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According to a report by Le Parisien, two men face charges for allegedly attempting to steal various stones from the cathedral after the government ordered a pause on reconstruction so as to…
Two years ago this was a hot idea as a way of expanding the art market. You could own shares in works of art. But then bitcoin value cratered and things have stalled… " The Art Newspaper
Virginia Woolf insisted on the need for a room of one's own, but only the upper middle classes could have afforded one at the time. In the 19th century, only 1% of the British population liv…
"Advertising was like art, and more and more art was like advertising. Ideally, the only difference would be the logo. Advertising could take up the former causes of art"philosophy, beauty, …
Michael Kimmelman: "The coronavirus undermines our most basic ideas about community and, in particular, urban life. Historians tell us that cities emerged thousands of years ago for economic…
Helen Shaw: "To try to understand the complexity of a situation that was changing minute by minute " last Thursday, we still had a full theater calendar for April, for instance " I talked to…
Daydreaming is taken very seriously within scientific circles, where it is more accurately referred to as mind wandering. The level of interest in this area runs more or less parallel to tha…
"The justices unanimously upheld a lower court's 2018 ruling that the state was protected by a legal doctrine called sovereign immunity and could not be sued for copyright infringement for u…
"Last week's layoffs were just the latest addition to a list of controversial upheavals for the company in recent years, including climbing ticket prices in early 2017, the move from Chelsea…
"With its shows canceled until further notice and its revenue stream obliterated, Chicago's most illustrious comedy theater … is trying to improvise its way out of a major crisis. … [Job…
With little advance notice, the 84-year-old film-maker's book arrives at a time when much of the world is preoccupied with the coronavirus pandemic. Arcade is an imprint of Skyhorse Publishi…
"After the city sought to reintroduce normal activity, a wave of new coronavirus cases hit, largely due to returning travelers. The reversal offers a cautionary tale to countries around the …
Every performing arts group in the Bay Area contacted by The Chronicle has canceled its spring season, even as most had barely begun. Now a study reports that arts organizations stand to los…
"In the 30 years since founding the gallery in Soho in 1989, Kasmin developed a program that managed to toe the line between brainy and lighthearted by placing historic postwar artists like …
Dame Fanny says: "I had courage when people said, 'It won't work in Leeds'. Even my darling husband said that and I said 'I'll show you'. I rang up Marion and she said 'Let's try'. That was …
Yes, it's because of the coronavirus. "'Our artists, staff, directors and shareholders are devastated by this sad but inevitable turn of events,' says Hazard Chase managing director, James B…
"The Berlin Senate announced … that it would soon be offering €100 million ($107 million) in €5,000 ($5,366) grants to freelance workers and small businesses in the cultural se…
The move comes after an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by Scarlett, who had been artist-in-residence, with students at the Royal Ballet School. The company also said, in what s…
"The Montreal-based circus giant said temporarily cutting 4,679 jobs was necessary after 44 shows worldwide were shuttered amid the virus outbreak." " The Hollywood Reporter
"CEO Deborah Borda said that the orchestra has negotiated a new interim deal with its musicians: They will be paid in full until March 31, and then accept reduced pay for the next two months…
From 2010:
This meme, started by Tyler Cowen and picked up by, among others, Jenny Davidson and Ross Douthat, has piqued my interest. Here goes:
' W. Jackson Bate, Samuel John…
"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (courtesy of Anecdotal Evidence)
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Thanks to a kind-hearted, quick-witted nurse in New York-Presbyterian's cardio-thoracic ICU, I was able to see and speak to Mrs. T via Skype on Sunday night. " Terry Teachout
Concerned about the advance of the coronavirus, pianist Fred Hersch has announced his approach to providing, if not relief from the threat, a way to get it off your mind for a while: a live-…
Since most jazz musicians (and jazz journalists) are self-employed freelancers, it's probably essential to rely on ourselves and do it ourselves.. Adapting or heightening one's media game ma…
