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OK, where they printed money, a museum of the Mint " but not in the mint. Real estate is everything in San Francisco- San Francisco Chronicle
It's a little weird " well, one might call it something other than weird, but it also is weird " that Lauren Gunderson, the most produced playwright in the U.S. aside from Shakespeare, hasn'…
Even if you see social media platforms as something more akin to a public utility, not all speech is protected under the First Amendment anyway. Libel, incitement of violence and child porno…
"We talk about addiction, but when it comes to Candy Crush, really? Facebook? We're not freebasing Facebook. We're not injecting Instagram here," Mr. Eyal said one morning over croissants at…
Wherever authoritarian regimes are growing in strength, from Brazil, to Hungary, to the Philippines, literature that expresses any kind of political opposition is under a unique, renewed thr…
"In our post-truth age of casual lies, fake news and alternative facts, society is under extraordinary pressure from those pushing potentially dangerous antiscientific propaganda " ranging f…
Just a few nights after Anne-Sophie Mutter stopped a concert to tell a woman in the front row to stop filming, actor Joshua Henry, star of a new Off Broadway musical called The Wrong Man, tr…
Print? What is that? "What was once seen as a tool to pull in daily customers is increasingly seen as something taking up valuable floor and counter space." " Nieman Lab
Projection design is that cool part of theatre where " poof! " an entire kingdom can freeze over, as in the Broadway and touring versions of Frozen, or where, in Anastasia, "a stage-spann…
Though they were shadowed by AIDS, the two works might feel contemporary in 2019. "Baldwin's primary theme is described by the author thusly: 'Forays, frontiers, and flags are useless. No…
Portman's acting life, of course, has been marked not just by Marvel movies but by that other huge franchise, Star Wars. She likes meatier roles as well, but she says, "I love getting to be …
Russian oligarchs have sat on the board of the Guggenheim and given money to the Kennedy Center. They've funded the New Museum and historic parks in the U.S. At least, they've done all that …
Garbo wrote to her best friend, "It is hard and sad to be alone, but sometimes it's even more difficult to be with someone … When we are here on Earth it would be so much more kind if for …
The thirty-eighth episode of Three on the Aisle, the (usually) twice-monthly podcast in which Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I talk about theater in America, is now available on …
An excerpt from Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer, a 1987 documentary directed by Amram Nowak. In this scene, Singer is seen returning to Coney Island and Brighton Be…
"When a book is boring, they yawn openly, without any shame or fear of authority. They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not…
Feinstein was 88. She'd published more than a dozen poetry collections and 15 novels, translated Russian poets and wrote biographies of Ted Hughes and Bessie Smith. "Feinstein often explored…
But where are the other parts of the Wall of Scribes? And how did someone (or someones, or a syndicate, who knows?) steal the bronze sculpture in 1969? " Los Angeles Times
How, why, and why is Nancy so hard to adapt to the screen? "Never out of print, she has appeared in more than 250 books and counting, in movies, on television shows, in CD-ROM games. She has…
And the results are almost in; the museum reopens on Monday, with much pomp, a lot of new paint, and a ton of QR codes. " BBC
Vu Le: "Our sector talks a lot about grants. … There are endless articles and workshops on how to increase your chances to get grants. And many foundations, to their credit, have been work…
"The Arts and Activism ColLABoration, a pilot project funded jointly by The CrossCurrents and Compton Foundations to support the work of artists in partnership with organizers and activist o…
"There are about 5 million households in rural areas without broadband internet … [and] there are 15 million households outside of rural America where people don't have broadband internet.…
Elizabeth Merritt: "All too often the decisions we make as individuals, companies, or countries are only good decisions if examined in a very short time frame. I call this phenomenon tempora…
"For more than two decades, Imani Winds, founded by the composer and flutist Valerie Coleman, has been unfolding different perspectives in its concerts, juxtaposing Bach with John Coltrane, …
