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Instead of a virtual Cannes, though, the prestigious festival "will be organizing a 'redeployment 'outside the walls' (of Cannes), in collaboration with fall festivals,' said the spokesperso…
In Victorian times, Â long exposure times meant moms had to find a way to keep their little ones sitting still long enough to be seen, while also fading into the background themselves." " …
Robertson loved classical lines, but "there was no inconsistency between his love of grand classical architecture and his passionate belief in cities: It was all about finding ways to turn t…
So Tenet is scheduled to come out July 17, which seemed like a long time ago when the lockdown began, but … wow, that's soon. "The equation being pored over in Hollywood is whether pent-up…
French publishing, and its associated literary prizes like the (now somewhat disgraced) Goncourt, has long crowded the fall with a flood of titles (which has, in normal years, made the sprin…
Odell's simply considering things, not worried about producing art during the lockdown. "I have been thinking about that redirecting of attention. Our grocery store has the usual spaced-out …
For students at performing arts schools, the lost senior recitals, plays, dance recitals and more are not just about losing the opportunity to share performances with family: This is their c…
Linda Boström Knausgard has some pretty good ideas about that. The writer, ex-wife of Karl Ove Knausgard, has published two of her own novels in quick succession. "It's a fresh start. Most …
Wright, whose first hit came when she was 17 and who produced and mentored scores of other performers as she aged, had 20 singles in the Billboard R&B Top 40 and a voice that blew other …
Or rather, misuses the textile, a late-18th-century military rank badge. "Byron Breedlove and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, authors of the cover feature 'Auspicious Symbols of Rank and Status,' try t…
What does he think will happen now? "Nothing will go back to how it was and the new normal will reflect some aspects of lockdown life. More people will work from home, more people will cook …
What if concerts were announced one or two at a time, just a week or two in advance? The tickets would be sold per concert, not per season, and the marketing would be heavy on social media. …
Assuming the captions are at all accurate, these images " until recently only accessible by trudging through the archives date by date and document by document " can be searched for by their…
Dreams shroud the waking world, dazzling and disturbing it with mystery, perplexity, novelty, anxiety, terror, hope, and possibility. " Cultural Weekly
"Anger is epistemically valuable not just for the individual, but also for those around them. When co-opted skilfully by just causes, anger enables victims to identify similarities in their …
Most kinds of longing can be settled in one way or another, if not necessarily to the satisfaction of the yearner. Nostalgia can only be lived in or abandoned: it is yearning distilled to it…
It's no secret, since I haven't made it one here or elsewhere, that I've been having a rocky time of it for the past month. Grief maintains its own inexorable schedule without reference to t…
A rare 1953 promotional film for the Hollywood String Quartet, a group led by Felix Slatkin (Leonard Slatkin's father) and comprised of the first-chair string players of Hollywood's film-stu…
"To have been happy, madame, leads to calamity."
Beaumont and Fletcher, The Fair Maid of the Inn
Continue reading Almanac: Beaumont and Fletcher on happiness at About Last Night.
Actually, Marabar, the million-pound granite sculpture, isn't the problem: The National Geographic Society's plan for expansion is the problem. Artist Elyn Zimmerman isn't happy with the pla…
Little Richard, the pianist and singer behind "Long Tall Sally," "Tutti Frutti," and many more, was the epitome of early rock and roll. His musical influence was massive, but his "stage pers…
After many members of SAG-AFTRA and other Hollywood unions were locked out of a bill that was supposed to help freelance and self-employed artists, the unions are calling for changes. "Music…
The innovative music executive founded Uptown Records and changed the sound of R&B and rap in the 1980 and 1990s. " The New York Times
Australian writer Mem Fox knows what it's like to worry about being well enough, surviving long enough, to finish a book. "She feels the terror in her body " something like cold sweats and s…
"'Finally, there's a glimmer of hope!' wrote one enthusiastic cinephile." " Variety
