Rapid development in India is threatening knowledge of how humanity came to be. Sites are crumbling into rivers, being turned into rice fields, and being destroyed for buildings. "With sites…
Jörg Widmann is a composer, clarinettist, and conductor of the Irish Chamber Orchestra. What did the musician and conductor to do during lockdown? "I always wanted to have some months off, …
New Orleans has more than 130 live music venues, most of them smaller (some far smaller) than the average size venue in the country. The city's restaurants and tourist industry rely on the l…
The Kilroys list this year goes beyond what should be in the future to commemorate what we lost this year. It's "a heartbreaking timeline of lost art, necessary art, groundbreaking art, u…
Some images of New York's abandoned schools: The final, haunting date on the calendar that says "Today is … "; lessons still up about the coronavirus on science classroom whiteboards; all …
How will the online Artist Alley affect their chances at recouping at least some of what they've lost by not being there and at other canceled cons? " The New York Times
Sure, sure, Arthur Conan Doyle died long ago, and both the BBC and CBS versions of modern Holmes have hung up their deerstalkers, but there's always new Holmes material out there. Except ……
Podcasts were hot before the virus killed the commute, but even as their popularity takes a perhaps momentary break, true crime remains popular among listeners (yes, yes, Serial, but there a…
The Paycheck Protection Program is drying up, unemployment checks are about to stop (without a miracle from Congress), and 12,000 arts organizations in the U.S. say they may not survive at a…
De Havilland died at her home in Paris. "The striking brunette won best actress Oscars for The Heiress and To Each His Own in the late 1940s, and was Oscar-nominated for Gone With the Wind, …
The school said in March that it was likely to close, but after more than $4 million in donations, the 149-year-old institution says it can open in the fall for one more full year. But it wi…
The school's recently fired artistic director, students say, "abused his position of power, touching them inappropriately or making sexual overtures that include inviting one student to a se…
While some authors say the fiction can help people learn how to resist and persist, Black people in the U.S. say it's more of a mirror. "Assume where America has always been is a tragedy. Wh…
It may be closed on its 65th anniversary, but that's the only appropriate choice. "For me and many Southern California residents, Disneyland is more than a theme park; it is where I go to…
At the centenary of his birth, NPR has an appreciation of those he mentored and his influence on the music world of today. "Isaac Stern's tombstone simply reads, Isaac Stern, fiddler. These …
Morgan Bullock's TikTok videos went viral, and then came the backlash. The dancer diplomatically says, "I think people use the term appropriation without understanding what it means." Plus, …
It's just too, too weird. "To someone living exclusively online, many of Freud's "primitive beliefs" would be literal truths. The dead live on in their videos and social media feeds. Thanks …
Opening with socially distanced audiences on August 1st? Not likely, say theatres. "For most theatres it will not be economically viable to reopen with 30%-40% audience required under social…
Natasha Trethewey, former poet laureate of the U.S.: "When people talk about how getting rid of [Stone Mountain] would be erasing history " well, the monument itself is already an erasure of…
Sapardi, an influential poet and cultural critic, founded the Indonesian Literary Scholars Association and served as a dean at the University of Indonesia. One author: "As long as I've known…
Sure, people might pay $20 for a concert " but will they do what's even better, what the Met would like them to do? "The recitals are intended to stimulate donations. 'Fund-raising ebbs and …
At least partially " the biggest ad buyer this year on the social media giant has decided to pull its Disney Plus and Hulu ads, probably, along with hundreds of other advertisers, over conce…
The graduating MFA class of 2020 at the Oregon College of Art and Craft has, to put it mildly, been through some things. But they may be the only graduating MFA class in the country to have …
Last week, Netflix suddenly decided to "reveal" its Top 10 movies of all time. Hm. "The catch was that Netflix provided the ranking and the numbers itself, meaning there was no way to verify…
What's that about? "Are these enablers true believers or just cynical opportunists? Do they believe the lies they tell and the conspiracies they invent or are they simply greedy for wealth a…