"All concerts will be broadcast live via the Royal Albert Hall website and on BBC Radio 3, but there will be no live audience. The fortnight of live performances comes after two months of ar…
"Dr. Nunberg's day jobs were in academia and in a Silicon Valley think tank, but his deepest preoccupation was in understanding how human beings communicate through words, from slang and vul…
"While a final agreement is still pending, the Iraqi government has reportedly consented to a $15 million settlement over 4,000 disputed antiquities in the Museum of the Bible's collection, …
The multistory, ochre-and-white mud-brick houses in the UNESCO-listed old city of Sanaa had already been weakened by bombs and artillery during Yemen's six-years-and-counting civil war. But …
That's because all of Lebanon was in crisis, with daily demonstrations, the collapse of the currency, and a gridlocked, dysfunctional political class that has been clinging to control since …
"As performer and developer of the guitar and its repertory " and as a leading reviver of the lute's Renaissance repertory " Bream, who has died aged 87, was one of the instrument's towering…
The first two theater productions in the U.S. since lockdown to be approved by Actors' Equity for performing before an in-person audience, Godspell at Berkshire Theater Group and Harry Clark…
Venues must require audience members to wear masks and maintain social distance, but if those requirements are being met, then " "despite concerns about persistently high daily infection num…
ErtuÄŸrul, a five-season dizi (that's Turkish for telenovela-crossed-with-historical-epic) about the father of the founder of the Ottoman Empire, "is now so popular that it has been dubbed…
Yung Phil and his crew Turf Feinz may work the BART trains in and around San Francisco, but only between gigs for commercials, music videos, and concert tours. "We're using [the subways] as …
As you might guess, that's not the name of any real person. Jim Crow was, arguably, the original minstrel show character. The performer Thomas Dartmouth Rice (1808-1860) didn't invent minstr…
"What sometimes gets obscured is the fact that many online-censorship decisions are made not by powerful actors" " for instance, senior execs at Facebook or Twitter " "imposing their will on…
"Now several companies are attempting variations on what is sometimes called promenade theater " outdoor productions in which audiences move as they follow the action. The form " a cousin to…
"A child of the Depression and a protégé of the Dust Bowl documentarian Dorothea Lange, Mr. Herron assembled a team of photographers to capture the clashes between white Southerners and Bl…
Known as the Paramount Consent Degrees, the regulations followed from a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court ruling ordering Hollywood studios to sell off their national cinema chains; a US District Cour…
Some better than others. The big, building-based, high-overhead companies in England, the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Co., are "haemorrhaging money," while their smaller count…
"Tate has announced 313 redundancies across its commercial enterprises, which include staff who work in publishing and in gallery shops, cafes and restaurants in London, Liverpool and St Ive…
Not to worry (yet): the papers will continue to publish. But since most newsroom employees have been working from home for months and the timeline for safely returning to offices isn't clear…
Joana Mallwitz: "I'm still amazed about all the situations where it's still possible to be 'the first woman ever.' … I've conducted Mozart operas my whole life at major houses, and I wasn'…
History of Medicine in California, a 1938 ten-panel fresco by Bernard Zakheim, is in a building at UCal-San Francisco that the school is going to tear down and replace. UCSF gave Zakheim's f…
"It's a transition that has taken on particular urgency given the fact that the speaker pool for the world's threatened and endangered languages skews older " precisely the population most a…
The ghazal "is an intimate and relatively short lyric form of verse from the Middle East and South Asia. The form thrives in such languages as Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and now English." Claire…
"In Goethe's 1810 treatise on color he wrote, 'red-yellow gives an impression of warmth and gladness.' He added that 'the feelings they excite are quick, lively, aspiring.' His idea that vis…
"In interviews with more than 20 past and present performers, staff members and others, as well as with the leadership, the challenge of making these enormous changes becomes clear. This is …
"Examining the period between April 1 through July 31," the Brookings Institution paper by Richard Florida and Michael Seman "estimates that some 2.7 million creative Americans were fired an…