"In this country we don't have national infrastructure that supports individual artists the way that would be effective in a crisis." said Laura Zabel. "That said, every disaster is local," …
"While non-essential workers are still housebound, pictures from around the world show surreal scenes of Tyvek suit-wearing workers spraying down eerily empty spaces like Hagia Sophia in Ist…
Andras Szanto: "Museums could offer people who have experienced weeks of isolation a safe place to go, or a reprieve from cramped quarters. Their opening would signal the beginnings of a ret…
The giant annual alterna-conclave doesn't take place until the end of August, but even so, "the organizers of Burning Man announced on Friday that they will not be assembling 80,000 people i…
"The 'At Home Gala' the company is planning for Saturday, April 25, … will feature more than 40 artists, including stars like Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann and Renée Fleming, performing f…
"High-profile booksellers seeking recourse have flocked to the platform. … Yet a number of the stores that were among the first to launch successful campaigns in the wake of the novel coro…
"The 1.7 million figure that [CEO Meg] Whitman cited does not indicate how many people signed up for the app, which is offering an extended 90-day free trial. Once the trial ends, Quibi … …
Organizers called off the festival, scheduled for July 3-23, within minutes of an announcement by France's President Macron that, because of the COVID epidemic, it would be unsafe to hold ma…
A benefit concert from last November, in which 79 stage performers did songs from Disney musicals, was going to be streamed online to benefit the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS COVID-19 E…
"The striking scene included messages of thanks in many languages, along with images of nurses and doctors smiling in protective gear. The word 'hope' was also projected onto the statue, alo…
From 2010: A friend on the West Coast sent me an e-mail the other day that ended, "Give me a call. We never talk." When I read this, it struck me that the only people I call simply to talk n…
"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life"to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to ea…
I've been skimming through a complete collection of Chekhov's stories. There's lotsa chaff " small anecdotes published in newspapers from early days that don't do much and weren't intended f…
If you've already seen the Max-&-Dan video that the Met posted today to mark this unexpectedly somber occasion, you may have wondered about the identity of the head peering over Director…
"My feeling is truly we are in the midst of a new era trying to be reborn," he said, reached by phone in Culver City. "And, yes, the labor pains are fierce." " Los Angeles Times
We're using cities differently while we're under lockdown, but urbanists see this as an opportunity to maybe challenge the ways we have constructed and use urban areas. Cars, for example " d…
The show is a Disney concert from last year that producers want to use to raise money for COVID relief. All the unions had agreed except for the musicians union. "As musicians we have lost t…
"Pandemics, wars, and other social crises often create new attitudes, needs, and behaviors, which need to be managed. We believe imagination " the capacity to create, evolve, and exploit men…
It has become a cesspool for scammers and con artists and crackpots of every kind. Worse, it even helps promote racist supremacist views. What can be done? " ProPublica
So how do you dance with others when you have to keep your distance? Online of course, and Dis-Dance parties allow you to dance together from the safety of your own room. " The News Hour (PB…
Most are shut down, though in places such as Albania and Sweden where museums remain open, they're seeing increases in visitors. Closed museums report an 80 percent loss of income. Many are …
"Even in good times, the humanistic academy is mocked as a wheel turning nothing; in an emergency, when doctors, delivery personnel, and other essential workers are scrambling to keep societ…
Stockholm's subway system is stocked: "Since construction began in 1950, some 250 artists have decorated 94 stations across 68 miles of track." " Wired
Suddenly, La Pedrera in Barcelona went from tens of thousands of visitors per day to … no one. Ana Viladomiu is one of the few people there. "Two other tenants remain in another part of th…
In 1987 Israeli science fiction writer Hamutal Shabtai wrote a book about a mysterious virus that engulfed the world in 2020. The scary part is that she got many of the details of what is no…