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A Labor Economist Looks At Opera And Says It Isn’t Dying (But Its Business...
Christos Makridis of Arizona State University: “I found the public’s demand for meaningful, live cultural experiences — including opera — remains strong. … (But)...
There’s More Footage Of The Jewelry Robbery At The Louvre — And It Looks...
“The two perpetrators can be seen wearing balaclavas and using disc cutters to slice open display cases. The theft takes place under the watch...
A Look At Opera’s Sexiest Tune, With Its Reigning Singer
Mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina on the Habanera from Bizet’s Carmen. - The New York Times
Maybe Listening To An Audiobook Really Is As Good As Reading A Print Book
“Is listening to a book while doing the dishes, walking the dog or drifting off to sleep really as valuable as sitting down to...
So This Is Donald Trump’s “Golden Age of Culture” …
“Trolling and tackiness, often crossbred with left-coded pop songs and hot memes, have served to wish a new zeitgeist into existence. Consume only the...
Sundance Gears Up For Its Last Edition In Park City, Utah
“The country’s premier showcase for independent film is also in a time of profound transition after decades of relative stability. The festival is … forging forward...
Philip Leider, Founding Editor Of Artforum, Has Died At 96
Leider’s career arc was an unusual one. He helped turn Artforum into a go-to source for serious, no-nonsense art criticism, serving as its editor starting in...
Philadelphia Art Museum’s New Director On Moving Past The Recent Turmoil
Daniel H. Weiss talks about leading the museum (“I believe very strongly in shared governance”) and sorting out the pressing priorities: re-examining the rebrand,...
Williamstown Theatre Festival Cancels This Summer’s Edition, Considers Going Biennial
“The move not to produce this year is meant to allow the organization to continue to rethink its future after a period of radical...
Philadelphia Art Museum Considers Redoing Controversial Rebrand
Paul Dien, the chief marketing officer who oversaw that rebrand, has resigned. New director/CEO Daniel Weiss has set up a task force of staffers...
Metropolitan Opera Announces Layoffs, Pay And Programming Cuts
The company is laying off 22 of its 284 administrative staffers, reducing pay for 35 of its top executives (including general director Peter Gelb...
A Brief History Of The Word “Hello”
The greeting’s first known appearance in print happened 200 years ago this week in a Connecticut newspaper, but its roots go back at least...
The Virtuosic Female Musicians Who Attracted Rapt Listeners From All Over Europe
The women of 18th-century Venice’s ospedali (homes for the destitute, the sick, and orphans) are remembered largely because Vivaldi composed music for them. History...
This Actress Has Starred In The Same Legendarily Bad Off-Broadway Show For 39 Years
“On TripAdvisor, one user warns: ‘Don’t waste your money!’ Another pleads: ‘Kill me now!’ And yet, since 1987, Perfect Crime has been running eight times a...
You’d Think Russian Censors Would Have Shut This Play Down. But It’s A Huge...
“When an obscure play called The Kholops opened in St. Petersburg in 2024, many Russians raced to see it, fearful that the authorities would...
Despite Trump Administration Attacks, NEH Has Just Given $75 Million In Grants
“The National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) has announced a new round of grants — $75.1m to 84 projects, many of them celebrating the US’s...
Director Tina Packer, Founder Of Theater Troupe Shakespeare & Co., Is Dead At 87
“In 1978, Ms. Packer founded Shakespeare & Company with Kristin Linklater, a voice teacher; Dennis Krausnick, an actor, director and writer who later became Ms. Packer’s...
Author Julian Barnes Says He Has Written His Last Book
“I won’t stop writing, because I’ve been a journalist all my life, before I became a novelist. So I shall do journalism, reviews and...
Zubin Mehta Cancels All Of His Performances In Israel This Year
The conductor, who was music director of the Israel Philharmonic for 39 years, retiring in 2020, said his decision to withdraw from concerts there...
Starchitect Firm Snøhetta Accused Of Firing Employees For Unionizing
“In a complaint issued on Friday, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board accused Snøhetta of illegally dismissing eight employees because they...
Netflix Changes Its Warner Bros. Bid To All-Cash
“Netflix’s all-cash offer of $27.75 per share replaces its previous offer of $23.25 in cash and $4.50 in Netflix common stock per share. The...
Martha Graham Dance Company Is Latest To Cancel Kennedy Center Performances
The oldest dance company in the US had been scheduled to perform at the DC venue as part of its centennial tour. The brief...
Harry Blitzstein, The “Consummate L.A. Painter,” Is Dead At 87
“(He) often noted that the difficulties of getting gallery shows, and the disappointments that often followed, led him to open (the Blitzstein Museum of...
A Post-Fiasco Reset At Dallas Black Dance Theatre
That fiasco, during 2024-25, featured the firing of the dancers, loss of municipal funding, and a government-ordered overhaul of governance and employment practices. Now,...
How Boulder’s Only Studio For Young Competition Dancers Collapsed
Last month, Kinesis Dance, rebranded earlier that year as Frequency Dance, abruptly shut down. Preceding that closure was a long series of financial irregularities,...
