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Folium, an ink with hues ranging from blue to purple that was used extensively to illuminate manuscripts, was derived from the small fruits of an unassuming weed native to southern Portugal.…
"Abigail Disney, an Emmy award-winning film-maker and a granddaughter of the company's co-founder Roy Disney, launched a Twitter tirade against the world's biggest entertainment group … fo…
Seriously? But Merce is hard. "And yet, this is what Patricia Lent, the director of licensing at the Cunningham Trust, is proposing. In a new online series, she has been systematically break…
"Attempts to remove books from libraries across the US rose almost a fifth last year, with children's books featuring LGBTQ characters making up 80% of the most challenged books," according …
Just a couple of months ago, there were articles suggesting that the streaming service may have tapped out its pool of potential customers. But, as with most things on Earth, everything chan…
"Roberto Cicutto, president of the Venice Biennale, which oversees the film festival, confirmed it would go ahead on 2 September as planned. Meanwhile, the Biennale's theatre and dance festi…
The once-mighty, now-struggling comedy improv institution is giving up the leases to both its theater and its training center on Manhattan's West Side. Nothing about the company's Los Angele…
"Sound like quackery? It's not. Numerous studies … have found that both performing and listening to music can have a significant impact on the immune system" " including one review that fo…
Vladimir Horowitz plays Scarlatti's E Major Sonata, K. 380, at Carnegie Hall in 1968. The video is from a concert telecast by CBS. The audio has been synchronized from a high-quality audio r…
"He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results."
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Continue reading Almanac: Somerset Maugham on heroism at A…
How often can you say that the Metropolitan Opera rocks? That happens in much of this new recording, taken from live performances of the Met's hit production. But the price of capturing that…
EduHam was born as an offshoot of "Hamilton" itself, and Lin Manuel Miranda says the project " in which 250,000 students nationwide have participated " has proved to be a hit as much with ca…
When it comes to live music streaming, and in particular, the capacity to play together real time over the internet, the technology could be said to be in a nascent state " still very much u…
ABT polled the dancers to find out how many would be interested. Then they placed a single order for 68 pieces, paid for it all and shipped them out to company members isolating everywhere f…
The very features that make New York attractive to businesses, workers and tourists " Broadway, the subway system, world-class restaurants and innumerable cultural institutions " were among …
People are consuming more news than usual. Monthly readership of NPR's website has more than doubled and average weekly streaming of its radio shows has gone up 31 percent since the crisis b…
Critic Ben Read went looking for the source of the bizarre allegations that have had the right-wing internet in a lather for a few weeks. He found a 77-minute YouTube video about a pair of f…
A quarter of the respondents, nine of 35, said they are facing the permanent closure of their spaces in 2020 if the situation doesn't improve quickly. An additional five galleries, or 14%, s…
David Patrick Stearns: "The carefully-curated public images of the past … have, ironically, faded away in this era of social distancing. Any exterior glamour that creates psychological dis…
The situation into which almost every parent in America has now suddenly and unwillingly been thrust could not be more different. One-size-fits-all education barely works in a classroom, but…
Now facing an immense shortfall in tax revenue"about $7.4 billion"the city has proposed a revised budget for the next fiscal year that would reduce the overall budget by $3.4 billion, compar…
The Director of SCPA will serve as a central collaborator and consensus-builder inside and outside SCPA.
The demonization of density harkens to the heyday of urbanization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. American civic leaders and reformers of the time embraced the notion that urban s…
Helen Shaw: "After five weeks of valiant internet productions that looked a lot like readings (even when they weren't), Buyer & Cellar" " with Michael Urie, live from his living room, hi…
Born into considerable wealth and privilege in New York, Beard, whose body was found yesterday in woodland in the East Hamptons, was a photographer whose love for the African wilderness and …
