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Independent presses around the country said that sales are starting to rebound after two months of declines, due to direct sales, digital initiatives, and a resurgence in demand for topical …
Between 2009 and 2016, the newspapers and poetry magazines published review articles by non-white critics 190 times " 4% of the total for those years. Between 2017 and 2019, non-white critic…
Shifts in consumer behavior have been gnawing away at the classic enclosed suburban mall format for many years; then the pandemic completely upended in-person shopping. Converting commercial…
Glaser scrawled the first draft of the logo in the back of a cab, in 1976, red ink on a scrap of envelope; the sketch is now, fittingly, in the possession of the Museum of Modern Art. He mad…
Haruki Murakami famously wrote his first novel in English and then translated it into his mother tongue himself, resulting in a plainspoken, "neutral" (his word) style far removed from stand…
For most people most of the time, our perception certainly feels real. But the notion that our senses capture an objective external reality can be dispelled by considering something as funda…
"The coronavirus had barely arrived in Germany just before Sofiane Sylve was hired Feb. 1 as the new artistic advisor for Ballet San Antonio. Her experiences there in May with strict coronav…
Conductor Kazushi Ono and the players of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra spent two days at the Bunka Kaikan concert hall in mid-June with researchers from a university and medical …
Driverless cars are catnip for the Silicon Valley monopolists. The average commute is dead space because their target is too busy driving to take in advertising or interact with any informat…
"With his charming, easeful baritone and a crisp, efficient touch at the piano, Cole carved out a professional career of more than 65 years. … Because of a familial resemblance in vocal ti…
Scandinavia is taking the most innovative approach to the notion of the drive-in festival. Between August 21 and 26, in the Swedish town of Karlskrona, the Carl International Film Festival w…
"The space, which features fourteen dark paintings by Rothko, is famous for being dim and moody. It's a sensory deprivation chamber that also functions as a theological deprivation chamber."…
Mr. Reiner gained a national following in the 1950s as a brilliant straight man opposite Sid Caesar on influential TV comedy programs, directed movies that launched Steve Martin's film caree…
"It's precisely because Code Switch has spent years interrogating the effects of race and identity on society that it's the podcast many listeners are now turning to. Launched in 2016, Code …
"Without it, production " especially independent production " cannot resume on a significant level. We urge Congress to develop a program of federal insurance (or guarantee to fill this gap)…
With coronavirus cases surging again in much of the U.S. and not really slowing in the UK, and with the release of the summer's two big tentpole titles, Tenet and Mulan, postponed, AMC and C…
"[The decision is] a surprise legal victory in a fraud case his supporters say was politically motivated and a test of artistic freedom in Russia. Suspended sentences are widely seen as the …
The National Gallery and Royal Academy will accept visitors the following week, but the Tate won't open its four locations until July 27; others are waiting until August or September, and ma…
The global circus giant was struggling with an estimated $900 million in debt (much of it incurred by acquiring other companies) even before the pandemic hit and ended all ticket income. In …
"Mário Frias … is the fifth person to hold the role in the 17 months since president Jair Bolsonaro was elected and, like most of his predecessors, Frias has no political experience. �…
The last play I saw on stage, Katori Hall's The Hot Wing King, had a short off-Broadway run before New York's theaters were closed down in mid-March. Earlier that same week, my beloved wife …
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Today's episode of Fresh Air is all about the history of songs in Hollywood, and the producers invited those who follow the series on Twitter to vote for their favorite movie s…
"My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known"no wonder, then, that I return the love."
Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
Continue reading Almanac: Kierkegaard on depression at …
No, not like the National Theatre Live performances " more like the 1950s style playhouses. "What I'd like to see is both more modest and more ambitious: a TV series that brings together lea…
"We need to recognize that the business of the arts is not like an automotive assembly line that regularly turns out new homologated "products" for eager consumers. The play is not the thing…
