Well, what answer did you expect to find in a newspaper column? Nevertheless: "It might be difficult to grasp that writing a magazine cover [story] could appeal more than featuring on it, bu…
The outcome of the debate over AI's inventorship status and other intellectual property rights could have substantial consequences, particularly for creative industries. " Vice
Earlier this month, more than 60 former students at Ballet West, a boarding school in the Scottish Highlands, accused Jonathan Barton, the school's vice-principal and son of its principal, o…
The dismissal of 50 out of 180 full-time office employees is "the latest in a stream of cost-cutting measures designed to help the orchestra weather a prolonged hiatus from live performance,…
"As the novel coronavirus takes its toll on businesses all over the world, many well-meaning consumers have flocked to local community bookstores. However, increased demand on these small sh…
With cinemas in many of the big U.S. metros still closed and many potential customers still unconvinced that multiplexes are safe from the coronavirus (despite the efforts of the National As…
"The theater said it has given $1,000 'financial relief payments' to 368 people including technicians and crew members like carpenters, truck drivers, engineers and programmers; teaching art…
"At a time when museum leaders across the country are being challenged on whether their institutions are systemically racist, few are confronting as many thorny issues as [Salvador] Salort-P…
From 2004: "This is absolutely the only place to live," I told her. "Nowhere else." "Oh, I guess it's all right to visit other places," she replied. "And you could live somewhere else …
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." Charles Lamb (quoted in The Athenaeum, January 4, 1834) Continue reading Almanac: C…
Belarusian theatres, almost all of them state-owned since Soviet times, have officially remained outside of politics for 26 years. Everyone in management positions was appointed by the Minis…
The project, called Perform, looked at the amount of aerosols and droplets generated by performers. The findings could have implications for live indoor performances, which resumed in Englan…
The anthropologist Marc Augé gave the name non-place to the escalating homogeneity of urban spaces. In non-places, history, identity, and human relation are not on offer. Non-places used to…
A century after his birth, Stern is no longer nearly so well remembered as Bernstein, whose posthumous celebrity remains undiminished. By contrast, Stern is essentially unknown to Americans …
From the experience in the theatre to when and where movies will be shown, to… " HuffPost
As the jazz world mourns Joe Segal's death Aug. 10 at age 94, I realize anew that Segal had found the best way possible to win converts to the music he revered: by welcoming the uninitiated …
In complex systems, the last thing that happened is almost never informative about what's coming next. The world is always changing " partly due to factors outside our control and partly due…
"College degrees are out of reach for many Americans, and you shouldn't need a college diploma to have economic security," writes Kent Walker, senior vice president of global affairs a…
Josh Kosman: "If you'd asked me at the time, I could have unreeled a fairly high-minded manifesto about the central importance of honesty in criticism. None of it would have been wrong, exac…
Some of the subpoenas are for companies that Leon Black, the chairman of the Museum of Modern Art, has used to build a collection that includes paintings by Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse and Pa…
The NYT's classical music critic isn't truly enjoying his time off because there hasn't been very much time on. "The shutdowns have been devastating for American classical music, given…
Should stand-up comedians play drive-in gigs, participate in Zooming, try to start YouTube channels or wait, somehow, for live audiences to return? It's a bit of a mess for them, and sitting…
There's a lot going on right now. "Archivists, curators, and librarians nationwide are assembling the record of how the pandemic is impacting their communities in real time, collecting every…
The company realized last November that, given the current funding climate, it would not be able to sustain itself beyond the coming year. State and private grant priorities were shifting, A…
Portland doesn't exactly have the best history with its Black populations, including forced gentrification after decades of intense redlining. A 69-year-old artist says, "They tried to scoop…