, sets out that cinemas are part of a 'high-risk' group of businesses that will be the last to reopen from July 4 onwards" " and even that …
In place of a regular mainstage season, Theater Latté Da in Minneapolis will expand its "Next" workshopping program, "making public the shows it is developing for the future, keeping writer…
"This rural compound in India's southern tip is one of the few places where professional dancers can still do what the rest of the performing arts world can only dream about. At Nrityagram, …
"[He was] one of the four founders of Visual AIDS and an organizer of the first Day Without Art … [and] his nearly four-decade career in museums included tenures at the Grey Art Gallery at…
From 2004:
"I watched the tail end of Master and Commander after I got home from a dinner party in Washington Heights last night, then read myself to sleep with the last chapter of Dav…
"Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship."
Epicurus, Principal Doctrines (trans. Robert Drew Hicks)
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Here's an ingenious 45-minute film by Behrouz Jamali that revealingly juxtaposes the music Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky wrote in response to World War II. The video artist Peter B…
"[He] rose to national prominence on a barrage of one-line jokes and sly ethnic humor, with his Jewish background and [wife/partner Anne] Meara's Irish Catholic heritage forming a comic moti…
Of the chorus of 130, 102 were diagnosed with the virus. " Diapason
The stock movement was notable. AMC shares were trading at $5.62, up nearly 40%. They had been up as much as 70% in premarket trade. " Deadline
"For the dance division, it really was the only significant gap left that we had in telling the story of early American modern dance. We've had material belonging to Martha Graham in the arc…
The campaign calls for solutions to the problems that the lockdown has inflicted on musicians. The suspension of live music under lockdown has cut off most artists' one dependable source of …
As Little Richard himself described his effect on body and spirit, "My music made your liver quiver, your bladder splatter, your knees freeze"and your big toe shoot right up in your boot!"
Will publishers finally use their data to sell books themselves instead of relying on the fragile chain that is Amazon? Will indies survive? Will they survive if they combine forces? It's al…
"What does it mean to be worth something? Or worth enough? Or worthless? What does it mean to earn a living? What does it mean to be hired? What does it mean to be let go? It's May now. More…
