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"Only when one's friends die and one accompanies them to the grave's edge does one realise precisely what they have meant to one."
James Lees-Milne, diary, March 25, 1977
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There's something a bit ho-hum, mean and pinched about the reception of Sir Tom Stoppard's new (and, he says, perhaps final play), Leopoldstadt. " Paul Levy
Alongside the the wonderful, illuminating dance criticism she wrote for decades, she wrote wonderfully well about fashion, and only when I became a mother did I realize that while Tobi was r…
Tobi was among the first group of writers I invited to blog on ArtsJournal. I had read her for years and appreciated her elegance, clarity and erudition. Though her judgments were crisp, the…
Specifically, the Ice Cream "Museum," which is all about shareable selfies. After all, what's the point of going if not to take appealing pictures? " New York Magazine
Some 49% of these respondents say use of technology will mostly weaken core aspects of democracy and democratic representation in the next decade, 33% say use of technology will mostly stren…
"The U.S. government made us paper Indians " our ancestors are here," Jack proclaimed last week at Sand Point. To close and remove the archives is to physically remove the ancestors (word is…
One of the nation's most prestigious movie houses, Indiana University Cinema (IU Cinema) presents and examines the world's most entertaining, fascinating, and thought-provoking films and inv…
Increasingly, I'm hearing from politicians, activists, and people like my journalist friend who say that maybe we 1990s-era internet activists blew it. The story goes that we were so shortsi…
Two days before Weizman, a professor at London's Goldsmiths College, was due to fly to the US from Britain, he received an email from the US Embassy telling him that the visa waiver on his B…
The return to piracy is both a bit of a meme and a bit of a reality. And its return is absolutely the result of a market that giant companies have built to intentionally trap customers into …
"This turn of events has been both somehow shocking and predictable. In June of 2019, archaeologists surveyed some of the area awaiting construction, which would include replacing existing f…
Greece and Britain have the opportunity to renew their respective stories by leading the way in creating a museum for the 21st century. How it would be organised would be open to discussions…
Recent debates have tended to confuse rather than clarify matters. In left-of-center discourse, "liberalism" and "leftism" are often invoked as respective shorthand for neoliberalism and soc…
Camila Prins says she first realized she wanted to be a woman at a Carnival party at age 11, when, like the other boys, she was allowed to dress like a girl as part of the burlesque festivit…
Once, Michael Lind observes, "trade unions, participatory political parties, and religious and civic organizations compelled university-educated managerial elites to share power with them or…
The sheer profusion of actors online has foreclosed their need to be real at all: the armies of bots and the Russian sockpuppets, the corporate tweeps and the AI deepfakes. One can just as e…
" It's time to get our heads out of our collective asses and wake up to the fact that having a New York zip code does not make you a better actor by default. Nor does wanting a better qu…
The Earth Harp is a massive stringed instrument that its inventor, William Close, says makes audiences feel like they're "inside the instrument" during performances. Indeed, because he has t…
Over the last few years a pool of Italian biologists, anthropologists and geochemists conducted a series of forensic tests on the skull and accompanying lower mandible, which were unearthed …
In the 1950s and '60s, Elmyr de Hory is believed to have forged over a thousand works by major artists. Many have been removed from museums. Others, some experts say, have not. Mark Forgy ha…
The dancers, including lead dancer Wu Husheng, aren't finding it easy to train and rehearse with masks on. "Wu, 33, says he can normally train for an hour at a time, but he feels breathle…
The objection: "The series depicts fictional atrocities taking place in Nazi death camps, including a game of human chess in which people are killed when a piece is taken off the board." And…
At least, that's true in Australia, according to the results of a recent survey. The more services you subscribed to, the more likely you were to pirate. That's a little weird, right? Well â…
And it's Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House, almost destroyed in the 1940s. " Los Angeles Times
