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Elif Batuman on watching Theater of War's online production of Sophocles's Oedipus the King: "You've never really seen Oedipus, I found myself thinking, till you've seen it during a plague. …
All three are collaborating or consulting on major projects in China with development firms owned by the state. They say that sharing their collections and expertise in this way "can help to…
"[They] led major concerts by Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony, gave the Philadelphia Orchestra premiere of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 8, and led the Metropolitan Opera's celebrated rehabi…
Over the last few months, it has been interesting to watch how theatre navigates what, in many cases, is largely new territory: digital space. What began as a free-for-all, with organisation…
He first came to prominence on recordings by Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano, especially their landmark series of Monteverdi's madrigals. He then broke off to found his own consor…
Lanier finds many things fundamental to living in a society hard, like adhering to concepts relating to time, or receiving or sending mail; one ride in his amusement park brain is "a hamster…
Chelsea Ainsworth and artist Kyle Netzeband decided that presenting dance on film or online just wasn't adequate. So they decided they'd try putting on a series of shows on the roof of their…
The world's most-used online dictionary has, among other changes, capitalized Black throughout; changed homosexuality to gay sexual orientation; revised language around ethnicity, suicide, a…
Laura Cappelle, a thoroughly bilingual arts journalist and a trained sociologist, looks at the assumptions made and misunderstood by both Ruth Mackenzie and the officials who hired and then …
"The festival said its 26 digital productions, which featured specially staged performances involving about 500 artists, musicians and technical staff, were watched 1.013m times in nearly 50…
"'This pandemic has devastated so many lives and businesses,' [general director Tomer] Zvulun said. 'But it has also been a major catalyst in accelerating our shift to a business model that …
Way back on August 9, "Margarita" tweeted side-by-side images of van Gogh's Café Terrace at Night and a rendition of the same scene in Arles by contemporary painter Haixia Liu (not to be co…
Itzhak Perlman plays a movement from Wieniawski's Second Violin Concerto on The Ed Sullivan Show. This episode was broadcast on May 10, 1964, when Perlman was nineteen years old:
(This i…
"All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself."
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Continue reading Almanac: Dickens on se…
"Battle Instructions is Burroughs the self-styled revolutionary in 1960 at his most historically explicit, the courageous whistle-blower denouncing and exposing moguls, political leaders and…
No one had any idea if people would tune in to all this arts content when the digital floodgates opened in March. Now arts organizations are reporting massive increases in online audiences d…
Currently celebrating its 15th year as an internationally recognized art house film center, Film Streams was established as a nonprofit in 2005 and has grown to an operation of two venues th…
Most nonfiction books are not fact checked; if they are, it is at the author's expense. Publishers have said for years that it would be cost-prohibitive for them to provide fact checking for…
"The global pandemic made it difficult to sit exams safely, so a solution needed to be devised. By looking at a combination of teacher's predictions, past individual performance, and past sc…
"Multiply your age by 0.9. If you're forty, you've spent thirty-six of your years indoors. About a third of that is time spent sleeping, but still. Most humans who live in the United States …
"How do singers such as Betty Carter take command of the present moment, seemingly bending reality to their will? While more romantic notions of creativity might point to Carter, and others …
"He believed, he once wrote, that a mind 'still inhabiting the flesh' could reach another mind at great remove. There was an inciting incident in the spring of 1875 (before Twain's red hair …
Australian regulators say the tech giants benefit from publishing news generated by others, but Google and Facebook are so dominant in search and social, respectively, that publishers can't …
"Powered by an artificial intelligence text generator, the video game [AI Dungeon] can be played on smartphones or computers, offering players a choice of five genres: fantasy, mystery, apoc…
The Shakespeare system is not simply Shakespeare's written work, but the complex and oppressive role his work, legacy, and positionality hold in our contemporary society. Feeling defensive y…
