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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…
Up to this point, music was primarily a shared experience: families huddling around furniture-sized Philcos; teens blasting tunes from automobiles or sock-hopping to transistor radios; the b…
There are four problematic recent norms in academia: first, an academic career depends on personal and political matters; second, compliance is rewarded over scepticism; third, academic comp…
This is what I saw with the livestreams: our traditional modes of live performance are not a good fit for the new world we find ourselves in. Rather, as we continue to create live performanc…
I think it can, and here's a suggestion for how to do it: Schools could embrace an older style of teaching used by British universities " the tutorial system " and adapt it for the online wo…
With wealthy collectors no longer travelling, most art business is now conducted online. Art dealers are typically reporting a 70% drop in sales, according to a recent survey conducted by Th…
Librarians understand that patrons are nervous about catching or spreading the coronavirus. But not only will paper catch fire when it gets really hot, the scannable security tags on library…
"COVID-19 has caused more than 1,000 deaths and 6,600 confirmed cases of infection in the province of Cremona … and it is now putting a strain on its economy. In particular, it is threaten…
The great reckoning now sweeping across pop culture has been working through the stacks of literature for far longer. The effects of time are twofold: Most books have fallen into dust, along…
"[The] monthly, location-specific Instameet … brings together top dancers, interesting architecture and elite movement photographers " the intersection of which results in truly exquisite …
Jesse Green: "For months I've been waiting for industry groups to galvanize themselves into meaningful action, as they did in Britain " and as Black theater artists have proved can be done h…
"What I think we can learn from that example is that anti-racism, or facing up to your past, is not a vaccine. It's not a one-shot option. It's a process that you need to continue to go thro…
Adrian Searle: "Visitors … have to follow one of three designated routes through the galleries, all of which are signposted, with arrows on the floor pointing up the prescribed flow. Quite…
Celebrating Mount Rushmore isn't remembering history; instead it requires spectacular acts of forgetting. How could we honestly claim to see in this anything worth defending? " Chicago Tribu…
While the Czech-but-now-French author is known in much of the world for his pointed depictions of how the Communist regimes of Europe twisted the lives of regular people, he's been viewed am…
Justin Davidson makes the case that New York City's overburdened, underinvested-in school buildings simply can't fit students in at a COVID-safe distance, but the currently-dark performance …
"In the lawsuit led by the National Association of Theatre Owners of New Jersey, naming Gov. Philip Murphy and New Jersey's health commissioner, …, the plaintiffs" " which include AMC, Cin…
"The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is…
"The letter, which was published by Harper's Magazine and will also appear in several leading international publications, surfaces a debate that has been going on privately in newsrooms, uni…
"The final collection of early stories from the late Terry Pratchett, written while the Discworld creator was a young reporter, will be published in September. The tales in The Time-travelli…
"MacDowell Board Chair Nell Painter … acknowledged that the word 'colony' can mean a country or given location under the control of an outside power or, as would apply to MacDowell, a comm…
William Holden appears as the mystery guest on What's My Line? The host is John Daly and the panelists are Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Robert Q. Lewis. This episode …
"Holden has turned down Toulouse shedding light as he goes. An aura of heightened reality moves with him and all who fall within it feel it. Now everyone is aware of him. He creates a regula…
Anna Fleischle, an award-winning designer, has defined "a moment of reset in our industry." Rachel O'Riordan, artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith, says she is looking at the public sq…
