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Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig Arrested In London For Sexual Communication With A Minor
The 70-year-old has been charged with "arranging/facilitating a child sexual offence and sexual communication with a child." He has had a major guest-conducting career...
Franz Welser-Möst Announces Retirement Date From Cleveland Orchestra
The Austrian conductor, now 63, announced that he will not renew his current contract when it expires at the end of the 2026-27 season....
Can A Female Composer’s Music Be “Virile”?
The words "virile" or "virility" were constantly used in reviews of the music of the late 19th-century Irish-French composer Augusta Holmès. What's more, "Holmès's...
Behind The Scenes With An NBA Team’s Dance Squad
A reporter visits the dancers for the Utah Jazz to see the elements that go into their work, from selecting members to costumes and...
“Not A Cult To One Dead White Guy”: Marin Shakespeare Is Rethinking What A...
Under new artistic director Jon Tracy, Marin Shakespeare is undertaking a slew of new initiatives: adding nine artistic associates, hosting other stage companies in...
Actors Share Their Secrets For Recreating Bodily Functions And Fluids Onstage
Crying live is the standard challenge, but these actors have also had to simulate coughing, sneezing, climaxing and even vomiting in front of an...
OpenAI, Deluged By Copyright Lawsuits, Says That Artificial Intelligence Would Be Impossible Without Copyrighted...
"OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT and text-to-image generator DALL-E, … (told Britain's House of Lords that) 'limiting training data to public domain books and...
Thousands Of Berlin’s Arts Workers Protest City’s Decision To Require Arts Funding Recipients To...
The authors of a petition signed by more than 4,000 people "are concerned the addition of this clause as a prerequisite for funding will...
How BuzzFeed Got Itself $200 Million In Debt, And How It (Maybe) Can Get...
It all started when, in 2021, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti decided he wanted to take the company public using a SPAC (remember those?), all...
New York’s Number-One Opera And Ballet Superfan Bequeathed $1.7 Million To City Cultural Institutions
From the estate of Lois Kirschenbaum, who spent decades attending opera and ballet and collecting autographs at Lincoln Center and elsewhere, "donations of $215,000...
Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts To Shut Down Its Degree Programs
"The Academy … will keep its museum open and fully operating. It plans to carry on classes in continuing education and its K-12 arts...
Amazon Is Laying Off Hundreds Of People At Its Video Studios
"Amazon is laying off “several hundred” employees at Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios. Additionally, 500 employees — or 35% of the workforce —...
It’s Not Just The British Museum: Many Of England’s Museums Have Items Missing
"Freedom of information requests by the PA news agency to museums and galleries that receive public funding from the (national government) asking for details...
The Woman Bringing Poetry Slams To Zambia
After she discovered the work of African-American spoken-word poets, Vanessa Chisakula co-founded Word Smash Poetry in Lusaka, Zambia's capital, and she's seen poetry events...
Poland’s Old Government Politicized The Public Broadcaster. The New Government’s Having Trouble Undoing The...
As Civic Platform, the leading party in the new governing coalition, put it last year, "Poles deserve real public television, not like Russia Today,...
Is It Ethical To Have AI Complete A Painting Keith Haring Deliberately Left Unfinished?
Haring created the 1989 work titled Unfinished Painting as a comment on the lives unlived and the creativity unrealized because of the AIDS epidemic,...
The San Francisco Symphony Has Cut Back Its SoundBox Concerts. How Worrisome Is This?
The orchestra says it reduced the programming to save money, because SoundBox concerts lose a lot of it even when they sell out. Yet...
SAG-AFTRA Deal Will Let Actors License Their Voices For AI Cloning For Video Games
"Under a new deal with an artificial intelligence company, members of the Screen Actors Guild will be able to create and license digital simulations...
Teachers At Second City In Chicago Are Set To Strike Next Week
"Unionized teachers and others at the Second City Training Center said Tuesday they have authorized a strike and will set up a picket line...
As Interest In His Work Grows, Thornton Wilder’s Estate Appoints A New Literary Executor
"Jeremy McCarter, the former New York magazine drama critic and co-author with Lin-Manuel Miranda of the behind-the-scenes book Hamilton: The Revolution, has been named...
To Solve Audience Confusion, Philadelphia Orchestra/Kimmel Center Renames Itself Ensemble Arts Philly
Following the 2021 merger of the orchestra with the organization that operates its concert hall and three other venues (and presents shows in a...
Newfields/Indianapolis Museum Of Art Is Losing Board Members Following CEO’s Unexplained Departure
Six of the board's 30 members have stepped down since Colette Pierce Burnette suddenly left Newfields in November after only 15 months as CEO....
Sales Of Ink-On-Paper Books Were Down 2.6% In 2023
"Helped by a 1.7% increase in the fourth quarter, unit sales of print books fell only 2.6% in 2023 from 2022. ... The dip...
Paul Taylor Dance Company Announces Major Expansion
"(The company will) more than triple its footprint, moving its headquarters to a Midtown Manhattan office tower next year from its current home on...
In Taiwan’s Election Campaign, The Arts Sector Tries To Get Some Attention
"'Art has never been a priority' for the government, says (one gallerist), and response to pressure from the arts is 'slow, but we can’t...
