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"In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. I loved it because it was all I had. I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so littl…
Last year, official figures revealed that almost 800 libraries had closed since the implementation of austerity in 2010. "We do think these current announcements could be the 'canary in the …
A much-romanticised era for the city, these years are commonly celebrated as a period of explosive artistic, literary, intellectual and especially musical modernisation in which resolutely i…
How is it that a mere apology can turn long-held assumptions upside down in a way that practical solutions, such as more social support or even financial assistance, simply can't do alone? T…
From all indications, the Museum of Ice Cream is melting down. Spending was slashed in January. In March, Bunn temporarily closed the permanent installations in New York and San Francisco, a…
We tend to treat cities like the weather, using past patterns to predict outcomes over which we have no control. But the last few months have reminded us that cities are not givens, the stat…
It has become a truism to say the coronavirus pandemic will change everything about higher education. But few discuss who should shape this change. The faculty? The student body? The public?…
"[She] brought glamour to the organ console thanks to her extraordinary dexterity at the keyboard and her love of life in the fast lane: she swore like a trooper, drank like a fish, smoked l…
"The bill's vague provisions make it easy for the state to target artistic and creative productions, especially critical, satirical or protest forms it subjectively deems as anti-government …
Why have Chicago's for-profit institutions been so hit? The main reason is their total revenue dependence. A big non-profit potentially can rely on its board members to bankroll it through t…
The Byzantine emperor built it in the sixth century to be the flagship cathedral of Eastern (and perhaps all) Christianity. When the Ottoman sultan conquered Constantinople in 1453, he conve…
Today, the convergence of Covid-19 closing down all public events, along with the explosive outrage with continued police carnage in communities of color, brings us to a similar inflection p…
"The study … found that only 11,000 people were habitual Gaelic speakers, after a rapid decline during the 1980s when the density of native speakers fell below 80%. … The language is rar…
After six weeks of "fantasy Proms" consisting mostly of rebroadcasts from previous years' festivals, the hope is to present live performances (without live audiences) in the Royal Albert Hal…
"I believe very strongly that museums have a social justice role to play. … I'm not expecting museums to engage in partisan politics. What I'm expecting museums to be is driven by scholars…
"Todd London reflects on why and how we gather, and looks at the canons-in-the-making of four African-American playwrights " Jackie Sibblies Drury, Aleshea Harris, Anna Deavere Smith, and Da…
A "synthetic actor" called Erica "has been cast in b, a $70 million science-fiction movie … about scientists who create an AI robot named Erica who quickly realize the danger of this top-s…
Jennifer Stahl, who juried this year's Boston semi-finals of Youth America Grand Prix: "Putting exact numbers to qualities like 'musicality' and 'épaulement' is just as tricky as it sounds.…
Budgets across departments have been slashed as the city looks to recover from an estimated $9 billion loss in tax revenue due to the shutdown. Among the hard hit is New York City's Departme…
"In a broadcast career that spanned more than a half-century" " he began in radio in 1939 and was on television within a decade, ultimately hosting or co-hosting The Tonight Show opposite Ja…
"Tate, the British museum network that facilitates it, reconstituted the prize in light of the coronavirus pandemic. In lieu of the main £25,000 ($32,200) award, 10 artists and collective…
Louis Armstrong plays "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" (interpolating "The Star-Spangled Banner") on The DuPont Show of the Month: Crescendo, originally telecast live by CBS on Septem…
"It is a trite yet urgently true observation that if America is to remain a first-class nation, it cannot have second-class citizens."
Martin Luther King, Jr., address to the National Urban …
I regret that I can only offer you my camcorder's sound complete with audience noise. But there is enough spirit and inspiring artistry to make up for that, I think. " Michal Shapiro
From early March on, there have been increasing demonstrations of the jazz community taking care of itself and its own. " Howard Mandel
