Hepworth has, for decades, been thought of as a cold and uncaring parent who sent her triplets away when they were four months old so she could get some work done. Surprise: The letters tell…
Margalit Fox: "Beard, a New York photographer, artist and naturalist to whom the word 'wild' was roundly applied, both for his death-defying photographs of African wildlife and for his own m…
Shooting may not resume until at least August for most productions " or it may be far later " but while most everyone in cast, crew, and production teams are out of work, some are franticall…
Before Twitter, before 24-hour cable news, before instantaneous visual information flooding our lives, there was the poster. "Produced and displayed on a massive scale, these posters used a …
Hazama, in this podcast: "My main study back in Japan was to be a film composer. But at the time, computer was taking over the entire industry. My thing was to write for acoustic musicians, …
Zadie Smith, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, Marilynne Robinson, Tayari Jones, and many more winners of what used to be the Orange Prize explain what it does. Ann Patchett: "Even now, I'll be dust…
Contemplating Giotto as the virus closes in, the author says, "Assisi is a city where religious pilgrims come to pray, study, and convene. Before the virus, nuns, priests, monks, and friers …
After the Italian shutdown, Marchini immediately "went viral" (but in a good, pre-Covid-19 way) when he performed from his balcony on March 13. He didn't even know it because, he says, "I'm …
Are blockbusters over? Can galleries survive, and, if they do, will they be more important than museums? And can art-world social media come back from the thirsty ferret tweet? " The Guardia…
What started as a jokey way to help fellow cast members share dance moves turned into an emotionally moving performance with 44 different cast members dancing everywhere " alone with masks o…
Bailey, who taught at the Yale School of Art for decades, created "pristine, idealized still lifes and female nudes [that] made him one of the leading figures in the return of figurative art…
Of course, streaming services are dominating at the moment for whenever the industry can start shooting again. "The market is active enough that even companies with stacked-up development sl…
As they fight viral virus misinformation, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others are making some choices that, while they may be good for public health in the short term, have some First Amen…
Greenwell, the author of What Belongs to You and Cleanness, compares his new book to Schubert's Winterreise and says, "It's not that I think writing sex explicitly is in and of itself intere…
The Tesla Quartet, founded in 2008, was doing OK, even well, at last. "The four players, aged 34 to 38, have long relied on relatives, friends and concert presenters for temporary housing, w…
Turns out that many actors, writers, and producers were already in theatre " and that balancing the arts and sciences came naturally. Now that it's all science, and all terrifying, they're s…
It's going to be quite some time. Why? "'New York and Los Angeles are going to take a lot more time [to reopen] than Montana,' predicts Jeff Bock, a box office analyst with Exhibitor Relatio…
The tapestry, which depicts in 100 medieval panels the Book of Revelations, is a vivid glimpse into how people lived through plague and war. And: "It is remarkable that the tapestry still ex…
The hosts of the podcast Were You Raised by Wolves? used to answer questions about the etiquette of using your cell phone flashlight to read restaurant menus. Then things they answered at th…
The MinaLima Studio worked on the Potter movies, founded a popup gallery that has become permanent, and now designs not only the Fantastic Beast movies but also fairy tales and a variety of …
Ficre Ghebreyesus, a chef who combined Eritrean and Ethiopian food, kept a studio where he painted, but didn't exhibit his work. His widow: "The thing that was cool about Ficre as a chef is …
In other words, they weren't going to issue refunds " but the "everyone" who was furious started to include lawmakers, things changed (to be clear, the company claims the change had been in …
The actor, a Tony nominee and Broadway regular, has been through a lot while fighting the virus. Now, doctors had to amputate his right leg to stop clotting. " Variety
Mountains were long thought to be impermeable barriers between ancient communities " but this one, with finds ranging from horseshoes and sleds to wool tunics and mittens, is one of many pas…
This is not a great time for writers (or anyone else, of course). Before this plot twist, "many were predicting writers would stage their first walkout since 2007, but WGA leaders recently t…