Working with a physician and several dancers, Lynne Charles (who had a 35-year-career as a principal ballerina) developed 4Pointe, a somatic method to strengthen specific muscles for pointe work. “It’s not meant to replace traditional pointe class,” she stresses. “It’s meant to go hand-in-hand alongside it, like Pilates or Gyrotonic.” - Pointe Magazine
Headlines focus on that tiny segment of the arts that garners extraordinary numbers (whether readers, audience members, or dollars). The lucky writers and performers are ultimately discovered and rewarded with untold riches and rewards. But what about those creative people—many quite talented, a few geniuses—who struggle to have their work recognized? - Nightingale Sonata
“In the months and years since the siege that destroyed it, the city has been turned into a showcase of the concept of the ‘Russian world’ — an idea of Russia as encompassing nations in its former sphere of influence — and an exemplary model of forced Russification.” - The Dial
Israel’s recent participation has been a divisive issue in Europe and its broadcasting community ever since Israel began its military campaign in Gaza Strip in late 2023. - Deadline
It sounds like boot camp. An 89.5 hour workweek. Back to back 14 hour days. Overtime pay a rarity (and lack thereof legally sanctioned). Working in a warehouse where temperatures exceeded 100. Bullying. - Broadway World
“Since its launch in February 2024, (the station’s) JazzNEO (channel) has been operating without a dedicated studio and airing all pre-recorded programming. The new state-of-the-art space will allow for live hosting, interviews, and live jazz performances.” - Inside Radio
“Twenty years ago, YouTube launched with the idea that everyone should have the opportunity to create and find a global stage. Since then, we’ve seen creators shape culture and entertainment in ways we never thought possible." - Deadline
The digital froth of the 2010s—BuzzFeed, Upworthy, the ceaseless click-baiting and SEO-hunting—could be understood as a Bronze Age, and we are now after the fall, in a new era we can’t quite name yet. Literary prestige, for one, has never meant less. - Ross Elliot Barkan
In recent years, a group of YouTubers and podcasters have attracted millions of viewers by proclaiming that physics is in crisis. The field, they argue, has discovered little of importance in the last 50 years, because it is dominated by groupthink and silences anyone who dares to dissent from mainstream ideas, like string theory. - The...
“The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, according to four people familiar with the matter, including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back.” - The Washington Post
Definitions, professional and amateur, are a click away, and most people don’t care or can’t tell whether what pops up in a search is expert research, crowdsourced jottings, scraped data, or zombie websites. - The Atlantic
They are "an estimated $400 million trove amassed by Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder, and an estimated $80 million collection from the Chicago billionaires behind the Pritzker Architecture Prize." - The Wall Street Journal
In some recovery programs, “one day at a time” is a mantra. This is a little like what E. L. Doctorow said about being a novelist: Writing a novel “is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” - The New Yorker
A reporter crunches some numbers and looks at the basic operation of The Brick, a 54-seat theater in a former auto-repair shop in the Williamsburg neighborhood. The Brick (which presents outside work rather than producing its own) hosts over 200 performances a year on an annual budget of $558,400. - The New York Times
“His wavy blond hair and boyish grin made him the most desired of leading men, but he worked hard to transcend his looks — whether through his political advocacy, his willingness to take on unglamorous roles or his dedication to providing a platform for low-budget movies.” - AP
Photos and video show the museum’s courtyard littered with rubble; while doors and windows were blown out, the building is standing. The museum reopened two years ago after a decade-long closure due to the Yemeni civil war. Israel has been in conflict with the country’s Houthi rebels since the Gaza war began. - ARTnews
In 2020, the magazine published a story by freelance journalist Ruth Shalit Barrett about wealthy parents pushing their children into niche sports to gain an edge in college admissions. After a media columnist spotted some factual issues, The Atlantic retracted the story entirely, and Barrett sued for defamation and reputational damage. - TheWrap (Yahoo!)
