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Ballet Brawl: Don’t Miss This Week’s Top AJ Arts Stories (04.17.16)

TOP STORIES Posted: April 17, 2016 9:09 pm

This week, a groundbreaking deal for Broadway actors and dancers, James Levine finally decides to retire from the Met Opera, a debacle at the National Ballet of Romania that quickly escalated to involve the country’s Prime Minister, a warning about fetishizing “creativity” as the key to success, and a cautionary question about what machine intelligence might look like.

Read the story in diacritical | Douglas McLennan Published: 04.17.16

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