"AMC Theatres " whose business has effectively shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic " looks increasingly likely to file for bankruptcy with its cash reserves dwindling, according to…
Says critic David Apatoff, "The parallel is very exact. Just like [Norman] Rockwell was the centerpiece of the Saturday Evening Post, Drucker did the same thing for Mad magazine with his par…
"Not only is A.I. a tool for artists, who are employing machine intelligence in fascinating ways, it is also frequently a topic to be examined " sometimes in the same piece. And underlying m…
Theresa Ruth Howard: "In 2018 I wrote an article about how Instagram was changing the value system of the dance world. It took to task the hyper-sexualization of the body's facility, the fet…
At the end of March, Gardners announced that it could not keep staffers at a safe distance from each other and still pack and send out books. Four days later, the company was back at work " …
"Christie's auction house has agreed to pay $16.7 million to the Manhattan District Attorney for failing to properly collect New York sales tax between 2013 and 2017. The bombshell settlemen…
"Arts and culture organizations across the country are estimated to have lost a combined $4.5 billion because of the health crisis so far, according to an ambitious new survey conducted by t…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the American Shakespeare Center's webcasts of Much Ado About Nothing and both parts of Henry IV. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * As America's t…
Some of Manie's Friends, an extremely rare kinescope of a televised tribute to Manie Sacks, the recording-company executive, hosted by Perry Como and originally broadcast by NBC on March 3, …
"There's nothing as safe as ignorance"or as dangerous." Rex Stout, "The Squirt and the Monkey" Continue reading Almanac: Rex Stout on ignorance at About Last Night.
The death of this funny, smart, idiosyncratic, unique music producer at age 64 saddens me. We were East Village neighbors in the go-go '90s, flush with ideas to try in the future. Here's my …
Hundreds of performances of Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 ("Death and the Maiden") have come my way over the decades, but none seized me from the very first notes like the new recording b…
Steadily, slowly, research interest in solitude has been increasing. Note, solitude " time alone " is not synonymous with loneliness, which is a subjective sense of unwanted social isolation…
There are valid reasons to look at historic crises as moments for dramatic urban change. Nineteenth-century pandemics helped usher in developments in water and sewage systems. And there can …
"No matter how much people enjoy looking at it, blue is a difficult color to harness from nature. … Plants seldom produce blue hues. When they do, their pigments rarely remain stable after…
It has been difficult at times, looking at the closed doors of theatres and remembering there are no productions to leave the house to go see or participate in. But if the last couple of wee…
What explains why the Philadelphia Orchestra's BeethovenNOW concert, with two full symphonies webcast from an empty Verizon Hall on March 12, is up to 771,000 YouTube views? Or why the Rotte…
The emergency package has an initial pot of $10 million for 2,000 grantees. The funds are culled from the operations budgets of the seven US-based organizations: Academy of American Poets, A…
The team, led by archeologist Pieter van Dalen, were caught digging at the Macatón cemetery in the town of Huaral during the state of emergency on Sunday, April 4. The group from the Univ…
"The company estimates that loss of the Met season, along with previously canceled tour performances " in Chicago, Detroit, Durham, N.C., and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates " will cos…
"Payroll reductions of 35% in the aggregate will include the layoffs of 94 part-time employees and pay cuts of more than 35% for the leadership team, the orchestra said. Orchestra members wi…
Two pots of hot tar took flame at an entrance to the old palace that's being rebuilt to house the ethnographic collections of Berlin's various museums. The incident sent black smoke through …
"A wide variety of non-profit organizations can apply for a share of the money, including 'arts organizations, local arts agencies, statewide assemblies of local arts agencies, arts service …
"Disney has taken an especially hard hit from the pandemic, with its theme parks shuttered, movies postponed and ESPN cable channel without live sports to televise. But the company on Wednes…
Iván Fischer, who founded the ensemble and led it to become one of the most admired in the world today, has been a vocal critic of the increasingly autocratic rule of Hungary's prime mini…