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With the ongoing COVID epidemic making travel to its New Hampshire campus impractical at best, the no-longer-a-colony has invited this summer's eight fellows to a four-week virtual residency…
"William Carden, who has been the artistic director of Off-Broadway's Ensemble Studio Theatre since 2007, will step down from his position. A member of EST since 1978, Carden will continue w…
A new report calculates, in detail, what it would take to aggressively transition to a clean energy economy in the U.S. by 2035"the timeline needed to make it possible to hit the target of t…
"Mr. Schonfeld, who had been expelled from Harvard Law School for gambling, was nothing if not a risk taker. Early in his career he produced newsreels shown in movie theaters, and by the mid…
David Nash at the University of Brighton in the UK and his colleagues have identified the source of 50 of the 52 large boulders, known as sarsens, that make up the monument's iconic stone ci…
Kaatsbaan, a Hudson River-side farm that has been offering retreats and workshops for dancers for 30 years, is presenting public performances for the first time this year. (Thanks to COVID, …
Robust poems committed to memory can counteract the corrosive effects of self-pity. They can offer a different way of viewing the world, particularly to generations that did not suffer the b…
"Education Minister Dan Tehan said the government wanted to 'incentivise students to make more job-relevant choices'. The next wave of graduates would have to power the post-Covid economic r…
There has been a lot of research into the Nazis' plunder of Jewish-owned artwork in Europe during World War II, though far less attention has been paid to the looting of instruments. But a n…
Director and producer Oren Moverman: "The idea of independent financing, putting together films that have no home, taking them to festivals, trying to sell them " they're going to have to ta…
"A group of more than 80 science fiction and fantasy authors are protesting at the possibility of one of the genres' biggest conventions being held in [Jeddah] in 2022, saying that 'the Saud…
The latest COVID-19 Sector Benchmark Insight Report, released by TRG Arts and data specialists Purple Seven, "includes data from 105 nonprofit organizations of all scales in the U.S., Canada…
San Diego's Mainly Mozart got together an eight-member chamber group headed by L.A. Phil concertmaster Martin Chalifour to play octets by Mozart and Mendelssohn in the parking lot of a SoCal…
"The removal of a pair of concrete murals by Pablo Picasso was completed Tuesday from a government building in the Norwegian capital of Oslo whose demolition was under way." (That building, …
"Taste is knowing what you don't like."
Virgil Thomson, The State of Music
Continue reading Almanac: Virgil Thomson on taste at About Last Night.
Who can blame voters for wanting to escape? The last year has been a wrecked clown car inside a dumpster fire that's riddled with the plague. Series that deal with today's ugly reality throu…
"The global poverty rate is now lower than it has ever been in recorded history," Jim Yong Kim, a former president of the World Bank, recently argued. "This is one of the greatest human achi…
The report said the financial transactions were enabled by the secrecy and anonymity with which the art market operates and it called for tighter rules to force greater transparency. The inv…
Even in the best years, funding for arts and culture in our city does not meet the needs of the communities we serve. It is time to expose this hard truth and build the support needed to foc…
The MOCAD board brought in outside counsel to investigate the allegations against Elysia Borowy-Reeder, who became director in 2013. In a release announcing her termination, the board said t…
"Those second looks have turned up several shared themes. One is a new skepticism regarding the relationship that has developed between the epic and prevailing ideas about male heroism. 'A l…
Amid this deluge of performance art offerings flowing into my house, I realized two words marred my experience: remote and control. With remote clenched in one hand and phone in the other, i…
"In both the manifold building blocks of his works and their titles " Ba-O-Ba, Ju-Ju, Palm Saw Tooth Blatt, Bison Bop " Mr. Sonnier came off at times as an irreverent sensualist alongside pe…
"As protesters have remade this avenue, forcing the removal of memorials to men who betrayed their country, covering the remaining plinths with graffiti and activating the street day and nig…
"Every day we read about a new proposed seating plan or air-filtering system being trialled in an Edwardian playhouse to enable safe, socially distanced theatre in a building designed for th…
