In short: "COVID-19 is likely to reshape the ways in which today's architects design houses and offices, transit hubs and medical facilities. It will have architects reaching for new technol…
This is the scintillating way auctions will happen this summer (and perhaps beyond, of course): "The Sotheby's auctioneer, Oliver Barker, will be live, by video, in London, looking at screen…
How bleak is it out there? Well, how many politicians are quoting Yeats's "The Second Coming"? And the poet made it that way deliberately: "Early drafts of the poem illustrate Yeats's dedica…
The work is part of the controversial Panza Collection. "In the mid-'70s Panza acquired from Judd a paper 'certificate' for an unconstructed work known as Untitled [Seven plywood boxes: open…
Dorfman began with the giant Polaroids in a pushcart in Harvard Square. When the police tried to chase her away, she won a civil rights case against them. "Her work is widely praised for sho…
Kendrick Sampson of Insecure and The Flash was streaming LA's protest on Instagram Live "when the officers began firing rubber bullets at protestors. He was also hit by police multiple times…
Take a look at Taiwan: "A livestream of the May 24 concert offered a possible crystal ball for post-coronavirus concerts: temperature checks, face masks and enhanced disinfection protocols. …
Well, perhaps not orchestral music in Britain, but with club music of all kinds, "We transcend this realm. It is a secular spiritual experience. The energy with which Britain has pursued tha…
As the pandemic has wiped out all cultural programming at Lincoln Center for months, Moss has been thinking harder about something she'd been considering long before Covid-19 hit the city. S…
What's the point, they say, when social distancing restrictions would mean they wouldn't survive more than three months anyway? " BBC
First of all, yikes. However, many of us miss the moviegoing experience, and so a few movie theatres in Texas are trying to "create an early blueprint for all the other theatres that are sti…
No, theatre and dance and opera and concerts won't be returning in the autumn. "'I am 100 percent confident that it is not happening,' said Nancy Umanoff, Mark Morris's executive director. F…
It's only shocking because it's against everything about automatic payments and online sign-ups. "The general imperative of any subscription service is to wring a monthly payment out of y…
Does this have implications for other systems that aren't working well for the people who actually do the work? Perhaps. At the least, the industry "offers a very important lens to examine t…
Not just for this year, when the change makes sense due to the coronavirus, but forever? Well, says one critic, "I believe there's something sacred in the moviegoing experience that I can't …
Perhaps that's obvious, but a new book "will argue that many assumptions previously made about the origins of scenes from the sagas are wrong." " The Observer (UK)
The director of the National Theatre and the Tate convened (by screen, natch) to figure it out. "At the beginning, it was shocking but people thought the crisis would last three weeks. Possi…
Macurdy's rich voice and stage presence won him accolades over his 38-year career at the Met. "Though he achieved success in key roles like Gurnemanz in Wagner's Parsifal, King Marke i…
And that's partly because of who's controlling the narrative. There's a small, but perhaps growing, "cultural trend in which black women, especially those of medium-to-dark-brown complexions…
That's what Orchestra Kentucky says, anyway. And if you don't have your own instrument, no problem: "Even just listening to music and watching other musicians can have positive effects." " W…
Dallas, who had pancreatic cancer, was a playwright, musician, teacher, and, most notably, a director. He led Philadelphia's Freedom Theater, one of the nation's pre-eminent African American…
Not everyone's first reaction, is it? But: "After two of her most prized paintings were stolen, Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova came face-to-face with thief Karl-Bertil Nordland i…
The musicians asked to take a 50 percent pay cut. Instead, while two-thirds of the administrative staff stayed on with a 20 percent pay cut, "the board opted to temporarily stand down its mu…
Honestly, we don't know yet " but we do know that every past crisis has changed our urban lives and architecture. Some changes may be good, but others? Horrible to contemplate. Still: "If th…
Some things may change until there's a vaccine " constant testing, small pods of workers instead of a huge crew, no craft services table " but others, like board meetings by Zoom, are here t…