Art and Culture

There’s a new way to distract oneself while donating blood – to play immersive virtual reality games. And the games’s soundtracks? “Abbott commissioned the Chicago Symphony Orchestra … to record them in a whirlwind,…
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“Antic yet elegant, Mr. van Reigersberg was closely associated with two important strands of 21st-century performance: devised physical theater — in which an ensemble works together to create a script through improvisation — and a…
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As the men’s World Cup gets underway, LA’s Holocaust Museum has a show on the “beautiful game” that “shines a light on the important but largely overlooked relationship between Jewish life and the global game” – and how WWII…
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Modern life has fried our attention spans. Could flexing our long term memory muscles help? NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks to actor William Sutton, who knows all 154 Shakespearian sonnets by heart.…
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Or more specifically, in one song: “Sunday.” – The New York Times Source link
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Episode Notes On today’s bonus episode, host Kate Lindsay and producer Vic Whitley-Berry talk about yet another scandal on the bookish internet. Business owner Allie Rose – also known as Allie Rose Co. on Instagram –…
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“‘He loved the sunlight, the weather, the boys,’ said Richard Benefield, a veteran museum executive who served as the first director of the David Hockney Foundation.” – The New York Times Source link
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Said one presenter at the Canadian screen awards, “A country that doesn’t tell its own stories in its own way is just a market for someone else, and we’re better than that.” – The New York Times Source link
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Gene Shalit, the fun-loving film critic on the Today show known for his oversized mustache, out-of-control mop of black hair and lively use of puns in his movie reviews, died Friday. He was 100. Shalit, a mainstay on the NBC…
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Zadie SmithMargaret Busby’s Part of the Story: Writings from Half a Century is the record of one woman’s lifelong passion for the literature and life of Africa and its diaspora, wherever she finds it. A beautiful collection. The funniest…
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