A committee of Trustees of the university, which owns and operates the station, unanimously rejected a plan to transfer ownership of the station licenses to Philadelphia station WHYY for $1. WPSU-TV reaches 515,000 households in 24 Pennsylvania counties; WPSU-FM serves more than 450,000 listeners. - Centre Daily Times (State College, PA)
“The Library (of Congress) announced Monday that the 74-year-old Sze had been appointed to a one-year term, starting this fall. The author of 12 poetry collections and recipient last year of a lifetime achievement award from the library, he succeeds Ada Limón, who had served for three years.” - AP
“The workforce reduction includes layoffs of 12 active workers and the elimination of nine vacant positions, representing approximately 5% of the employee roster of more than 400 staff. … WETA also canceled its local television shows If You Lived Here, Get Out of Town and WETA Best Bets.” - Current
In some recovery programs, “one day at a time” is a mantra. This is a little like what E. L. Doctorow said about being a novelist: Writing a novel “is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” - The New Yorker
The quality of stupidity is just, sort of, there; and there’s lots of it. Could you write a history of happiness, or bad luck, or knees? - The Guardian
We tend to think that we perceive reality as it is, with cameralike eyes that objectively log the light that hits them. But as information from the eyes flows into the brain, it becomes more abstract and subjective. - Scientific American
“In recent years, Americans have drifted away from many of their once-beloved sources of pleasure: drinking, throwing parties, having sex, making friends. Yet they keep coming back to theme parks.” - The Atlantic
Hopwood DePree "grew up listening to stories of the family’s ancestral home in England, but believed them to be fairytales, until he began researching his family tree online, and discovered his Manchester roots.” - The Guardian (UK)
“Paris, the centre of French gastronomy, has never been in more need of a great restaurant critic. Today, the Parisian food media scene has become a never-ending circle of new restaurants hyped for a couple of weeks before the next ones come in.” - Vittles
Headlines focus on that tiny segment of the arts that garners extraordinary numbers (whether readers, audience members, or dollars). The lucky writers and performers are ultimately discovered and rewarded with untold riches and rewards. But what about those creative people—many quite talented, a few geniuses—who struggle to have their work recognized? - Nightingale Sonata
“In the months and years since the siege that destroyed it, the city has been turned into a showcase of the concept of the ‘Russian world’ — an idea of Russia as encompassing nations in its former sphere of influence — and an exemplary model of forced Russification.” - The Dial
In recent years, a group of YouTubers and podcasters have attracted millions of viewers by proclaiming that physics is in crisis. The field, they argue, has discovered little of importance in the last 50 years, because it is dominated by groupthink and silences anyone who dares to dissent from mainstream ideas, like string theory....
We are again confronting a massive attack on the very foundations of democratic education and, this time around, the stakes feel even higher. In the 1950s, the targets were individual teachers—communists, progressives, liberals—and their left-wing unions. Now the target is the system itself. - Boston Review
This year, it will present over 700 shows across its stages, from pop music to Broadway musicals and seemingly everything in between. In recent years, it’s earned more revenue than Seattle Opera, Seattle Symphony and Pacific Northwest Ballet combined. - Seattle Times
Teacher evaluations are a big part of how higher education got to this point. The scores factor into academics’ pay, hiring, and chance to get tenure. But maximizing teacher ratings is very different from providing quality instruction. In fact, those aims are largely opposed. - The Atlantic
Israel’s recent participation has been a divisive issue in Europe and its broadcasting community ever since Israel began its military campaign in Gaza Strip in late 2023. - Deadline
It sounds like boot camp. An 89.5 hour workweek. Back to back 14 hour days. Overtime pay a rarity (and lack thereof legally sanctioned). Working in a warehouse where temperatures exceeded 100. Bullying. - Broadway World
The whole place exudes the ethos of Pärt, whose music demands love and dedication from its interpreters yet almost nothing of its listeners, offering a timeless sound redolent of both the Renaissance and modern Minimalism, and capable of touching casual audiences and avant-gardists alike. - The New York Times
Sadly, “if you put one of the new tapes into an old-fashioned Walkman, it won’t produce any meaningful sound, because the DNA cassette doesn’t use the magnetic signals of its predecessor.” - New Scientist (Archive Today)
“In the last decade, after academics at the University of Southampton in England digitized the sheet music collection of Austen and her family, more and more people are turning to the music for new perspectives on her life and work.” - The New York Times
“The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, according to four people familiar with the matter, including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back.” - The Washington Post
They are "an estimated $400 million trove amassed by Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder, and an estimated $80 million collection from the Chicago billionaires behind the Pritzker Architecture Prize." - The Wall Street Journal
Photos and video show the museum’s courtyard littered with rubble; while doors and windows were blown out, the building is standing. The museum reopened two years ago after a decade-long closure due to the Yemeni civil war. Israel has been in conflict with the country’s Houthi rebels since the Gaza war began. - ARTnews
Herzog & de Meuron has designed a deliberately “irrational” exhibition space, set largely below the Parkway and sheathed in reflecting steel, so that the building vanishes into air (as architects like to say), mirroring the gardens around it rather than asserting its own profile. - The New Yorker
A nonprofit, the Monuments Men and Women Foundation, received a tip that the art was on the auction block in Ohio, and went into action. - The New York Times
The digital froth of the 2010s—BuzzFeed, Upworthy, the ceaseless click-baiting and SEO-hunting—could be understood as a Bronze Age, and we are now after the fall, in a new era we can’t quite name yet. Literary prestige, for one, has never meant less. - Ross Elliot Barkan
Definitions, professional and amateur, are a click away, and most people don’t care or can’t tell whether what pops up in a search is expert research, crowdsourced jottings, scraped data, or zombie websites. - The Atlantic
In 2020, the magazine published a story by freelance journalist Ruth Shalit Barrett about wealthy parents pushing their children into niche sports to gain an edge in college admissions. After a media columnist spotted some factual issues, The Atlantic retracted the story entirely, and Barrett sued for defamation and reputational damage. - TheWrap (Yahoo!)
