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English National Opera is planning to stage two classics on the grounds of the Alexandra Palace in North London, with singers and orchestral players spaced at least six feet apart and the au…
Saturday afternoon's At-Home Gala, the brainchild of Met general manager Peter Gelb, will have opera stars performing live on the Web from wherever they're waiting out the COVID lockdown. Wh…
The logic of private interest " the notion that we should just 'let the market handle it' " has serious limitations. Particularly in the United States, the lack of an effective health and so…
"With no clear indication when the theater might be deemed safe to reopen, [managing director Amy] Wratchford and her remaining team (all on half or quarter salary) have written contingency …
In 1769, amateur historian James Granger published the Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution. It was an interactive book, aimed at collectors of printed im…
As general director from 1985 to 1993, he, along with director of productions David Pountney and chief conductor Mark Elder, "fostered a production style based on radical, dynamic dramaturgy…
"The robber, who arrived to the [Singer Laren] museum [near Amsterdam] on a motorcycle, broke in by smashing reinforced glass doors with a sledgehammer. Leaving the scene, the thief took Van…
A three-judge panel from the 6th Circuit ruled 2-to-1 that "education " at least in the minimum form discussed here " is essential to nearly every interaction between a citizen and her gover…
The Democratic National Committee staffer was shot during a mugging in the summer of 2016, but a conspiracy theory, developed in right-wing circles and repeated on Fox News, claimed that Ric…
"They don't want to be lumped in with meatpacking plants and senior centers as hot spots for the virus. Already struggling financially, theaters fear that a too-soon return could stigmatize …
In today's Wall Street Journal drama column I review a webcast of the Goodman Theatre's Chicago premiere of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play. (In addition, the column ends with …
A Visit to CBS Color Television, an extremely rare film of a demonstration of early color television that was produced by CBS in 1954 for its affiliates and sponsors prior to the introduc…
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Continue reading Almanac: Oscar Wilde on sorrow at About Last Night.
The three-minute video for the band Thou & the Get's single "Phenom" is a kaleidoscope of ordinary images whose rhythm and hostility bust the limits of Zoom. The video speaks to the lock…
"More than just the organizational and financial genius of the enterprise, Mrs. Wyeth also had a firm hand in guiding her husband's artistic development. … Later she came up with the idea …
"When a face looks back at us in the real world, that means something very deep: we have to choose how to respond " because they can see us. So we manifest a facial expression, or talk back,…
As the speeches are performed by a succession of people in the videos, it feels "as if they are in conversation even though they are in different parts of the world" said Terry. The three sp…
"For the most part, the Oral History of American Music, known as OHAM, has focused not on insurance salesmen or barbers, but has instead gone straight to the source: living American composer…
Salary and benefits constitute more than 65% of the Met's annual budget. In addition to the layoffs, the museum announced today, April 22, that its top executives will be taking salary reduc…
A 2016 survey of top AI researchers found that, on average, they thought there was a 50 percent chance that AI systems would be able to "accomplish every task better and more cheaply than hu…
Sure, the machers of the banking industry have deep roots in the art market"the Medicis fueled the Renaissance, the bankers of the East India Company let Rembrandt put up his paintings as lo…
It was an 18-second video called "Meet Me At The Zoo" and it's been seen 90 million times. " CNN
"Its vast army of 1,800 artists relies on international travel to get from show to show, regularly crossing borders, performing on cruise ships, and interacting with fans. Daily training reg…
"It will be a while before we can accurately assess whether jazz indeed has suffered more losses, proportionately, than other art forms. Yet the tragedy of so many major figures dying of the…
Shortly after the pianist abandoned live performance for good, he started making nonfiction radio programs for the CBC, the best-known of which are called the "Solitude Trilogy": The Idea of…
