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And everything else about our location, as well; you can download huge files of randomized info about the entire US, if you'd like. "If you're wondering whether data from your phone is inclu…
The writers scrambled to end the last episode on a cliffhangar from footage they'd already shot. This is a first: "Neither military dictatorship nor the Rio Olympics halted production of Bra…
Now is truly a time when the world could use an update to the beloved C.S. Lewis series. But only 75 copies of the sequel, written by a Narnia lover and scholar, exist. "It may never be conv…
Margalit Fox: "Beard, a New York photographer, artist and naturalist to whom the word 'wild' was roundly applied, both for his death-defying photographs of African wildlife and for his own m…
Hepworth has, for decades, been thought of as a cold and uncaring parent who sent her triplets away when they were four months old so she could get some work done. Surprise: The letters tell…
Before Twitter, before 24-hour cable news, before instantaneous visual information flooding our lives, there was the poster. "Produced and displayed on a massive scale, these posters used a …
Shooting may not resume until at least August for most productions " or it may be far later " but while most everyone in cast, crew, and production teams are out of work, some are franticall…
Zadie Smith, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, Marilynne Robinson, Tayari Jones, and many more winners of what used to be the Orange Prize explain what it does. Ann Patchett: "Even now, I'll be dust…
Hazama, in this podcast: "My main study back in Japan was to be a film composer. But at the time, computer was taking over the entire industry. My thing was to write for acoustic musicians, …
After the Italian shutdown, Marchini immediately "went viral" (but in a good, pre-Covid-19 way) when he performed from his balcony on March 13. He didn't even know it because, he says, "I'm …
Contemplating Giotto as the virus closes in, the author says, "Assisi is a city where religious pilgrims come to pray, study, and convene. Before the virus, nuns, priests, monks, and friers …
What started as a jokey way to help fellow cast members share dance moves turned into an emotionally moving performance with 44 different cast members dancing everywhere " alone with masks o…
Are blockbusters over? Can galleries survive, and, if they do, will they be more important than museums? And can art-world social media come back from the thirsty ferret tweet? " The Guardia…
In order to divert those of you who, like me, are staying home these days, I've been posting images of some of the prints and paintings that hang on the walls of the Manhattan apartment that…
Kim Stanley, Geraldine Page, and Sandy Dennis co-star in a 1966 Actors Studio film version of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters directed by Paul Bogart:
(This is the latest in a series of…
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
W.H. Auden, "Notes on the Comic"
Continue reading Almana…
Of course, streaming services are dominating at the moment for whenever the industry can start shooting again. "The market is active enough that even companies with stacked-up development sl…
Bailey, who taught at the Yale School of Art for decades, created "pristine, idealized still lifes and female nudes [that] made him one of the leading figures in the return of figurative art…
As they fight viral virus misinformation, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others are making some choices that, while they may be good for public health in the short term, have some First Amen…
Greenwell, the author of What Belongs to You and Cleanness, compares his new book to Schubert's Winterreise and says, "It's not that I think writing sex explicitly is in and of itself intere…
Turns out that many actors, writers, and producers were already in theatre " and that balancing the arts and sciences came naturally. Now that it's all science, and all terrifying, they're s…
The Tesla Quartet, founded in 2008, was doing OK, even well, at last. "The four players, aged 34 to 38, have long relied on relatives, friends and concert presenters for temporary housing, w…
It's going to be quite some time. Why? "'New York and Los Angeles are going to take a lot more time [to reopen] than Montana,' predicts Jeff Bock, a box office analyst with Exhibitor Relatio…
The tapestry, which depicts in 100 medieval panels the Book of Revelations, is a vivid glimpse into how people lived through plague and war. And: "It is remarkable that the tapestry still ex…
The hosts of the podcast Were You Raised by Wolves? used to answer questions about the etiquette of using your cell phone flashlight to read restaurant menus. Then things they answered at th…
