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Online platforms are not equally useful, and the class options are dizzying, especially when the "I don't want to humiliate myself" barrier is gone. (Who's looking?!) " Dance Enthusiast
Movie theaters in Norway will reopen on May 7 with a mandatory minimum of one meter of space between each audience member and no more than 50 patrons total in any one space. (These rules fol…
Street artists get their juice from the urban landscape. But performers don't have crowds to perform for. And while street painters have plenty of urban canvas, there's not many out to see i…
"The primary lesson of plague literature, from Thucydides onwards, is how predictably humans respond to such crises. Over millennia, there has been a consistent pattern to behaviour during e…
The coin shows an artist's rendering of the coronavirus overlaid on a world map, and reads (with characteristically Trumpian capitalization), "World vs Virus: We Fought the Unseen Enemy. …
"The performers … feel abandoned by the Met. … The sense of drift has been compounded by what musicians call a lack of communication and leadership from the Met's management. Music direc…
"Since its release in 2017, TikTok has become a wildly popular global platform for dance, especially among teens, with tools that make it easy to film yourself dancing to music, integrate sp…
While much of the future is uncertain, one thing is clear: The industry will be gutted without major federal help. Arts nonprofits have already suffered $4.5 billion in losses as a result of…
"In 1967,[he] wrote a lasting page in art history when, as a 27-year-old curator in Genoa, he mounted an exhibition of five young Italian artists making provisional assemblages of humble mat…
The offerings, open only to subscribers, include a "virtual reading" of a new adaptation of Chekhov's Seagull (available May 14-27); a radio-play version of Arthur Miller's The American Cloc…
"The Forbidden City, past home to China's emperors, is allowing just 5,000 visitors daily, down from 80,000. And parks are allowing people to visit at 30% of the usual capacity. … Large-sc…
"Facing his own burgeoning budget problems, Gov. Tom Wolf has directed some state agencies to rescind grant money previously awarded to arts groups. The decision surfaced Monday when numerou…
When I visited dish-besotted Bill Stern in his apartment in Los Angeles, we would make tea for breakfast in a gray pot designed in the 1960s by Edith Heath. At some aha moment, Bill decided …
He was a renowned expert on American Impressionism and 19th-century American still-life painting as well as author of more than 20 books on American art, notably his three-volume Art Across …
My beloved Hilary died a month ago tonight. I could not begin to thank enough people for saving my life, which is what all of you did by reaching out to me, generously and unhesitatingly. " …
Given the scale of the national crisis facing all sectors of the economy in the months and years to come, the pandemic is a historic disruption that represents an existential crisis. What to…
Kate Craddock, founder and director of the Gateshead International Festival of Theatre in northeastern England, "is keen to point out this isn't just about taking a stash of pre-recorded wor…
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column, I review a webcast production of The Diary of Anne Frank from St. Paul, Minnesota. Here's an excerpt.
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Why can't theater compa…
My beloved Hilary died a month ago tonight. I returned home from the hospital to the enforced solitude of life in latter-day Manhattan"she was the last person whom I have touched"and I've be…
Nat King Cole and His Trio perform "Little Girl." Cole is accompanied by Irving Ashby on guitar, Joe Comfort on bass, and Jack Costanzo on bongo drums. This performance, which dates from 195…
"There are no heroes of action"only heroes of renunciation and suffering. Of these there are plenty. But few of them are known, and even they not to the crowd, but to the few."
Albert Schwei…
You can see this as nothing but loss. Or perhaps some of our most intractable debates are now suddenly shaken free of their old moorings.
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More than 50% of malls anchored by department stores could close permanently by the end of 2021. Of the roughly 1,000 malls still in operation throughout the U.S., 60% are anchored by depart…
"We are the literary magazine for Taco Bell literature. I also say celebrating the Taco Bell arts and letters. We're not a gimmick, we're not a viral sensation. We are real fiction, real ess…
The LA Times looks at what a new Hollywood might look like when it reopens. On the table: everything. How movies are shot, how they open in theatres (if they do), what movie theatres might l…
