Explore the latest virtual content from the Getty and listen to various intriguing podcasts on topics you may not have explored before.
Something a little bit different this month — we’ve collated a series of online events for you to consider that are being held online from the Getty Museum.
Michael-John Jennings, News UK’s archive specialist, on the projects that The Times archive has been working on this month
Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar, was set to be a pillar of the establishment before dropping out to pursue country music. The singer’s greatest hits came from the years he spent as a struggling songwriter chronicling messy, itinerant lives.
‘Art has made my life magical at a time when I thought it would be unbearable,” Billy Connolly says. “My disease creeps up on me — every day it gets stranger and more different. I don’t know how I would have coped without drawing. It’s taken me out of the scene and put me somewhere else, where I can survey it from a different angle.”
The country is back in a snap Alert Level 4 lockdown to protect us all from an outbreak of COVID-19 in the community. Although this may have interrupted a weekend of plans, it does present us all with a very important opportunity: catch up on everything we wanted to watch but were too busy to see!
Here’s our list of “things we now have time to watch” on New Zealand streaming platforms.
We’re in awards season. It’s a stretched out awards season, but time has become meaningless lately, what with covid, vaccination roll-outs, pay freezes for three years, and the ordinary hum-drum of too much work and too little time to do it in. Speaking of time, why not spend two or three hours in the cinema, alone or with loved ones, and lose yourself in another world?
While the world of scurvy, seasickness, and sailing the high seas with a limb having been blasted off by a cannonball is clearly a far cry from the experience of many, there is something in these stoic calls to endurance that is resonating, especially now during the world’s long voyage to pandemic freedom.
Guest collaborators, led by John Quigley, our music coach, have created the 2020 JANZ Christmas Music List. Love it or hate it, this mix of Bubble and Bing always hits the airwaves around now.
