Says Claude Romano, a French philosopher, "One can be tempted to read in order to escape, but one can also read to fully inhabit the present moment and make it the space of a meditation." Th…
Sepúlveda, who died of complications from Covid-19 in Spain, was imprisoned by the Chilean dictator's regime and then was released to house arrest before he escaped, living underground fo…
And that's a drive-in in Ocala, Florida. (Of course it's Florida.) "the Ocala drive-in made up the entire revenue of the top-grossing film of last weekend, Swallow, which brought in $1,710."…
The world got louder, and so did the orchestra. After all, "before the Industrial Revolution, the principal sources of noise were thunder, church bells and cannon fire." " The New York Times
It's hard to describe this, but basically, actress Kathryn Hahn and her family are staging Glengarry Glen Ross with American Girls dolls, filming the results, and uploading them to YouTube. …
Suddenly, La Pedrera in Barcelona went from tens of thousands of visitors per day to … no one. Ana Viladomiu is one of the few people there. "Two other tenants remain in another part of th…
Stockholm's subway system is stocked: "Since construction began in 1950, some 250 artists have decorated 94 stations across 68 miles of track." " Wired
Well, perhaps it's the perfect time. "Readers, for their part, will emerge feeling doomed"yet oddly uplifted." " The Economist
It seems unthinkable that Saturday Night Live could go on right now, but April 11's show may mark something of a milestone " and a cultural record that should prove to be invaluable for the …
The poem is made up (artfully) of lines from corporate emails. One stanza: "Feeling Fiesta today? Happy Taco Tuesday!Calories don't count during a pandemicGrocers report flour shortages as m…
Comic-book publishing, comics stores, the writers, the artists, and everyone are in serious trouble. "The industry has been throttled at every juncture. Comic-store owners have shuttered the…
When there's another pandemic, your theatre can be the one making history with broadcasts on YouTube or, who knows, something on Quibi. " The Stage (UK)
Wellbeing isn't individual; it's social. And in this, the Great Pause, we see that "It's not quite a revolution, but it's an epic conceptual awakening. … In some ways it's like a blissed-o…
The opera singer says that the lyric arts are particularly at risk with the shutdown, and he addresses President Macron directly in his column. "I speak on behalf of troubadours and acrobats…
Well, why not? The original essayist might be the way to go. "On Solitude is one of Montaigne's many small masterpieces. It's an essay, typically short and, as always, disarmingly conversati…
The charity Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS was planning a stream of a November 2019 (remember those halcyon days?) concert that celebrated the 25th anniversary of Disney on Broadway. Prob…
Soprano Vuvu Mpofu grew up surrounded by music in church choirs and school, but when she first heard an aria when she was 15, "the girl plunged into the library to find out where the music c…
Artists from San Diego, Chicago, Saskatchewan, New York, and more weigh in. Dia Bassett, for instance: "With the COVID-19 pandemic, my life as a mom to a toddler is more confined. My parents…
Now it's pretty much stopping with the garden pots as well as the artists can't mentor young proteges in the studio. But the already created ceramics are serving a purpose: "We hope that by …
Deborah Roberts, 57, who was set to have her first solo show in September, says, "My daddy hated art and said it was never going to be nothing. He would say, 'What are you doing that for?' â…
Truth: "Art meme-ing has long been with us, but some mix of quarantine creativity, idle isolation and the need to connect through humor in these uncertain times is sparking a stream of misch…
The iconic San Francisco bookstore founded by Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti said in its GoFundMe appeal that it was continuing to pay salaries and health care for its employees, but that i…
The actor, who had success as a child and in her teens and early twenties, says that social isolation with her dog isn't the worst thing. "This feels like heaven in a lot of ways because I d…
Novelist Waubgeshig Rice: "It kind of blew my mind. … I wrote that plot point of Moon of the Crusted Snow just as a what if, not as a how-to guide." " CBC
The museum says it's facing a $10 million shortfall and must furlough 92 people and reduce the salaries for 85 more. The furloughed staff members, "which union officials said include about a…