"The novelist is to be a guest on Mary Beard's BBC Two arts show Front Row Late, hosted in lockdown from the study in Beard's house. Atwood's contribution is what Beard calls a 'very surpris…
A musicologist named Remo Giazotto wrote a monograph on Albinoni in which he claimed to have discovered manuscript fragments by the Venetian Baroque composer, fragments from which he reconst…
The ruling, which could make a difference for websites that use material originally posted on social media such as Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, sidesteps what has been called "the server…
"[The VSO's president and board chair] said Wednesday the orchestra now expects to meet the goal of maintaining employment for musicians and staff to the end of the 2019-20 season in June." …
Responding to "troubling reports" of some theaters' plans, the union's executive director said, "Any employer who wants to begin theatrical productions needs to have a comprehensive plan in …
"Self-trust is the essence of heroism." Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Heroism" Continue reading Almanac: Ralph Waldo Emerson on heroism at About Last Night.
On a hilltop miles away from the city I love, I've decided to look at Paul Taylor & Company " An Artist and his Work, a 1968 film directed by Ted Steeg. 1968! My choice was partly person…
Using aspects of phrasing, rhythm and tonal quality adapted from the great Lester Young, Konitz in the 1940s developed into one of the most distinctive saxophonists in jazz. " Doug Ramsey
To help artists who, because of the coronavirus havoc, are finding it ever harder to stay afloat, the painter Makoto Fujimura and his International Arts Movement have launched the Hilary Tea…
Social media influencers have had increasing… er… influence in recent years for their ability to get advertising messages out to their followers. But the COVID lockdown has crashed the m…
"People are suspended between terror and wonder. They're terrified that this is all so fragile, but they also realize there are things we have been missing " the birdsong everyone is noticin…
The dictionary's executive editor Bernadette Paton said that it was "a rare experience for lexicographers to observe an exponential rise in usage of a single word in a very short period of t…
Fear of and distancing from those who have or are suspected of having the virus counts as a similarity, the key difference being how AIDS became linked to identity . "In the early days of AI…
The circulation of a billion Indians has not settled into the neat grid of social distance. On my phone, I see looming disaster. And yet, looking up, I see something else"a glimpse, behind t…
One major takeaway: Most theatregoers will not immediately be ready to return to theatres even when they reopen. The survey found that around half (49 percent) of those questioned say they w…
"What is a choreographer without a stage but a sad clown of God at a time like this? So Morris has retooled himself as a filmmaker. … There is a certain hallucinatory, Fellini-esque qualit…
"Is dystopian fiction likely to affect anyone's real-world political attitudes? If so, then how? And how much should we care about its impact? In our research, we set out to answer these que…
The manufacturer of Humvees, AM General, sued the game developer, alleging that the appearance of the trucks in Call of Duty "deceived [players] into believing that AM General licenses the g…
Germany has a low infection rate, but additionally the city has efficiently tried to help its residents: "Fortunately, last week more than $1.4 billion was already doled out in Berlin to mor…
However difficult things may be once the coronavirus is under control, they likely won't be as bad as in Germany just after World War II. Cologne Cathedral had been hit 14 times by Allied bo…
There's of course the simple dictionary definition, but as a label for a political ideology its meaning is fuzzy. " Dissent
"Theatre finance departments have been in an all-hands-on-deck mode as they gather payroll reports and compile the information needed for [CARES Act aid] applications. It's been a round-the-…
There's a lot more money in pro sports, and athletes have benefited from psychologists who teach them how to turn in their best on demand. So it makes sense that the sports doctors are worki…
"The exact scope and nature of Germany's contribution will be determined in the coming months on the basis of studies on the ground, [a] statement said, adding that three glass workshops at …
In an extensive Q&A, Bolshoi general director Vladimir Urin talks about how the dancers, singers and instrumentalists are and aren't continuing to get paid, how everyone is trying to sta…