“The Library (of Congress) announced Monday that the 74-year-old Sze had been appointed to a one-year term, starting this fall. The author of 12 poetry collections and recipient last year of a lifetime achievement award from the library, he succeeds Ada Limón, who had served for three years.” - AP
For one thing, “the real challenge isn’t technology itself, but how technology has evolved to actively compete with the very cognitive processes that reading requires.” - LitHub
"Dictionary content is expensive. … The cost of lexicographers—people are expensive, and the output is low. It is very difficult to justify that just for the sake of completism. You will never have enough staff to keep up. People are too productive in the creation of language.” - The Atlantic
“Since its launch in February 2024, (the station’s) JazzNEO (channel) has been operating without a dedicated studio and airing all pre-recorded programming. The new state-of-the-art space will allow for live hosting, interviews, and live jazz performances.” - Inside Radio
“Twenty years ago, YouTube launched with the idea that everyone should have the opportunity to create and find a global stage. Since then, we’ve seen creators shape culture and entertainment in ways we never thought possible." - Deadline
A committee of Trustees of the university, which owns and operates the station, unanimously rejected a plan to transfer ownership of the station licenses to Philadelphia station WHYY for $1. WPSU-TV reaches 515,000 households in 24 Pennsylvania counties; WPSU-FM serves more than 450,000 listeners. - Centre Daily Times (State College, PA)
“The workforce reduction includes layoffs of 12 active workers and the elimination of nine vacant positions, representing approximately 5% of the employee roster of more than 400 staff. … WETA also canceled its local television shows If You Lived Here, Get Out of Town and WETA Best Bets.” - Current
Is a showing of Back to the Future or Jaws something like a ballet company’s Nutcracker - dependable money for a theatre, with a nostalgic gloss for audience childhoods or young adult lives? - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Working with a physician and several dancers, Lynne Charles (who had a 35-year-career as a principal ballerina) developed 4Pointe, a somatic method to strengthen specific muscles for pointe work. “It’s not meant to replace traditional pointe class,” she stresses. “It’s meant to go hand-in-hand alongside it, like Pilates or Gyrotonic.” - Pointe Magazine
Universally, there is an urgent call for dance’s back offices to approach funding with the same creativity, vitality, and care that goes into artistic decision-making. - Dance Magazine
“Many from the Ballet Nacional are quietly choosing to leave behind difficult conditions: Blackouts that make rehearsal spaces and exercise rooms swelteringly hot. Scarce medical supplies. Pointe shoes stuck in customs for months.” - The New York Times
Choreographer Joshua Beamish is the founding director of Ballet Vancouver, which, like Ballet BC and Goh Ballet, will focus on contemporary choreography. The company will present a home season and tour internationally. - Vancouver Sun (Yahoo!)
Earlier this year, the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), which administers the grant, announced that a lead funder, the Mellon Foundation, would no longer support the grant after this year. - NPR
“I was at the Schauspielhaus Zürich … as the new artistic director. I didn’t have to write a proposal for a piece, and I had a lot of resources. I went into the studio with the dancers with no theme. … What does it mean to have this kind of artistic freedom?” - Dance...
