Facing serious criticism for the furloughs " one congressman introduced a bill to rescind the $25 million, saying "if an organization is receiving assistance from the federal government, we …
"Players voted last week to approve an across-the-board 20% reduction in compensation starting April 1 and lasting through the middle of September. ​Pay cuts have also been instituted…
Alexis Soloski: "You could fill a shelf with plays of the past several decades that have dreamed bleak outcomes for humanity. And then, in a pinch, you could burn that shelf and those plays …
"In a survey of 1,000 consumers in the U.S., 44% of respondents said they would attend fewer large public events, even once they are cleared by the CDC, with 38% saying they'd attend about t…
"In this time of confinement, we have been given one immeasurable gift " the freedom to go outside. In exchange, we must abide by a simple rule: Stay six feet away from others. As choreograp…
"The French tourist, who was visiting London with his parents, was pushed from the gallery's 10th floor viewing platform by a teenager with a history of mental health problems. … The boy h…
Aretha Franklin sings "Skylark," by Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer, on The New Steve Allen Show. This episode was originally taped on May 19, 1964, for syndicated telecast: (This …
"Of course I knew I could rely on your sympathy. I am reconciled by the certainty that a continuance of life would have meant only a continuance of pain and suffering of which my wife had ha…
The "Mrs. T" of this blog suffered throughout our years together from pulmonary hypertension, a rare and devastating illness that gnawed inexorably at her body without touching her soul. She…
The Amazon delivery guy rang the bell, then scampered off to safety behind the garden gate, a good distance, but not so far that he couldn't hear and acknowledge my "thank you." " Paul Levy
Out in the woods for today's video, on Charles Lindblom's classic essay "The science of 'muddling through'". When an arts organization sets out to form a strategic plan, what exactly is it d…
We do not yet know what effect the current pandemic will have on worldwide demographics. But it is actually slightly more likely to increase future populations than decrease them. If the act…
In addition to calling off all events in the June 24-August 30 festival, Jacob's Pillow administration is making staffing and salary cuts. However, said director Pamela Tatge, "[if] people a…
Hilary Dyson Teachout, the "Mrs. T" of this blog, suffered throughout the decade and a half of our life together from pulmonary hypertension, a rare and devastating illness that gnawed inexo…
When libraries closed their doors abruptly, they immediately opened their digital communications, collaborations, and creative activity to reach their public in ways as novel as the virus th…
It is increasingly common for people to buy art, like everything else, online. So online presence is obviously vital. Perhaps the Covid-19 emergency, while directing attention onto the virtu…
In-person performances have been replaced by a deluge of digital ones " live streams and recently unlocked archive recordings " that have made for a calendar hardly less busy than before con…
The description of a house can vividly reveal the experience of childhood or the story of a relationship: "How a house is lived in can tell you everything you need to know about people, whet…
Increasingly, loss of the sense of smell is being treated as a serious harm in clinical settings. Besides, the sense of smell is key to flavour perception. Indeed, most of what you perceive …
Alex Greenberger: "[There's] a difference between Hopper's forlorn subjects and so many of us right now. They choose to live in modernity and find themselves alienated because of it. We choo…
Jonathan Jones: "If [the widely-shared tweet is true], a crisis of loneliness is impending that may be one of the most fraught social consequences of COVID-19. The loss of direct human conta…
Although Tom Ajamie's amfAR investigation never received the same level of attention as Weinstein's sexual predation, it remains the key event that led to his downfall. After all, it was dur…
"Ars Nova did not seek an article about the course it has chosen. On the contrary, [its directors] worried that discussing it publicly could look like they were shaming colleagues amid an in…
So far, the best Indigenous-authored texts about Indigenous art are not reviews but catalogue and academic-essays, which are critical in that they explicate the context, intent and meanings …
Sharon Stern was a vivacious, popular, hard-working actor when she enrolled in the MFA program at America's first Buddhist university. There she met Butoh master Katsura Kan and became his f…