Metropolitan Opera cancels upcoming live performances, will stream grand opera HD videos. Free.
Met launching Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations streamed on the Met’s website …
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Streaming tonight: Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, speaks with Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood.
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will host a conversation with Grammy Award-winning country music singer and songwriter Garth Brooks tonight, …
Video: On restoring Alexander Calder’s mobile, Red Lily Pads (1956), at the Guggenheim.
The Guggenheim’s Nathan Otterson, Senior Conservator, Objects, and Tracey Bashkoff, Director of Collections and Senior Curator, describe the demanding process …
Dulé Hill reads “As Fast As Words Could Fly.” A wonderful, thoughtful, & teachable 16 minutes.
I joined Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists—now, SAG-AFTRA—in 1972. For the past 48 …
Music subscriptions get expensive. Streams from Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center are free.
For me, the start of each New Year is a time to evaluate all of the various subscriptions that I’ve …
Explainer videos are exceptional or awful. 1950s explainers were films and usually pretty great.
Today, corporations make short explainer videos fast and on the cheap. And, most of them look it. While popular data …
Joy, Joy, Joy. And, Happy Holidays! Here’s a video visit to the 2019 Christmas Windows in New York City.
From Bergdorf to Bloomingdales and Macy’s to Saks—take a video stroll through Rockefeller Center and down Fifth Avenue. @JamesandKarla bring …
Nominations announced for the 26th Annual SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS. Here’s your printable ballot.
UPDATE: Your 2026 ballot is here. On March 8, 1998, John Lithgow took the stage and the 4th Annual Screen …
Rib roast to chop suey, ready-to-eat Christmas dinners for pick up or delivery in Baltimore: 11 suggestions.
Jacob and I always cook a big Thanksgiving dinner (Jacob is the turkey master), and for New Years Day we …
Do you trust this face to share a holiday story with your children? Marc Maron reads Turkey Trouble—it’s a joy.
It’s wonderful to belong to SAG-AFTRA, a union that does so many wonderful things for so many people, not just …
The non-linear, video chapters of an iconic business are beautifully illustrated in L’Odyssée de Cartier.
Cartier. The Maison. By taking over his master’s workshop, Louis-François Cartier founded Cartier in 1847. Since then, the iconic brand …
I’m not a big fan of Halloween, but creepy old movies are close to the top of my favorite-things list.
The Old Dark House, produced by Universal Pictures’ Carl Laemmle Jr., is one of those creepy movies. Previews began in early …
And then there was the time that I played a Secret Service Man—in a Ford commercial.
Baltimore. June 1988. Sandy Mislang produced the spot for W. B. Doner Advertising on behalf of their client, Baltimore–Washington Ford …
Wire sculptures draw attention to UK’s homeless youth through the new #NOWYOUSEEME campaign.
In the UK last year, 103,000 16-25 year-olds asked their local authority for help because they were homeless or at …
Meet the late Hilma af Klint. The New York Times calls her work “jaw dropping, staggering.”
Hilma af Klint was born in Stockholm in 1862. Af Klint started to create radically abstract paintings in 1906—years before Vasily …
A discussion with Marvin Kalb and Ted Koppel around Kalb’s new book, Enemy of the People.
This afternoon, I watched an insightful conversation hosted by Carnegie President William J. Burns It was an hour of discussion …
Longest running scripted primetime TV show, The Simpsons renewed for two more seasons.
Remember Quantum Leap with Scott Bakula & Dean Stockwell? Doesn’t it seem like an eon since that show was on the …
Painting becomes a performance—Banksy shreds self at Sotheby’s seconds after successful sale.
I’m not a fan of Banksy’s art, but his works of political and social commentary thrill me. So, I’m loving …