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The test events will feature the London Symphony Orchestra at St Luke's Church, as well as performances at the London Palladium and Butlin's holiday parks. "This is an important milestone fo…
Did he become a great conductor? No, he became a valuable conductor, championing the work of Canadian composers more than any of his contemporaries did. He knew the composers on a personal l…
The bad news, according to the report: Only 72,000 subscribers stuck around and decided to pay $5 a month (or $8 without ads) for the service. That conversion rate, around 8%, does not bode …
When I perform comedy, I can still hear echoes of my influences coming through. Jack Benny, certainly, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Lenny Bruce, Steve Allen, Carl Reiner, too. But it is not …
"You can criticize what people say, you can argue about platforms. But it seems like some of the excesses of the moment are leading people to be silenced in a new way." " The New York Times
"Instagram was one of the first apps to fully exploit our relationship with our phones, compelling us to experience life through a camera for the reward of digital validation." " New Statesm…
Never heard of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation? It's the body that manages Berlin's Museum Island complex and all the other state-run museums in the German capital, along with the …
"A measure of relief may come from a century-old system set up by Rodin himself allowing the museum to sell up to 12 replicas of select sculptures every year. The bronzes are cast in special…
What's more, says artistic director Kevin Buist, "It's not clear if there will be an event in 2021, and if there is, it's not clear who will run it." The largest contemporary art exhibition …
For months now (starting before COVID), American Repertory Theater head Diane Paulus and professor Joseph Allen of Harvard's Chan School of Public Health have been working on this issue, and…
"In what's billed as one of the largest arts and culture studies ever done in the US, the new report Culture and Community in a Time of Crisis has surveyed some 124,000 people to take a look…
"Government-required public notices have been published in newspapers since colonial times. … But the advent of websites operated by federal, state and local governments gave politicians a…
"The prominent fall events, all positioned six weeks from each other, [will] collaborate rather than compete in a spirit of post-pandemic solidarity. The statement announcing this alliance p…
The Brooklyn Bridge, for example, was originally built for trains, bicycles and pedestrians. More than 400,000 people a day on average once crossed it. Then it was "modernized" for cars. Now…
"For me, his work stands with Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Ellington and Stravinsky in achieving that rare fusion of heart and mind. … His meticulous craftsmanship and ear for orchestration, har…
The letter"whose endorsers included everyone from Noam Chomsky to Gloria Steinem to Margaret Atwood to Salman Rushdie to Wynton Marsalis"applauded "powerful protests for racial and social ju…
Laura Collins-Hughes: "All that frenzy of streamable online activity " the virtual readings and talk shows, the archival videos and topical new plays " is part of keeping the candle lit. ……
"Though we are still miles and months away from a resuscitation, who would have guessed that, in the meantime, the savior of the stage might turn out to be its perpetual enemy, the screen? �…
"This is theater of the mind, you know?" Wild says. "We do so much vocal work in the program, so much text work, so much breaking down a scene " What is this character doing? What do they wa…
It's Swan Lake Bath Ballet, "a contemporary take on the classic featuring 27 A-list ballet dancers performing from their own bathtubs. The BBC commissioned the project from choreographer Cor…
"We were going to do two sittings each night and the shows sold out straight away. We knew there was an appetite among audiences to come back. But when restrictions weren't relaxed, we had t…
"[He] brought a wry, genial sense of humor to nearly 700 cartoons published in The New Yorker over 35 years. They were set in conference rooms and homes, on desert islands and roadsides, at …
"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, t…
The Mellon Foundation's announcement that its grant-making will focus entirely on social justice is not a wakeup call. The alarm has been sounding for years. Business as usual (that is, we d…
"The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation. Th…
