"Almost £1m has been given out to nearly 700 authors since the end of March, to help those facing financial crisis through the coronavirus pandemic. But the Society of Authors has warned …
From 2010: To be gratuitously nasty in public discourse is like relieving yourself in a swimming pool. Even if nobody knows you did it, you still made the pool a dirtier place for everybody"…
"The very man who has argued you down will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said." C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms Continue reading Almanac: C.S.…
One stands back and marvels how horizons have kept expanding in the music before J.S. Bach, with modern premieres of 400-year-old works by names you've barely heard of " and leave you wantin…
NJIT's (New Jersey Institute of Technology) groundbreaking and highly respected Professional Certificate in Creative Placemaking will be conducted in virtual classroom format in Fall, 2020. …
To combat sleeplessness, people are turning to all sorts of techniques, iWhile sleep music used to be confined to the fringes of culture"whether at avant-garde all-night concerts or New Age …
MasterClass launched in 2015 with just three classes: Dustin Hoffman on acting, Serena Williams on tennis, and Patterson on writing. Since then the company has grown exponentially, raising $…
Music has been around as long as there have been people. Longer if you count music made by animals. It's safe to say that music will be a part of this world as long as there is life. So what…
This game-changing decision could result in a complete overhaul of not only who owns theater chains in the near and long-term future, but how, when and where consumers will enjoy feature fil…
David Mikics's "Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker" is a cool, cerebral book about a cool, cerebral talent. This is not a full-dress biography " there have been several of Kubrick " but a b…
Showrunners have been changing scenes to have little or no background performers, Paula Spurr says. She's even heard of some smaller-budget productions using mannequins "in the deep backgrou…
After making their first appearance in Toronto in 1961, Salome settled there in 1964 and began playing the jazz club circuit, soon earning the sobriquet that would be with her the rest of…
TikTok, the video making and sharing app probably most known for its quirky video memes and gags made by people under 20, seems to be in many governments' crosshairs. The attacks either come…
He was no originator, like Schoenberg or Stravinsky, nor did he possess Britten's or Shostakovich's command of manifold genres. He was, however, a composer of rare gifts, particularly in the…
"The other day, my pal, the brilliant songwriter Tom Kitt, called me. He said he was frustrated by his lack of creativity because of the pandemic and was reaching out to several friends to s…
Ventilation is more effective at protecting against airborne transmission of the Covid-19 virus than social distancing or PPE " and "many performance venues have the capability to provide go…
"Poulenc was a composer who melded the incompatible. Famously described as a combination of "monk and ragamuffin", he wrote music that the mind can mistrust but the heart will adore. He clun…
The Aztec historians, creators of a genre called the xiuhpohualli (SHOO-po-WA-lee), developed a highly effective way of keeping satisfying memories alive. The pictographic texts that Itzcoat…
Attendance is expected to be between 1,500 and 1,700 visitors per day, or about half of what's normal, said Jessica Sharpe, the museum's chief of membership and visitor operations. " Philade…
"The way I view work now within colonial structures and institutions is harm reduction. Ultimately, the goal for me is to reduce the harm the Canada Council causes, not just to my community …
When he died in 1917, Rodin left his estate to the museum, including the original plaster molds of more than 100 sculptures. "Rodin gave the economical system so that the museum could live,"…
Insisting that music theory, musicology and ethnomusicology are separate disciplines with no shared ground impoverishes all of our work. By narrowing our focus and policing our boundaries, s…
Expect the cornonavirus era, say theme park experts, to accelerate a play-driven evolution that has steadily been increasing in parks " in part because they naturally lead to exploration, bu…
RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) and the British Council published a paper 'Heritage for Inclusive Growth' which says the sector's potential has b…
"The argument for reopening our cultural institutions has been made with force: art sustains us, say the museum executives over the morning airwaves. But when I enter the exhibition, the fir…