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Juliet Ames couldn't resist decorating her first salt box, back in December. Then she got permission from the city. "In the past two months, more than 100 of the decorated salt boxes have ap…
Pretty much, yes. "Downtown Christchurch isn't empty because of COVID. It's empty because of twin catastrophes: Ten years ago an earthquake leveled much of the city"and then the local and na…
Sometimes, virtual isn't going to cut it " and certainly won't replace "the interstitial socializing, the sidewalk conversations on the way to the next bar, the hungover confessionals of the…
Peter Quinn, VFX artist, has been making homemade special effects movies, and posting them online. "The whole quarantine and lockdown aspect, I find that useful because it means I've got all…
Looks like the mystery's been solved " and the writer was (drumroll) … the artist himself. "The text, 'Could only have been painted by a madman,' isn't large enough for most people to noti…
To wit: Cyril and Ruth Harvey, "who played a key role in popularizing the game, lived on Pennsylvania Avenue (a pricey $320 green property on the board); their friends, the Joneses, lived on…
Di Modica was a "Sicilian-born sculptor best known for Charging Bull, 3.5 tons of bronze belligerence that he illegally deposited in Lower Manhattan one night in 1989." But this wasn't the f…
DalÃ, art historians say, was "very deliberate" in his art " and sketches of unfinished works also show how he combined complex mathematical calculations with artistic license in his fini…
As the leader of "NYPopsUp" explains, "This is what I like to call 'social music.' … You can use music to minister to so many sectors of society." This summer, that means 100 days of scatt…
The disclaimer, which runs on 18 episodes of the show (re-relased on Disney+ last week): "This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotyp…
The Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles is the largest Black-majority orchestra in the country. But it doesn't want to be alone. The ICYO founder's mantra "is that there needs to be an…
At issue: Whether the comedian Mike Ward harmed a disabled teenager by mocking his disability, calling him "ugly," saying that the youth would die soon and if he didn't, the comedian would d…
The museum in Washington, DC, founded by Duncan and Marjorie Phillips, was a sensation when it opened as a museum of modern art, and it's been a refuge and inspiration since, including, at t…
Graham Greene is interviewed by Jack Mangan in an outtake from a 1950 episode of Ship's Reporter in which he talks about The Third Man:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and…
"People don't like reality. They don't like common sense. Until age forces it on them."
Graham Greene, Loser Takes All
Continue reading Almanac: Graham Greene on facing reality at About L…
"In picking [Gail Samuel], the orchestra looked west, to one of the most successful American orchestras of recent years" " the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where she is COO " "for its choice to…
"Despite being indoors (a red flag), the sort of behavior engaged in at the movies is, relatively speaking, benign. Patrons who can and should wear a mask for the duration of their visit fac…
"Zhang and his co-authors reported high levels of statistical significance for their finding, but the reported differences in the effects of violent games versus nonviolent games were too sm…
Back in 2014, when the EU passed a law allowing people to petition Google to de-index old news stories about them (e.g., criminal convictions or embarrassing incident from youth that became …
"When young children make art together with their caregivers, they share a new experience which can reinforce bonding. Creativity is an extension of babies' natural desire to share and commu…
More than a year after it began its search for a new president and chief executive, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is expected to announce on Thursday that it has found a new leader on the op…
"A functioning market required transparency, a mutual understanding of exchanges and a shared moral framework. And, as Rana Foroohar puts it in this brief animation for the Royal Society of …
"A century ago, samba becoming synonymous with Brazil's cultural identity would have seemed impossible. In the early 20th century, Rio's ruling elite were ashamed and afraid of the rhythm, w…
MPs at the digital, culture, media and sport committee hearing told DCMS minister Caroline Dinenage that her department was treated as an "afterthought" by the government, and that during Br…
"You feel the weight of the famous Palais Garnier opera house itself, and the history and legacy of the legendary dancers who have performed there. And then there's the pressure of expectati…
