"Female film critics contributed 35% of the film reviews across print, broadcast and online outlets, up 1% from 2019, according to the report, titled Thumbs Down 2020: Film Critics and Gende…
The $750-million building project is on schedule, with the completion planned for the end of 2023. The new Peter Zumthor-designed building has stirred controversy for its square footage as w…
A German couple going swimming in the Grand Canal. An Austrian breaking the toe off a statue when he climbed on it for a selfie. A French woman writing her name in felt-tip pen on the Ponte …
Well, as long as Jersey, 14 miles off the coast of France but 85 miles from England, counts as the British Isles. "The designs were scratched into small ornamental tablets known as plaquette…
"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in California has ruled that the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation in Madrid is the owner of Camille Pissarro's 1897 painting Rue Sain…
"How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?" Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living Continue reading Almanac: Cesare P…
"People have been saying to me, 'Oh, I'm so sorry you had to go through that!' Well I'm not sorry " I think it's the best thing that could have happened to me, considering where I am now. I …
The manuscripts of literary works-in-progress fascinate on many levels, from the flush-faced thrill of spying on something intensely private and the visceral delight of knowing that a legend…
Like office workers across the United States, journalists have been pushed by the coronavirus to retreat from communal spaces and into remote work. Now some are confronting the very real pos…
"In the beginning, people kept saying, 'What are they doing?!'" Mr. Ajala said. "I had to convince them that ballet wasn't a bad or indecent dance, but actually something that requires a lot…
This early promise of a more equitÂable industry didn't last. Once the studio system kicked into gear, women were largely muscled out of positions of authority. There are exploding opport…
"Technology and trivia may not be obvious bedfellows. But trivia enthusiasts in the postwar-trivia boom of the 1950s would surely look in envy at technologies we take for granted today: word…
Some motivation produces excellent performance; too much motivation produces choking. Some group collaboration produces cohesion and enhances productivity; too much of it leads to staleness.…
Theatre union: "The entire industry has been shocked by Cameron Mackintosh's unwillingness to use the coronavirus job retention scheme in full or deploy resources beyond the furlough months …
Artists and institutions in Beirut, large and small, have rebuilt several times since the outbreak of Lebanon's 15-year civil war in 1975 and through subsequent conflict. But even before the…
In many eastern European countries such as Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czechia and Poland the locals' desire to forget their collective traumatic past is paradoxically interwoven with the ne…
He didn't start the community radio movement (that was Lew Hill of Pacifica), but, as one radio historian wrote, "if Lew Hill fathered the movement, Lorenzo Milam reared it." He founded inde…
Rene Girard was almost the Platonic ideal of a hedgehog: he belongs to that lineage of 19th- and 20th-century thinkers whose vast synthetic ambition is now seen by many in the academy as not…
"[The company] hosted galas at its St. Petersburg theaters, featuring solos and duets performed by dancers who had undergone weekly tests for coronavirus. More ambitiously, it had begun stag…
American academia is a hotbed of proliferating identities supported and largely shaped by the higher ranks of administrators, faculty, student groups, alumni, and trustees. Not all identitie…
"More than 100 staff members at the Tate galleries in England began an indefinite strike on Tuesday morning to protest the institution's announcement that it would cut more than 300 jobs fro…
"Many of New York's museum leaders have taken pay cuts to offset some of the financial damage their institutions are suffering from their Covid-related closures. But at a time when museums a…
In late 2017, PBS suspended Smiley's late-night talk show following sexual harassment allegations from staffers. Smiley sued the network, which countersued, and in March 2020, a jury awarded…
First, there are the obvious issues of placement: how far apart the string players must be, how much farther apart for the winds and brass, placing the conductor where everyone can see. In L…
"Like nuclear power plants and sensitive computer networks, the safest rare book collections are protected by what is known as 'defense in depth' " a series of small, overlapping measures de…