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This year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which had already been rescheduled from this spring to August, will now take place in the late summer and fall of 2021; next year's (art) Biennale w…
Beans and poverty. Beans and diversity. "Here's a recipe" leads to a doubtful bean cul-de-sac, no matter how much chopped and shredded you throw on top and shove in the oven till the eternal…
Opera America had asked me to speak at their annual conference this year, but of course the conference was canceled and moved online. So I made this video for the online conference, talking …
If we as a nation come out of the pandemic with a heightened awareness of and reaction to profound economic inequality and the systemic injustice in which it is rooted, it could be that the …
In D.C., you see, it is legal to possess marijuana but not to sell it; there is, however, no law against giving it away. So the enterprising proprietors of District Derp gallery got the idea…
For decades, most authors writing in French in Africa have had to publish their books in France, partly because of a lack of publishing infrastructure at home and partly because French compa…
"Afrolit Sans Frontières, a series of hourlong readings and question-and-answer sessions held entirely on Facebook and Instagram, kicked off on March 23 and [is recurring monthly]. In the f…
In addition to his triumphs in Europe, he was one of the few French singers of his time to have a big career in the U.S., notably in Chicago and Philadelphia and at the Met, where he sang fo…
Justin Davidson: "There is a cohort of artists and presenters who, long before the great contagion, were already rethinking the physical relationships between performers, audience, and space…
By the time new Washington Post classical critic Michael Andor Brodeur confesses that he used to listen to Feldman at the supermarket and when stuck in traffic, you might think he's not impa…
Alexis Soloski: "The glut of new content speaks to the reach and ubiquity of his work, the open-source accessibility of his plays, the confidence that if you do share a snippet of pentameter…
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' first published in 1798, is … the dream-poem of right now." It's currently appearing on YouTube in short daily installments re…
"In designing this new organization, Facebook's leaders … formed a separate legal trust with an initial $130 million investment from Facebook. But they also empowered that trust to both ac…
"It will hear only individual appeals about specific content that the company has removed from the service " and only a fraction of those appeals. The board can't say anything about the toxi…
"In California, all construction " including museum expansions " has been categorized as essential. While much of the art world is standing still, expansions at LACMA, the Hammer, and other …
Flutist Stephanie Winker has been organizing these very intimate events at the airport and in other locations around Stuttgart " inspired, she says, by The Artist Is Present, the project in …
"Set up in the 1960s via international treaty, Intelsat SA has played a critical and often-overlooked role providing connectivity infrastructure for more than a half century so that humanity…
"Most often associated with the Grupo Frente movement of the 1950s and '60s, Palatnik was among the first Brazilian artists to take up a style called Concretism, which envisioned formalist g…
Dirk Obbink was perhaps the world's most admired expert in Greek-language papyrus fragments from the early centuries of the Christian era " which is why he was recruited by Hobby Lobby presi…
"Scientists at the Charité in Berlin have issued a 13-page paper, at the request of seven Berlin orchestras [including the Philharmonic and the Staatskapelle], advising the distances to be …
Here's how studios are currently using artificial intelligence to manage operations and workflow, editing, analysis of finances and moviegoer preferences, and "digital humans." What's more, …
"The investment is the biggest bet to date made by AT&T to realize the promise of its $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner. … The hope is that HBO Max is built up over the next few…
"While he did take star turns, his many 'comprimario' roles, as opera's supporting roles are known, increased his performance total to sixth among basses in Met history. He sang 62 roles wit…
"Many of the community's original tenants remain, and with rents for a live-work studio in the building maxing at about $1,200 per month " $1,900 less than the median rent for a studio in th…
"'Oh, I hope it holds together,' he fretted the other morning, between rewrites and rehearsals of In-Zoom, his new 10-minute play. Performed by Irwin in New York and Christopher Fitzgerald, …
