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Academic Publisher Wiley Sells AI Rights For $44 Million, Won’t Permit Authors To Opt...
"Wiley has already earned $23 million from AI deals and confirmed … that it is set to make a further $21m this financial year....
More Trouble For Shuttered UArts As Bondholders Demand $51.7 Million Repayment
The Philadelphia school, which closed down without warning on June 7, was notified two weeks later by "successor trustee" UMB Bank that, due to...
Ousted Melbourne Symphony CEO Tried To Overthrow Board Chair After He Questioned Her Spending
Sophie Galaise, the orchestra's now-former managing director, reportedly attempted, along with the board's deputy chairman, to oust MSO chairman David Li after he expressed...
Florida Family Was Sold Dozens Of Fake Warhols, Claims Lawsuit
Matthew, Judy and Richard Perlman of Miami realized they had a problem when they brought some of the pieces to Christie's to sell and...
Disney Pulls All Its Channels, Including ESPN And ABC, From Satellite Provider DirecTV
"ESPN and other Disney-owned channels have gone dark on DirecTV" — on the first weekend of college football season and halfway through US Open...
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco’s Sweet Deal To Move Into Building Part-Owned By...
The two-year-old museum is moving from the Dogpatch neighborhood into "The Cube," a modernist landmark downtown owned 70% by Vornado Realty Trust and 30%...
Cost Of Planned Vancouver Art Gallery Building Soars By 50% To C$600 Million
"The gallery released a statement Thursday, blaming the budget increase on 'unprecedented and unforeseen' recent construction cost escalation, saying this will force a change...
Cellist Antônio Meneses, Former Member Of Beaux Arts Trio, Has Died At 66
A highly respected soloist and chamber musician admired for the elegance and precision of his playing, Meneses died four weeks after revealing that he...
Candy-Colored Video Games That Critique India’s History And Politics
"The rain-soaked video game on (lead designer and writer Dhruv Jani's) computer screen, Folds of a Separation, is just one of many that Studio...
The Inhabitants Of Le Bloc, Once The Biggest Squat In Paris
"They had begun making their lives there around a date in December 2012 coinciding with the 5,125-year cycle of an ancient calendar, widely reported...
Is AI Going To Change The Field Of Art History?
"AI is already curating museum shows and biennials. Could it change how we approach, study, or regard art of the past, too? When it...
Carole Rothman, Founder Of Broadway’s Second Stage Theater: Exit Interview
As she approaches her not-entirely-amicable departure after 45 years, the 73-year-old artistic director discusses the challenges she faced as a woman in the industry,...
What Dancers And Choreographers Should Consider When Presented With Non-Disclosure Agreements
There are very legitimate concerns which such agreements can protect against, so an NDA shouldn't be rejected on general principle. Here's what to look...
Opera Australia’s Artistic Director Is Out After Only Nine Months
"The chair of the OA board, Rod Sims, said that Davies’s contract was prematurely severed by mutual agreement … due to 'differences of opinion...
NPR Is Hiring A “Joy Czar”
"Embedded in the newsroom throughout the year, the person will aim to 'ratchet up our ‘joy’ quotient across platforms,' according to an internal memo."...
About 96 Percent Of NFTs Are “Dead”: Study
After examining over 5,000 NFT collections and collecting 5 million transactions from NFTScan, researchers found that the overwhelming majority are dead (zero trading volume...
University Of The Arts Rescue Plan, A Merger With Temple University, Is Scuttled
"The Hamilton Family Charitable Trust, which contributed about half of UArts’ $62 million endowment, is not in favor of that money going to Temple...
Publishers File First Amendment Lawsuit Against Florida Over School Library Law
"Florida’s statute ... requires districts to set up a process for a parent or resident of the county to contest school and classroom library...
Ticket Sales At Bayreuth Rebound, Special 150th Anniversary Ring Cycle Announced
After a worrisome dip in attendance in 2023 (to 97%), ticket sales to the summer Wagner mecca were up to a total of 58,000...
Ofra Bikel, Whose Documentaries Helped Exonerate The Wrongly Convicted, Is Dead At 94
"(Her) work for PBS’s 'Frontline' investigative series exposed frailties in the U.S. criminal justice system — the coercive use of plea bargains, the failure...
“Nutritious Work”: What Tarell Alvin McCraney Wants To Make Happen At The Geffen Playhouse
"When we get folks in from every walk of our community, they can start having a conversation differently than, 'Get out of my way,...
Why Dark Comedies Are The TV Fare We Need
"In a world that’s bleak enough already, feel-good, heartfelt comedy feels like a salve; earnest sitcoms seem to counteract the vitriol of the real...
Meet Guillaume Diop, Paris Opera Ballet’s First-Ever Black Etoile
"Diop’s progress through the strict hierarchy at the Paris Opera – he joined the corps de ballet in 2018 – has been stunningly swift....
After Four Years And $125 Million, San Diego Symphony’s Renovated Home Is Ready To...
"Although the outside of Jacobs Music Center appears much the same as it did in March 2020, when the orchestra played its last concert...
By The Numbers: What Went Into The Renovation Of The San Diego Symphony’s Concert...
Two miles of HVAC piping, two miles of plumbing, three tuning chambers, five miles of lifting cable, 300 cable pulleys, 85,000 pounds of rigging...
