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International African-American Museum Institutes Rolling Furloughs For All Employees
Just under three years after opening, the museum on Charleston’s waterfront is facing financial troubles severe enough that all staffers, including senior executives, are...
Pittsburgh Symphony Extends Manfred Honeck’s Music Director Contract To 2033
“The renewal will give Honeck a 25-year tenure with the orchestra, making him the longest-serving music director in the Pittsburgh Symphony’s 131-year history. Honeck,...
David Hockney, 88
“Over a seven-decade career, Hockney explored and reimagined classical portraiture, landscape painting and pop art, working in painting, collage, photography and digital drawing. …...
Boston Symphony CEO: Yes, We Handled The Nelsons Thing Poorly. No, We’re Not Changing...
Chad Smith: “I can see that it was an abrupt announcement externally. It didn’t represent abrupt decision-making, though. It was a very considered conversation...
Pianist Igor Levit Launches His Own Record Label
The imprint, which will operate within Sony Music, Levit’s longtime label, is called No Silence, and will feature artists other than Levit himself. Among...
The Stanford Class Where Students Are Taught To Dance Badly
“’Welcome to bad dancing,’ says Alex Ketley, a choreographer and former member of the San Francisco Ballet who teaches Dance 123: Hot Mess & Deliberate Failure...
Scientists May Have Discovered A New Way To Spot Counterfeit Van Goghs
“By analyzing the surfaces of eight Vincent van Gogh paintings, surface metrology indeed confirmed the veracity of one long-contested but recently confirmed Van Gogh specimen —...
San Diego Mayor’s Budget Eliminates Arts Funding. This New Plan Restores Over 90% Of...
The plan from City Council members and the Prebys Foundation will have the nonprofit provide $3 million in one-time replacement money, while the city...
Pennsylvania Reverses Decision Not To Fund Smallest Arts Organizations
“Last year, the (Pennsylvania Council on the Arts) renamed itself Pennsylvania Creative Industries and reorganized its funding criteria, making organizations with budgets under $100,000...
The Looted Antiquities Trade Continues For The Same Reason The Illegal Drug Trade Does
In a word, demand. - Artnet
Atlanta Has A New Classical Theater Company
Georgia Classic Theatre is being founded by former artists with Georgia Shakespeare, which operated from 1985 to 2014. GCT held its first fundraiser last...
After Eight Nominations, Glenn Close Will Finally Get An Oscar
It will be an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement, but it’s something. Joining her as recipients of this year’s Governors Awards are director Ridley...
U.S. Authors’ Incomes Are Down. New Study Looks At Why.
“(The Authors Guild research) found that only 25% of print books and e-books read in the past month were bought new or through a...
Collateral Damage From Trump’s Iran War: W.H. Smith, The Big Airport-Bookstore Chain
“The retailer, which operates 1,200 outlets globally in airports, railway stations and hospitals, … has already experienced a fall in revenues in its UK airport...
Photographer Duane Michals, 94
“In a career that spanned six decades and crisscrossed artistic and commercial contexts, Michals challenged photographic convention and innovated new forms; he is best...
A New CEO For Aspen Music Festival And School
Meghan Umber has spent two decades at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where she’s currently the orchestra’s chief programming officer and president of the Hollywood...
Turks Turn To Tango
The passionate ballroom dance of Buenos Aires and Montevideo has found a large, equally passionate base of fans in Istanbul, where a multitude of...
Director Milo Rau’s Staged Moral Tribunals Have Been A Big Success. His Latest Choice...
Rau’s trials — with real witnesses and arguments, followed by symbolic judgments — have put Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists, mining companies in the Congo, and...
The Director Who Brought Sicilian Dialect Back To Palermo’s Stages
Emma Dante, who will receive the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at this year’s Venice Theatre Biennale, led a revival of interest in dialect...
How Gaudí’s Design Keeps Sagrada Familia Standing Tall Without Flying Buttresses
The great Barcelona architect despised flying buttresses, especially in 20th-century neo-Gothic architecture, calling them “crutches” for a building that couldn’t support its own weight....
Julio Le Parc, Pioneer Of Moving Op Art, Has Died At 97
“He focused on kinetic sculpture … and the geometric optical illusions of Op Art, infusing them with regional influences” — he was Argentine, though...
Plan For $1.16 Billion Opera House Scrapped By Mayor Of Düsseldorf
Millions have already been spent on planning and architectural design for a new home for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and total costs for...
Trump Administration Asked National Park Visitors To Report “Negative” History Info. Visitors Did Something...
What most respondents considered negative was the effort itself. One visitor called it “un-American.” Another criticized the idea of “having Americans call in and snitch...
Imax Is Considering Selling Itself To A Big Studio. Here’s The Problem It Has.
“A key challenge will be finding a buyer who wouldn't present a conflict of interest.” How so? - TheWrap (Yahoo!)
The “Middleware” Problem: How Do You Find Classical Music?
“For decades, the relationship between artists and audiences was heavily mediated and nurtured by newspaper critics, classical radio hosts, record-store owners, etc. — They...
