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Facing Serious Cash Crunch, Sydney Dance Company Builds Up Its Teaching Offerings
Despite reaching new artistic heights, Australia’s leading contemporary dance troupe has posted four annual deficits in a row, totaling $5.2 million (US$3.7 million) and...
Heinz Endowments Changes Priorities In Its Arts Funding Grants
The Pittsburgh-based foundation is ending grants for one-time projects and for individual artists in favor of funding arts organizations and cultural infrastructure in the...
Opera Australia Has Turned Its Troubled Finances Around
After posting an operating loss of $10.6 million (US$7.6 million) in 2024, the company — boosted by a 29% increase in ticket sales —...
The Heroic Effort To Rebuild Brazil’s National Museum, Almost Completely Destroyed In A Fire
“The news arrived (in September 2025) with both excitement and a pang of grief: The oldest national history museum in the Americas was slated...
Jazz Pianist John Eaton, Evangelist For Great American Songbook, Has Died At 91
“Across a more-than-six-decade playing career, he recorded albums for the Chiaroscuro label, took requests from Nancy Reagan at the White House, delighted audiences at...
Behind The Scenes At Second City, Watching A New Show Get Made
“What people don’t know about the process is that when the old cast is done, on their final day, usually a Sunday, the new...
What It Costs These Days To Produce A Show In London’s West End
“Mounting a play in the West End now requires between £1 million and £2 million pounds in upfront investment, while staging a musical requires...
Barn At Oscar Hammerstein II’s Pennsylvania Farmstead Collapses In Storm
Highland Farm, just outside Doylestown in Bucks County, was where Hammerstein wrote the words for many of the musicals he created with Richard Rodgers....
Since It Gave Up Government Funding, Finances At London’s Wigmore Hall Are Stronger Than...
The city's most respected chamber music venue has seen a 25% increase year-on-year in ticket sales since it left the funding portfolio of Arts...
How The Cherokee Bible Reveals Differences Between European And Native American Worldviews
One can learn quite a bit by noticing which English words and phrases had no Cherokee equivalent — and in how translators chose to...
How The Big Art Auction Houses Engineered Their Roaring Comeback
“The houses leaned into spectacle — including a promotional video featuring Nicole Kidman dancing around a bronze Brancusi head — and prearranged deals …...
What’s Missing From Dance Funding In The U.S.? Here’s What One Of The Leading...
Ashley Ferro-Murray of the Doris Duke Foundation: I’m interested in … funding resilient models for the future as well as legacy models that ......
James Will Be Leading A Different Kind Of Murdoch Media Empire
“One New York staffer said that, in contrast to other billionaires who have purchased media properties in recent years, James Murdoch has ‘actually been...
Wilma Theater In Philadelphia Ends Its Three-Artistic-Director Experiment
“The new and sole artistic director is Lindsay Smiling, who has been one of the company’s three co-artistic directors for the past three years;...
L.A. Phil’s Next Music Director: Daniel Harding
The 50-year-old British conductor and part-time Air France pilot is currently chief conductor at Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and has held similar...
How Much Has Anthony Roth Costanzo Turned Opera Philadelphia Around? This Much.
When he became general director in 2024, he had to raise $4 million in 12 weeks just to keep the company from closing; that...
Jazz Saxophone Great Sonny Rollins Has Died At 95
“From his days as a teen phenom to his more measured solo work and experimentation with free jazz, Rollins was revered for his improvisational...
Gallerist Brett Sikkema’s Husband Convicted Of Ordering His Murder
“In a grisly case that shocked the art world, a Cuban-American man was found guilty of his role in a murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the...
Russia Bombs Many Of Kyiv’s Major Cultural And Historical Sites
The National Art Museum, National Philharmonic of Ukraine, Kyiv Opera Theater, National Chornobyl Museum, Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium and Hinaus Gallery were among sites...
Brian Large, 87, Masterful TV And Film Producer Of Opera And Classical Music
He directed well over 100 films and telecasts of operas and concerts for the BBC, the Royal Opera House in London, the Met, and...
The Robot Fight Clubs Of San Francisco Are Now Having Dance Wars
Yes, this is a thing. - The San Francisco Standard
One Of Chicago’s Veteran Music Critics Writes An Opera About His Holocaust-Survivor Mother
In 2019, Howard Reich, longtime jazz critic of the Chicago Tribune, published The Art of Inventing Hope, based on conversations with Elie Wiesel and...
New Zealand To Decentralize Arts Funding, Awarding Most Grants Regionally
The national government’s arts agency, Creative New Zealand, plans to have most funding decisions (excepting international projects and national companies such as the NZ...
Michael Pennington, One Of Britain’s Great Classical Stage Actors, Is Dead At 82
“Over the years with the RSC, the English Shakespeare Company” — which he co-founded — “and beyond, Pennington played most of the leading roles...
Owner Of Music For “Peanuts” TV Specials Files Four Copyright Lawsuits, One Of Them...
“The owner of the Peanuts television and film music catalog is suing multiple entities over the alleged unlawful use of jazz artist Vince Guaraldi's famous tracks from the "Charlie...
