Mark Harris: "So forget the movies " he certainly has. What remains is the man, and on that score, Apropos of Nothing is one of the most unsettling accounts of a life I ever hope never to en…
The fundraiser got the anonymous donation, organized to help out struggling book sellers, after raising £100,000. Book shop owners are feeling a bit conflicted. " The Guardian
"Today, as the pandemic reshapes the ways we understand our work life and its meaning, Terkel's supermarket workers would be classified 'essential' to the smooth continuity of society. Yet t…
Earlier this week, Helen Shaw wrote that the Broadway.com stream of Jonathan Tolin's Buyer & Cellar was "the proof-of-concept for low-budget live-capture." So she talked to the people wh…
"In a long film, television and stage career [she] earned two Oscar nominations while still in her 20s, won a Tony Award in 1975 and later garnered three Emmy Awards." " The New York Times
As we know, American society and politics (especially in Congress) are very different in 2020 than they were in 1934. Even then, there was political opposition to the very idea of arts fundi…
In Germany, it's a state-by-state process: small museums in Brandenburg are reopening this week, with Thuringia next week, Saxony and Berlin in early May and the rest of the country followin…
What, the guy who wrote all those pops-concert pieces like The Typewriter, The Syncopated Clock, and Sleigh Ride? Yes, says Anthony Tommasini: "Bach provides solace, Beethoven stirs us with …
"With his fellow quartet members, he toured all over the world, specialising in works by Czech composers " many of them contemporary " and winning several prestigious prizes, including Diapa…
That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Alfred Tennyson, "Locksley Hall" Continue reading Almanac: Tennyson on sorrow at About Last Night.
Considering his long, illustrious career as an art scholar and museum director, not to mention his generosity in sharing his deep insights with others (including me), I'm puzzled as to why t…
Do you consider your organization's deepest responsibility to be to art or to people? I don't mean what is your mission. Rather, in extreme instances, what is most important? If many in your…
Movies depict phone calls, there are split screens, fast cuts, etc. There's already a rich visual language of remote interaction. So what can we learn? " Irish Times
Loans of online e-books, e-magazines and audiobooks were up an average of 63% in March compared with last year. And 120,000 people joined libraries in the three weeks after lockdown began, L…
Adrian Searle: "On the page, I am the mildest, most humane and dare I say sympathetic of writers, while the one who is doing the writing is an incoherent monster, if not an absolute swine. B…
In the 20th century, tuberculosis, typhoid, polio and Spanish flu breakouts prompted urban planning, slum clearance, tenement reform, waste management and, on a larger level, Modernism itsel…
Netflix added 15.8 million subscribers, more than double the 7.2 million that were expected " a growth of more than 22 percent year over year. Netflix now has 182 million subscribers worldwi…
Journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis looks into the young phenomenon's background and meteoric rise, teases out how he got to the point of selling artworks to several different clients at once,…
"How do we define community in a time of crisis, which is in many ways what community is for? We don't need our neighbors as much when we are healthy and wealthy and can pay for all the assi…
It's important to realise that the concern about beliefs being socially influenced is worrisome only if we're deliberating about whether to maintain belief from the perspective of doubt. " A…
Dwight Garner: "With so many hours to obliterate, I've found myself turning to the experts. I've pushed away the Tootsie Roll wrappers and empty root beer cans and gathered around my bed wha…
Coffee is sold less to provide an individual with pleasure than to support an industry with a skillfully primed audience. " The New Yorker
"Although its museums have been closed since February, commercial galleries were allowed to remain open. Several have done so, some throughout the crisis, putting South Korea alongside Taiwa…
One of the first things that struck Dvořák about Iowa was its emptiness. If he had come looking for the cheerfulness of home, what he found was this expanse of prairie, this sea of gr…
As experts in human-computer interaction point out, using Zoom means putting on a show for others without being able to rely on the cues we primates depend on in physical encounters. " Axios