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Museums are silent, and the Tate Modern's 20th anniversary celebration has gone mute. But the small galleries and artists of Britain are in much more dire circumstances. Says one close obser…
Even before COVID-19 shut down production completely, three historic companies were in trouble " deep in debt to creditors, troubled by streaming, etc. Then seven feature films in Paris alon…
Sure, they're still as quirky and gap-filling as ever, except for one rather large problem. WFMU Jersey City's station manager: "This is the situation that so many broadcasters dream of! ……
Even as government officials seemed a bit cavalier about it all " talking about herd immunity, for instance " people sensed that a shutdown was coming. "Sales of fiction rose by a third, whi…
A lesson in not making desperate promises, perhaps: "When Derek Fordjour was a little-known art student at Hunter College, before Michael Ovitz and Beyoncé began collecting his work, …
Sixty singers showed up in early March for a 2.5-hour choir practice. Now, three weeks later, "45 have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or ill with the symptoms, at least three have been hospita…
Think about the doge meme, for instance. "This meme is iconic, woah heritage, such icon." (But for real: Memes show the power of photography and creativity, and the top memes deserve to be a…
Matthew Walther: "If it is worth bailing out restaurants and bars and other places where people congregate together for merriment and diversion, we must not neglect those institutions in whi…
The Singer Laren museum, just outside the Dutch capital city of Amsterdam, said van Gogh's "The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring" was stolen in an overnight raid. The painting " created …
Thursday's settlement deal in a case brought by a onetime Philadelphia area saxophonist against a $2 billion musicians' pension fund shows that the trustees who ratify advisers' and outside …
Film at Lincoln Center announced massive internal upheaval on Friday. A longtime hub of film culture in New York City with an influential reach around the country, the organization furloughe…
Schantz, 51, currently the executive vice president and chief operating officer at the New-York Historical Society, will take up the position in May. She succeeds Jacqueline Davis, who has l…
It would be easy to dismiss the rise of "social distance socializing" as a product of pure necessity, a stopgap until we are, hopefully, able to safely congregate in person again. But these …
Sure, everything's online now, but some comedians have been doing the work for a much longer time than the last two weeks. They didn't need to adjust "because they were already there, partic…
Ton Koopman plays Bach's Chorale Prelude "Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele," BWV 654:Â
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Mon…
AD Eric Ting: "This may seem like an extraordinary decision, but taking into account the incredible uncertainty of this moment, the cost of producing a season at the Bruns, of which ticket s…
"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."
E.M. Forster, "The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy"
Continue reading Almanac: E.M. Forster on courage at About Last Night.
The Yale School of Art, NYU's Tisch School, and many other art schools are witnessing students demand partial refunds for the rest of the semester since they can't access anything they need.…
Blum, a consummate theatre professional who played many roles on stage and screen, including Union Bob on Amazon Prime's Mozart in the Jungle, has died of complications from the coronavirus.…
Some of the still laid-off Powell's staff are unhappy with the way the company has handled the store closures and layoffs, but for others, the present is a little rosier. CEO Emily Powell wr…
Penderecki, composer of the scores for The Exorcist, The Shining, and Wild at Heart, also wrote operas and choral works, and won multiple Grammys. "Penderecki's stated aim as an avant-gar…
That's right, Camus' The Plague is leading a wave of "pestilence fiction." Get this: "The British publisher of The Plague, Penguin Classics, says it is struggling to keep up with orders.�…
Since many of us are having to use Zoom for work and choosing to use it for seeing family and friends, that's a good change. And we'll take good news right now, honestly. " Vice
For actors, writers, directors, and all of the many, many thousands of craft workers, there's a little help: "The act includes a provision known as Pandemic Unemployment Assistance that exte…
The classical music critic got to watch a rapper marched offstage after verbally assaulting a host and throwing a drink at the crowd. She said, "I was surprised he had his shirt off and trou…
