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Remote learning isn't all about what articles and resources teachers can cobble together from the internet " especially when a lot of students can only get online occasionally, or in the par…
Or so says the director of an arts production company in the UK. "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…
Amid this backdrop, what are the options available to arts venues, upon which so much of the industry relies, when they find traditional spaces not fit for purpose within social distancing g…
The festival's cancellation has been a big blow to long-term fans " and to the 30,000 performers who travel to the Scottish city each August to show their work. To fill the gap, some artists…
Before Miles Davis went electric and Ornette Coleman bloomed, Brubeck was the surest name to start an argument. A cynical section of the jazz audience perceived his experimental nature as a …
Hurtado spent eight decades "resolutely committed to documenting the interconnectedness of human beings, nature, and terrestrial life," according to her gallery. In the past two years, she's…
Basically, AMC is creating a breeding ground for viral spreading (and not the good kind of viral): "Look, no one wants to get back in a movie theater more than I do " well, OK, my 13-year-ol…
I wrote a review-essay for Saturday's Wall Street Journal book section occasioned by the publication of Straighten Up and Fly Right, Will Friedwald's important new biography of Nat Kin…
Immediately after I heard of the death of Julian Bream last Friday morning, I wrote an obituary about him that appeared on The Wall Street Journal's website later that day. Here's an exce…
Mabel Mercer sings Cole Porter's "Where, Oh Where" (from Out of This World) in an undated video clip of a live performance:Â
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-relat…
"All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be."
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Continue reading Almanac: C.S. Lewis on pretense at About Last Night.
During the height of the first wave of the coronavirus, it seemed this day would never come. Now, "it's odd how the surreal can become de rigueur. At the Gardner I barely noticed the masks, …
This is a good time for some required quarantine viewing, no? And it's always a good time to check out how good directors, dramaturgs, and designers (not to mention actors) can turn Shakespe…
Talk about your unprecedented times. Buckingham Palace needs a plumbing update, so the paintings, including Vermeer's The Music Lesson and two Rembrandts, have to find a temporary home, and …
Lighting designers, sound engineers, tour managers, caterers, bus drivers, and more " all laid off more or less permanently, nebulously, until a vaccine. Their unions and associations are tr…
Thinking about what we've had " Batman, Superman " well, it's time for a change. "A new guard of superheroism doesn't simply mean diversity. It makes room for the possibility that especially…
Novelist Helen Garner terrified her friends for years with what they called her pitiless writer's eye " detached, curious, and omnivorous. But as she ages, she's found it's harder and harder…
Seriously, SAG-AFTRA? During a global pandemic that has a lot of members out of work? Well, trustees say, "By 2024, the Health Plan is projected to run out of reserves. We must prevent this …
In northern Australia, indigenous people are reclaiming land and landmark names. "These changes are about time, mate, but we always kept the names when we worked on country anyway " they nev…
A casting director's dismissive "You should try indie movies, honey" changed Garner's career, and life. " The Hollywood Reporter
This is not to excuse the United States' patchwork of school tests, the weirdness (and inequity) of the ACT or SAT, but … wow. "The coronavirus pandemic means exams were canceled and repla…
But will New Yorkers accept the new song? Musician RZA: "I can assure you that this one is made with love." " Gothamist
Emphasis on that radical, please, when you're talking about author Carol Shields. " The New York Times
OK, let's get metaphysical: "'The true present is a dimensionless speck,' Alan Burdick writes in his book Why Time Flies. 'The specious present, in contrast, is 'the short duration of whi…
Lovecraft was clearly racist and clearly an anti-Semite " and guess what? He also thought the Irish were inferior. "Such prejudices weren't simply background colour. They are front and centr…
