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"I would only say that some artists feel a curiosity about examining the phenomenology of those things. It is investigative work, not just emotional work, that can enable an artist to determ…
Pianist Kirrill Gerstein and composer Thomas Ades have been in a musical conversation of the sort that happens only when two people intrinsically seem to understand what the other is trying …
Domhnaill Hernon: "I believe that the arts could be (should be) more transformational in the way they inform more human-centric design. I believe that the arts should be deeply integrated in…
He said the coming months should be ones of "learning and culture," as opposed to travel and leisure. (France has also imposed limits on international travelers for the summer months). He ad…
"[Worldwide Ballet Class] stands out for offering dancers of all levels the opportunity to take open company class alongside professional dancers, six days a week … taught by the likes of …
"Officials from Egypt's antiquities ministry recently announced that [four] ram-headed sphinxes had been taken from the Karnak temple in Luxor to the capital's busy traffic roundabout, where…
Some, like A24 and Sony Pictures Classics, are sticking with the existing theater-first model and waiting the COVID lockdown out; says a top Sony exec, "Without theatrical, the business disa…
"Since mid-March more than 70,000 extra creators have joined Patreon, which allows fans to give monthly payments to artists in exchange for exclusive content or simply out of a desire to sup…
Kara Swisher: "I am not trying to be glib here, because solving the problem of how to deal with speech across the largest and most unwieldy communications platform in human history … may b…
A 5.4 magnitude temblor hit the Croatian capital, Zagreb, in late March. "Over 80% of [the city's] museums are in buildings that date from before the Second World War and most of them have r…
One gallery owner said, "Art is so important. We're more important than other businesses. I want to be taken seriously." Another said, "We refuse to die here in the tunnel. We're pushing thr…
"The 'nominal' payment will apply to all the productions the National has been streaming on YouTube since early April. The venue said it was up to the artists whether they chose to accept it…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review a webcast of Shakespeare Festival St. Louis' "TourCo" production of Cymbeline. Here's an excerpt.
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Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, and Marian Seldes appear in "The Laugh Maker," a drama by A.J. Russell, directed by Paul Nickell and originally telecast live by CBS on Studio One in 1953:
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"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."
James Russell Lowell, "Dryden"
Continue reading Almanac: James Russell Lowell on solitude at About Last…
The Television Academy ruled in March that effective in 2021, programs that have been nominated for an Oscar will no longer be eligible for the Emmys competition." says the TV Academy in a s…
Before the coronavirus crisis, the drive-through had been fast losing status, often deployed as a symbol of obesity and the worst of car-dependent urban design. In many cities, it had been s…
"We will ultimately return to enjoying such collective experiences " as they "appeal to the human nature" " but only after most people in the country have either been infected with the disea…
With author events cancelled, titles delayed and bookshop sales severely hit by lockdown, the survey of 72 small publishers reveals almost 60% fear closure by the autumn. The Bookseller said…
Police officers in Spain recovered several rare pre-Columbian objects at Madrid's Barajas airport, including a unique Tumaco gold mask, gold figurines and pieces of ancient jewellery. All ha…
"[Maria Forteza's documentary] Mallorca, an eight-minute, black-and-white sweep across the Balearic island inspired by the music of the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz, was donated to the na…
In New York"and likely everywhere"the venues best able to answer these questions are the smallest ones. They are so because they present music often at the edge of economic and cultural viab…
"Although [Steve] Paxton is credited with inventing, or initiating CI, it was Stark Smith who became the chief educator and organizer. … Whether springing up out of the floor or boomerangi…
That's what happened in the depression. "What prompted this public investment in higher education was neither sentimentality about the poor nor a noblesse oblige of good works. It was a visi…
Years of preparation " conservation, research and catalog writing, loan negotiations, insurance, shipping arrangements, and more " went into the big Van Eyck show that opened in February in …
