Yearly Archives: 2023
The Frankfurt Book Fair Has A Long History Of Political Calculation
A commercial book fair might not immediately seem a site of position-taking, but as we discovered when researching our book, The Frankfurt Book Fair...
Alessandra Ferri Will Be The Next Director Of The Vienna State Ballet
The former prima ballerina at La Scala and international star will succeed Martin Schläpfer (who decided not to renew his three-year contract) at the...
Staff At 92nd Street Y Quit After Cancellation Of Author Event
Staff from The 92nd Street Y, New York are resigning, after the storied cultural hub abruptly halted a scheduled reading by author Viet Thanh...
Dayton Ballet’s New Artistic Director At Work
"It’s 10 a.m. on a Wednesday morning and 18 dancers are leaping, jumping and twirling in the Dayton Ballet studio. … 'Reach, reach, good!'...
State Of Florida Turns To U.S. Supreme Court To Protect Anti-Drag Law
"Florida officials filed an application with the nation’s highest court on Friday asking that the prohibition against enforcing the anti-drag show law only be...
Dallas Museum Of Art Lays Off 20 Employees And Reduces Opening Hours
The redundancies, along with closing the museum to the public on Tuesdays as well as Mondays, come as the DMA plans over $200 million...
Chicago Opera Theater Music Director Lidiya Yankovskaya Is Stepping Down
She will complete her seven-year term at the end of this season, though she will remain director of the company's Vanguard Initiative for emerging...
Intimacy Coordination Comes To Spain For The First Time, At Barcelona’s Opera House
Ita O'Brien, who helped launch the profession in Great Britain, is at the Gran Teatre del Liceu working on the European premiere of John...
Richard Roundtree, Star Of “Shaft”, “Man Friday”, And “Roots”, Is Dead At 81
"Dubbed the first Black action hero, Roundtree became one of the faces of the 1970s blaxploitation movement when he starred as the street-smart New...
The Evolving Notion Of Fame For Artists
Unlike El Greco or Van Gogh, very few artists are household names these days. Fame in the art world is about having currency in...
When Musicians’ Bodies Turn On Them
The term dystonia is rooted in the Latin prefix dys, or difficulty, and tonus, meaning tone or tension. It refers to involuntary disruptions in muscle tone...
The Top Classical Music Radio Station In America? It’s In Portland Oregon
“We’ve received our ratings from Nielsen, and they said it is not even close,” said All Classical’s President and CEO Suzanne Nance. “We’ve been...
A Northern Ireland Orchestra: Peace Through Music
The key aim was to use music to connect young people from Catholic and Protestant backgrounds on both sides of the Irish border. Almost...
Study: Why Art Seems Better When You See Something Of Yourself In It
A recent set of studies in the journal Psychological Science suggests that a more personal factor – specifically, how much a piece of art seems to relate, in...
CBC Ditched ExTwitter. Didn’t Make Much Difference
"The audience and engagement that we get from X is small. Among our social media platforms, X is among the smallest sources of traffic,"...
Why Does The California Arts Council Keep Changing Its Funding Guidelines Without Warning?
Since 2021, the agency has given general operations funding only to organizations with budgets under $250,000. In March, the CAC lifted that cap —...
Americans Are Cutting Back Their Streaming Subscriptions
Reports said that many Americans were paying for up to six streaming services. Since then, numbers have mostly returned to pre-pandemic with Americans paying...
I Reviewed The Most Popular Artist On Social Media. His Followers Came After Me....
Devon Rodriguez, known for his live drawings of subway riders, has millions of fans on Instagram and TikTok. Ben Davis reviewed Rodriguez's first solo...
Cleveland Museum Of Art Sues Feds To Block Seizure Of Ancient Sculpture
The lawsuit comes two months after a New York judge issued a search warrant citing “reasonable cause” to believe the statue, which was legally...
The Wealthy San Francisco Matron Who Transformed Modern Study Of The Aztecs
"(Zelia Nuttall) was the first to decode the Aztec calendar and identify the purposes of ancient adornments and weapons. She untangled the organization of...
New Tool Lets Artists “Poison” Their Images At The Pixel Level To Thwart AI
Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering...
Washington Ballet Names A New Artistic Director
"Edwaard Liang comes to Washington after spending the past decade as artistic director of BalletMet, an esteemed midsize company in Columbus, Ohio. He is...
The Twisty-Turny Saga Of The British Museum Thefts
So began an antiques whodunit—whose cast of characters includes an Oxford-based priest-cum-archaeologist, a handful of rare-gem dealers and some of the British Museum’s most...
Why Investing In A Broadway Production Is Like Investing In A Tech Startup
The Indicator podcast from NPR's Planet Money features a tech exec-turned-Broadway producer who says that "the industry fully functions like venture capital. If you...
Steven Lutvak, Composer Of “A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder,” Is Dead At...
"Over the years, Mr. Lutvak wrote several musicals that were staged in regional theaters and Off-Off-Broadway. But none were nearly as successful as A...
