Out beyond the big state capitals, people had barely had a chance to take a breath after the catastrophic bushfires of the Australian summer when COVID-19 hit, straining the national economy…
From 2007: Six months ago, I bought a Fairfield Porter lithograph. Two weeks ago, I stood at the edge of a rocky cove near the southern tip of a remote island off the coast of Maine, looking…
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one"the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters Continue r…
Instead of reading the sonnets in the numbered sequence of the 1609 quarto, which is the usual way, they examine them in what they believe was their order of composition. This puts a special…
I have to hand it to Holland Cotter: For better or worse, the NY Times' co-chief art critic was right. I was wrong. " Lee Rosenbaum
Governments that seem to have done best "are led by people who read fiction" she said, naming Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland, Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand, KatrÃn Jakobsdóttir in Iceland…
It's a brave new world out there, and we're all going to have to adapt. There are no limits to what our artists, technicians, actors, creators, musicians, dancers and designers can imagine t…
According to the survey of over 1,000 people in the U.S. conducted between Aug. 3"10, 70% of consumers believe COVID-19 has had a severe negative impact on movie theaters, and 69% see a seve…
Rarely discussed is what "pulling" something actually entails in the digital production age, when film or tape hard copies rarely exist, as well as what the risks are of losing some content …
Some researchers have demonstrated that disorders from schizophrenia to stroke appear to be dependent not on individual brain regions, but on the circuitry among those regions. Outside the r…
Sure, the acting is off, critics universally pan them and the dancing can be just so-so, but the category endures because there is still something so great about the completely nonsensical y…
The festival has been renamed Re-Generation, and a temporary theatre constructed that, were it at normal capacity, would seat around 1,500, but for the late August event will house only 500.…
Humans have spent decades trying to teach other animals our languages"sometimes for convenience or amusement, sometimes out of scientific curiosity"but we've made little effort to learn thei…
The past six hundred million years have been mostly a span of relentless heat, during which plants and then animals first climbed up and colonized Earth's great, empty landmasses. Extreme he…
Sure, one might wonder why one of the United States's greatest traitors has a statue in the United States Capitol Building, but that's a long (racist) story. In any case, it's time for the s…
When Aesha Ash got hired as a City Ballet dancer, she felt the weight of her people on her back. "I wasn't just dancing for myself, and I wasn't just dancing to rise through the ranks and be…
Sarah Cooper is a UX engineer who, during lockdown, decided to take advantage of TikTok and the United States president's, er, unique response to the pandemic, earning her a huge response an…
How he feels playing to an online audience: "You can't touch, you can't hug, you can't shake hands. But what music does, its sound moves air molecules. So when air floats across your skin an…
Well, why not let a video game provide a virtual mosh pit, virtual vendors, and a musical experience that lasts for days? "The super fans eat it up because they're excited in a time when the…
Comedian Tig Notaro is replacing disgraced actor Chris D'Elia in Army of the Dead, but how exactly does that play out during quarantine? It doesn't. "The film will mix full reshoots of Notar…
Lion Forge is a Black-owned animation studio, the only Black-owned animation studio. For founders and staff, that makes its mission different. "It's representation on the screen. It's repres…
Yes, obviously, humans are animals, and also obviously, we don't truly know how to get into the mind of a hyena or a fox or a dog, but still: In these books, readers can "expand their taxono…
Clemency Burton-Hill works as the creative director at WQXR, New York's classical station, and has been a BBC presenter, including a lot of Proms coverage. In early 2020, she had a massive b…
In 2020, some things to remember about M.A.S.H., and especially Hawkeye: "Hawkeye taught us that when your world is disintegrating, it is not only possible but utterly necessary to crack a j…
The murals were, as one versed in the history of white supremacist rhetoric in the U.S. might guess, created in the 1930s. In one, "Development of the Sciences by artist Albert C. Runquist, …