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Customer expectations that independent booksellers will do what a massive online operation does has caused deep frustration. " Publishers Weekly
Eight of Telemundo's 11 YouTube channels have at least one million subscribers. The mother ship is now at 10.6 million, up from 1 million in 2015, and the next-biggest, one dedicated to cour…
In France, Germany, Italy or Belgium, where the arts are heavily subsidized by the state, performing companies and museums can survive with reduced ticket sales. But in Britain, where govern…
They're grand spaces now in decay " which gives them altogether another kind of beauty. " The Guardian
The classes mix entertainment and education, each one shot in a different location. You can learn basketball on the personal training court of NBA star Stephen Curry, or step into the kitche…
The bleak scenarios thrown up by films such as Contagion, from panic buying and isolation to fear of others and fake claims of miracle cures, appeared to help viewers take the outbreak in th…
Elizabeth Kendall remembers: "SoHo was dance spilling out into life. It was a grimy laboratory of the future. … In SoHo you could get a turnip soup with an asymmetrical bread chunk at an e…
Since physical distancing measures were put in place across the country, internet usage on Shaw's wireline network has increased by as much as 50 percent overall, and peak usage periods have…
Back in the late 1960s, Charlie Perrière was a struggling young musician in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, and about to leave for Congo when he was personally summoned by …
They're showing movies in their auditoriums (social distancing observed, of course), opening their cafes and bars, presenting art exhibits " anything that can offer a place to (safely) gathe…
There's no reason why the art gallery as we know it, a 19th century invention, should last forever. But there's also no sign of an alternative on the horizon. As with other small New York bu…
"This story is about reckless journalism. About one desperate Murdoch newspaper that sacrificed tried and true practice to grab a scoop. About the damage inflicted on two people, their famil…
"Three Federal Court judges ruled that articles published by Sydney's The Daily Telegraph newspaper in 2017 conveyed the imputation that Rush was a pervert and that the trial judge had corre…
The Wilma in Philadelphia plans to construct and install what it's calling The Wilma Globe. "It would be built within the current Wilma Theater and would place audience members, individually…
Andrei Filatov, a rail transport and investment magnate (who is also chairman of the Chess Federation of Russia), has offered to purchase the long-controversial statue in front of the Americ…
Paolo Cirio scraped over 100,000 auction records from the past ten years of Sotheby's sales and is now offering digital reproductions of the auction lots for 1/100,000th of the price they so…
Hank Stuever: "As soon as one Karen flames out across the Internet, another apparently more unhinged Karen rises in her place. … Amid a culturally fractious and largely failed attempt to q…
At a moment when the world's museums are being called out for ingrained and unexamined inequalities, the American Museum of Natural History is one of the few to take decisive action. Art ins…
"[She] enthralled audiences around the world with a combination of classical rigour and romantic warmth " the mix of 'ice and fire … simply mind-blowing' that one reviewer found in a recor…
"Scholars in the work of surrealist Frida Kahlo have searched for more than six decades for The Wounded Table, a 1940 oil painting illuminating her pain over the breakup of her marriage to m…
Sarah Kaufman: "Artistically, The Nutcracker is a big playing field where dancers can achieve breakthroughs, because over the unusually long run of performances, they are typically cast in m…
"Deputies voted to allow a one-off deduction of up to €50 (£45) to households subscribing for the first time, and for at least 12 months, to a newspaper, magazine or online news ser…
"Depression is melancholy minus its charms"the animation, the fits."
Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor
Continue reading Almanac: Susan Sontag on depression at About Last Night.
Sotheby's "LIVE GLOBAL AUCTION EVENT" was, per yesterday's post-sale press release, "an unprecedented live-streamed event, with banks of telephone-bidding colleagues beamed in from around th…
For the uninitiated, it remains the cultural event of a troubled season. Disney Plus has reputedly suspended all discounts and free trials ahead of Hamilton's debut on the streaming service.…
