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
Sebastian Barry goes for the real classics: "It seems uncanny that there is a radiant book for these times, although it was written 2,000 years ago." " The Guardian (UK)
Bosworth, who was part of the Actors Studio with Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroes, gave up acting to write instead " and write she did, about Diane Arbus, Jane Fonda, Montgomery Clift, Marl…
Why not? It's National Poetry Month, after all, and poems can refocus the mind, bringing it gently back to focus. You might even try memorizing a poem or two. " The Atlantic
But this year, another plague broke the record. "This year's Passion Play, scheduled to premiere in May and run through the summer, had to be abandoned because of the coronavirus. An epic…
That's right, it's not a portrait: It's a doortrait. " The Guardian (UK)
"You're a pony; you're a firecracker; you're a shape-shifter; you're using your bookshelf as a stabilizer for butt wiggling. Given humanity's terminal uncertainty now, I feel particularly ma…
Why? "He recommends everyone drawing with open eyes. 'I would suggest they really look hard at something and think about what they are really seeing.'" " The Guardian (UK)
How can a film like Never Rarely Sometimes Always get an audience in the age of social distancing and sheltering in place? Well, contemporary events might actually help. "Given that multiple…
One Met Opera dancer said that his counterparts in other cities should "get to know your rights under the newly passed Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (known as the CARES A…
The dancers, especially the freelancers, are facing terrible losses of income and camaraderie, not to mention fitness opportunities. "Self-training isn't anything new to dancers, but in the …
Burmann, who died of renal failure after testing positive for COVID-19, was "a revered ballet master and teacher who trained generations of dancers, including Alessandra Ferri, Julio Bocc…
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, now dec…
George Balanchine and Suzanne Farrell dance the "vision scene" from Balanchine's Don Quixote, choreographed in 1965. The score is by Nicolas Nabokov: (This is the latest in a series of a…
"Such is the life of man. A few joys, quickly obliterated by unforgettable sorrows. "There is no need to tell the children so." Marcel Pagnol, In My Mother's Castle (courtesy of Bruce Baw…
Via this year's deeply reimagined Sydney Biennale, now called NIRIN: "The impact of COVID-19 is both a significant challenge and a threshold for new beginnings. An international art world th…
The founder of Opera Povera posted the idea to perform an Oliveros opera, and the opera world responded quickly and in numbers. The plan for the participant opera and fundraiser for musician…
McKinnell was a 26-year-old graduate student and a teaching assistant for architect Gerhard Kallmann when the city hall competition arose. Their "heroically sculptural and democratically ope…
The author is on her 111th novel " she long ago stopped buying her signature chunky silver rings for each book " and this one might be her most personal. "Wilson is the fairy goth-mother of …
What a music critic who lives close to a major hospital hears in, and beyond, the now-constant sirens. "Most American ambulances contain an 'electronic box in each vehicle, which comes prelo…
Tens of thousands of Hollywood and theatre workers are out of work right now. But they've found a rallying cause: "With no end in sight to the crisis, costumers " whose job is to create and …
Sure, Shakespeare and the Bible outsell Agatha Christie, but otherwise, she's the tops. "Agatha Christie's novels have sold more than one billion copies in the English language and another b…
The influence of Schnitzer " whose name is on the Oregon Symphony's hall " on the Portland and Pacific Northwest arts scene can hardly be overstated. "Schnitzer was a towering cultural figur…
Dance classes, "clubbing" from home, and other dance-related videos (and Instagram Stories, Zooms, etc.) are keeping loneliness at bay as nearly everyone has orders to shelter in place. Some…