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What U.S. Ballet Companies Are Paying Their Executive And Artistic Directors
For the 50 largest companies, the average salary for both positions is over $200,000, and the gender gap in pay averages 17% for artistic...
Last Remaining Suspect In 2005 Theft Of Warhol And Pollock Works Turns Himself In
After hiding from authorities for seven months, Nicholas Dombek appeared at a Scranton, Pa. courthouse. He's one of nine alleged members of a ring...
Artist Alexis Smith, Who Pioneered Fusion Of Image And Text, Has Died At 74
"Her imaginative collages and assemblages have drawn on, not just borrowed — and sometimes edited — quotations by everyone from Milton to Kerouac and...
The Retiring CEO Who Has Transformed The Detroit Opera
Under Wayne Brown, the company "has placed itself at the center of operatic conversation, … broken fund-raising records, (and) drawn first-time ticket buyers by...
Worldwide Cinema Office Revenue Is Up By Almost A Third From The Previous Year
The analytics firm Gower Street estimates that global sales of movie tickets in 2023 add up to $33.9 billion, an increase of 31% from...
So, What Other Goodies Have Come Into Public Domain As Of 2024?
In the US, Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Virginia Woolf's Orlando, and Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc. In the EU, Canada,...
That Time Andrew Scott Stopped Shakespeare’s Most Famous Monologue Cold
"When I was playing Hamlet, a guy took out his laptop – not his phone, his laptop – while I was in the middle...
Iraq Starts A New TV Channel To Help Save An Ancient And Endangered Language
Syriac, a 2,000-year-old tongue closely related to the Aramaic spoken by Jesus of Nazareth, is today the language of Iraq's Orthodox Christians, a community...
Nashville Changed Its Arts Funding Model To Help Organizations That Had Been Neglected. Then...
Racism at work? Depends on what exactly one means by racism, and where — because the Metro Nashville Arts Commission reversed the new funding...
Meet The Founding Director Of San Antonio’s Only Professional Contemporary Dance Company
Just a year ago, Tanesha Payne created SumRset (adapted from her maiden name) to spread appreciation for contemporary dance in America's seventh-largest city, where...
“Streaming Anxiety”: Why So Many People Are Still Buying DVDs, CDs, And LPs
The Blu-ray and DVD releases of Oppenheimer, for example, sold out in a week or so. Some of this is the basic fan/collector impulse,...
The US State Department Has Launched A(nother) Global Music Diplomacy Initiative. Can It Work?
The goal of the program is, said Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, to use American music and musicians, across many genres, "to strengthen the...
Meet The Founding Composer Of Cuban Classical Music
Esteban Salas y Castro (1725-1803) grew up in Havana and worked as music director at an important parish church there and at the cathedral...
Five More Ways That AI Will Change Art
Even more arguments about appropriation. Parasocial aesthetics. (Yes, there's a definition of that.) Art that's about trying to outfox or even break AI. And...
Ana Ofelia Murguía, One Of Mexico’s Greatest Actresses (And The Voice Of Pixar’s Coco),...
Particularly known for playing villainesses, Murguía enjoyed a nearly 70-year career that spanned over 100 roles on film, television and the stage. She won...
Salman Rushdie’s Coming Memoir Of His Attack May Cause The Delay Of His Attacker’s...
The trial judge ruled that defendant Hadi Matar and his attorney are entitled to a copy of the manuscript and related material as part...
Radio Giant Audacy Is Preparing To File For Bankruptcy: Report
The successor company to a merger between CBS Radio and Entercom, Audacy manages 235 radio stations in 48 US media markets. A decline in...
Five Ways (Which You Probably Haven’t Thought Of Yet) In Which AI Will Change...
Ben Davis: "I always say: Futurology is mainly people telling you what corporations are already doing. Here, I’m trying to avoid predictions like, 'art...
Gay Neo-Hula Master Patrick Makuakāne Says He Couldn’t Have Become A MacArthur “Genius” Anywhere...
"'If I was in LA or New York, or even Hawaii, I would not be getting this award,' he said. 'There’s something special about...
“Bridgerton: The Experience”. “Money Heist: The Experience.” “Squid Game: The Experience”. Yep, They’re All...
"These activations offer titles another way to stand out, literally, amid a crowded mediascape. For series, specifically, they offer a way to retain fans...
Are Jazz Big Bands Making A Comeback?
The rise of bebop led to trios and quartets replacing the 15-to-20-member orchestras of Ellington, Basie, etc. as the dominant ensembles in jazz. Economics...
Venice’s New Entry Fee For Day-Trippers Isn’t Nearly High Enough
The €5 charge won't even cover the cost of administering it, let alone discourage or limit wear-and-tear from too much foot traffic. Anna Somers...
Even If Right-Wing Book Bans Win, They’ll Never Achieve What Their Foot Soldiers Want
The bans and the battles over them, writes Laura Miller, might achieve the goal of their wealthy conservative backers (destroy citizens' faith in public...
Tap-Dance Legend Maurice Hines, 80
He and his brother Gregory formed a highly successful tap duo (and played a similar duo in Coppola's film The Cotton Club) before starting...
Mickey Mouse Has Been In Public Domain For One Day, And There’s Already A...
Just a year after the expiration of copyright on another extremely cute character was swiftly followed by Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, the...
