Wilfred McClay: "I hear you, gentle reader, saying that surely I must be kidding. We need more profanity? Aren't we already being inundated with it? … And that's exactly the problem. Our c…
Enter the international Apostrophe Protection Society, with its attempts to call out misuse and spread good practice. But November 2019 saw the announcement of the society's demise, and owin…
Although the private sector brought electricity to the big cities"New York, Chicago, St. Louis"the federal government's Rural Electrification Administration brought electricity to much of Am…
Earlier this week, The Daily Telegraph reported that the incoming BBC director general planned to cancel left-leaning comedy shows because the broadcaster's comic programming was unfairly bi…
Some critics argue that a novel has to also be one narrative through and through, one long story about one person. A lot of ancient fiction, arguably, is too distractible and prone to side s…
"Whether the Juba or stepping, social dance has always been a big component of Ms. Brown's choreography. … When the pandemic hit, … like many other dancers and choreographers, she turned…
"I always tried to make the answer at least semi-coherent because it seemed a bit cheap to just toss a bunch of keywords into the input field," Paradiso said. "But if I was a bit lazier, I e…
"[Multiple announcements of closures] paint a picture of a dance landscape in crisis. Without dance studios, professionals lose their places to train or work out new art before it appears to…
Thanks, COVID: following similar decisions for Art Basel Hong Kong and the flagship fair in Switzerland, 2020 becomes the first year in decades without a single live Art Basel event. " ARTne…
Or, to put it more pessimistically/realistically, ticket sales have plummeted across the board in the US and UK, but the biggest drop has been in older audience members, according to the new…
In a ransomware attack in May on the computer security company Blackbaud, hackers copied names, contact info and donation summaries from the databases of the Smithsonian, Britain's National …
W. Russell Barry worked as president of 20th Century Fox Television, overseeing production and syndication, and spent two years at Playboy, where he launched the Playboy Channel, before head…
"Classical music has long been criticised for being overwhelmingly white, but the Southbank Centre said its first post-lockdown season in the Royal Festival Hall would feature works by 16 co…
The 2nd Bangkok Art Biennale won't be exactly what it was at its debut in 2018: there will be nine venues instead of 20, and organizers are having to look more to local audiences than to ove…
"Memory is, perhaps, selective and authors, even autobiographers, write for effect." Piers Paul Read, Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography Continue reading Almanac: Piers Paul Read on …
Arts Reach New Ways Forward " a comprehensive package of breakthrough strategies to help you navigate uncertain times and be fully prepared for the future opportunities that await -- is help…
Beyond navigating COVID-19, Ms. Jaffe has big ideas for PBT and its growing school. She wants more diversity in choreography, more collaborations with museums and other institutions and some…
White people and some ethnic groups follow a progression of youth orchestras and schools of the arts and then are often paired with principal musicians in local professional orchestras. Mean…
Loving monsters is a love of chaos, a longing to dance a little with death to better understand the danger. Cryptid violence is more approachable than human violence. It's easy to ponder way…
Ahead of the event guests have been sent a list of Covid-19 guidelines, including information on passing through thermo-scanners as they enter the festival and anyone found to have a body te…
Imagine instead that we worked with idea that creativity wasn't about novelty. That doesn't mean we'd have to give up the value of originality entirely, but rather see it as one of a range o…
By 2030, if only the 5 largest foundations spent down the entirety of their assets, approximately $73 billion would flow directly to large-scale issues that require only cash to be truly sol…
No, it wasn't to generate random patterns of movement; rather the contrary, in fact. Ellen Jacobs, for years his company's publicist, recounts how, at age 70, when his body could no longer d…
All the fans were volunteers, part of Restart-19, a study to see if and how big cultural and sporting events can be held safely in the era of COVID-19. The daylong experiment was set up by s…
Studios in the Federation have released at least seven major big-budget movies set during what Russians call the Great Patriotic War just since 2010. Alex Cox has a look at what they say abo…