A reporter crunches some numbers and looks at the basic operation of The Brick, a 54-seat theater in a former auto-repair shop in the Williamsburg neighborhood. The Brick (which presents outside work rather than producing its own) hosts over 200 performances a year on an annual budget of $558,400. - The New York Times
Many of the TikToks “deliberately portray as a stereotypical bad boyfriend or spouse with wandering eyes. Some are more explicit, like one in which Hamilton appears to be taking a sexy selfie when interrupted by Eliza.” - The New York Times
“The new-play results nationwide and in New York are very close to parity after all, while the all-play results, which include all the Shakespeares and Dickenses, are closer to the old 60/40 divide we were used to seeing about a decade ago.” - American Theatre
The only truly good news from the report: Performing arts was “the sector with more increased attendance over the past year than libraries, community, and educational organizations.” - American Theatre
Two years ago A24 bought the Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan’s West Village for $10 million; following a thorough remodeling, the house has reopened this week. A24 plans to keep programming theatrical productions in the 166-seat theater, alongside music and a film series with talkbacks hosted by Sofia Coppola. - The Hollywood Reporter
Troubadour Theatres, which already has locations at Wembley Park and Canary Wharf (opening next month), is building the Troubadour Greenwich Peninsula Theatre, which will contain two 1,500-seat auditoriums and is expected to open next fall. - WhatsOnStage (UK)
“His wavy blond hair and boyish grin made him the most desired of leading men, but he worked hard to transcend his looks — whether through his political advocacy, his willingness to take on unglamorous roles or his dedication to providing a platform for low-budget movies.” - AP
“King’s improvisational skills were formidable, even by the standards of a music built on improvisation. ... She would rearrange songs on the fly, and she often slipped from lyrics to scat singing. Her range was equally impressive.” - The New York Times
Rugoff is most famous internationally for his 2019 Biennale, which saw the 79 artists included—a relatively low number for the world’s biggest art festival—each show at least two works in two different locations. - ARTnews
“It just seems like such grandiose gibberish to talk about. I never intended to retire, really. I just stopped doing that particular type of work so I could do some other work. … Looking back on it now – I would have done well to just keep my mouth shut.” - The Guardian
André Breton’s official reason for expelling Dalí was that he was racist and fascist, but Breton also despised the Spaniard’s flamboyant bravado and unapologetic appetite for money. Indeed, to mock Dalí’s mercenary streak, Breton and his fellows made an anagram of Dalí’s name that, today, would surely be his drag name. - Artnet
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“His wavy blond hair and boyish grin made him the most desired of leading men, but he worked hard to transcend his looks — whether through his political advocacy, his willingness to take on unglamorous roles or his dedication to providing a platform for low-budget movies.” - AP
"Dictionary content is expensive. … The cost of lexicographers—people are expensive, and the output is low. It is very difficult to justify that just for the sake of completism. You will never have enough staff to keep up. People are too productive in the creation of language.” - The Atlantic
“The company claims that the AI Overviews that often appear at the top of search results leave users with little reason to click through to the source, hurting traffic and illegally benefitting from the work of its reporters.” - The Verge
A nonprofit, the Monuments Men and Women Foundation, received a tip that the art was on the auction block in Ohio, and went into action. - The New York Times
“In the last decade, after academics at the University of Southampton in England digitized the sheet music collection of Austen and her family, more and more people are turning to the music for new perspectives on her life and work.” - The New York Times
“Paris, the centre of French gastronomy, has never been in more need of a great restaurant critic. Today, the Parisian food media scene has become a never-ending circle of new restaurants hyped for a couple of weeks before the next ones come in.” - Vittles
The confirmation is tucked into a profile of the wildly popular composer, who has been in poor health and is reportedly developing dementia. - The New York Times
A music scholar explains how the artistic formula — famously described by the composer’s wife, Nora, as “1+1=1” — gets translated into the notes in a score. - The Conversation
The victim of the latest staff defenestration (a frequent phenomenon since Trump took over the arts center in February) was Kevin Struthers, whose title was senior director, music programming. A Kennedy Center spokesperson confirmed Struthers’s termination but gave no reason. - The Washington Post (MSN)
“Britain’s National Gallery announced Tuesday that it will use a whopping £375 million ($510 million) in donations to open a new wing that, for the first time, will include modern art, … to be constructed on land beside its Trafalgar Square site that is currently occupied by a hotel and offices.” - AP
“Government websites are stripping away references to trans people, history, and art. Book bans are targeting trans authors in conservative states, eradicating their work from curricula and library circulation.” And then there’s the NEA. - The New Yorker
At the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest, Hungary, "about 20,000 books and many valuable manuscripts have been missing since the end of World War II.” But some books have, with great effort and care, made their way back. - The New York Times
