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He first attracted notice for shooting supermodels in famous ad campaigns for the likes of Estée Lauder; his fame grew with a photo series of famous actors, each in an enormous black turtle…
"Projecting a shortfall in revenue of at least $7 million by the end of this fiscal year, New York City's Whitney Museum has laid off 76 staff members. In an email sent Thursday afternoon, m…
Before embarking on a conducting career in 2013, the 38-year-old American performed as a violinist in solo and chamber works as well as in the Berlin Philharmonic's Academy Orchestra and the…
"He played the laconic rancher with no name on the revolutionary NBC series. Among Westerns, only Gunsmoke and Bonanza lasted longer." " The Hollywood Reporter
Just short of a month after the Salzburg Easter Festival was called off because of the pandemic, the Salzburg Whitsun Festival, directed by mezzo Cecilia Bartoli and scheduled for May 20-Jun…
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Each day is, of course, its own challenge, and I'm sure that I'll forget to be grateful for all my good fortune at some particularly exasperating point in the week to come. But th…
"Fortune is the least capricious of deities, and arranges things on the just and rigid system that no one shall be very happy for very long."
Evelyn Waugh, Labels (courtesy of Richard Zue…
A few days after my beloved Hilary received her double-lung transplant, I published an open letter in The Wall Street Journal addressed to the family of the anonymous organ donor whose lungs…
This is, first of all, an expression of profound gratitude for the innumerable messages of sympathy I have received. I thought you might like to read about Hilary's last good day. " Terry Te…
These past few weeks, a whole world of arts organizations have been searching for, revisiting, or assembling-on-the-fly their emergency readiness plans as the pandemic turns that world upsid…
The Canadian drummer's new album manages to meld elements of contemporary electronica with references to developments in the six decades since John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman turned the mu…
Jerry Saltz: "Even an art-lover lifer like me has to admit much of the art world infrastructure feels like it's already in the balance. Some of it may be gone even now. In three months, or s…
Essentially, it's a site that recommends the very best and most relevant books, podcasts, scientific articles, videos and journalism to anyone who wants a better understanding of the world. …
In 1895 Ladies' Home Journal began to offer unfrilly, family-friendly architectural plans in its pages. They were mainly colonial, Craftsman, or modern ranch-style houses, and many still sta…
Many of you have been asking if there are plans for a funeral or memorial service for Hilary Teachout, my beloved wife, who died peacefully on Tuesday night after we spent our last good day …
Live events and entertainment are people-based businesses that rely on the creation of emotional experiences and human interactions. Shedding too many employees, or the wrong employees, may …
As the undemocratic features of the Orbán regime became increasingly obvious, the cunning liberal directors would choose productions that, with even minimum sensibility, could be interpre…
In the age of GPS, we tend to take our navigation and spatial abilities for granted, until they " or the technology " let us down. It is easy to forget that they have sustained us for tens o…
The fact that all 28 Van Gogh paintings, from six separate thefts, were eventually recovered should offer hope that The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring will eventually return to its hom…
The absence rate appears particularly high in schools with many low-income students, whose access to home computers and internet connections can be spotty. Some teachers report that less tha…
The writer prompted the National Arts Center of Canada to launch virtual book tours for authors with new books out during the pandemic shutdown. Authors are "'really pinched,' Atwood said in…
As we are seeing with the coronavirus today, disease can profoundly impact a community"upending routines and rattling nerves as it spreads from person to person. But the effects of epidemics…
Whenever that is, of course. Some movie theatre owners expect that they will: "We strongly believe there will be a rush to cinemas to see all kinds of movies because people will just want to…
Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven was much recommended in the coronavirus' early days " but even she thought people shouldn't be reading it right now. Her new novel is about the 2008 cr…
And now it wants to win over its critics by being honest about how many of its artifacts had tainted histories " or were entirely fake. " The New York Times
