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After Painful Pandemic-Related Cuts, Philadelphia Prepares To Spend Millions Of Extra Dollars On The...
Thanks to a very unexpected municipal budget surplus, "about 15 city arts and cultural institutions would receive amounts ranging from $100,000 to $3 million...
The “Festival Of Brexit” Hoped For 66 Million Attendees. It Got Less Than 3...
Unboxed (as the bundle of events is actually called) attracted a total audience of 18 million, but the vast majority of those watched online;...
For The First Time, The Trisha Brown Dance Company Has Engaged An Outside Choreographer
Judith Sánchez Ruíz, who danced with the company from 2006 to 2009, will choreograph a work titled Let's Talk About Bleeding next year. Says...
Why, And How, Disney Fired CEO Bob Chapek And Brought Back Bob Iger
"Sources with ties to the company say discontent among some board members had been building (and) there was discussion about replacing Chapek as far...
There Are Now More Women Than Men In The New York Philharmonic
"The orchestra’s new female majority could prove fleeting — it currently has 16 player vacancies to fill, in part because auditions were put on...
Why Art Vandalism Is A Perversion Of The Fight Against Climate Change
"The art-attack tactic ... shows how social movements are warped and distorted by the logic of spectacle, undermining their longer-term viability by forcing them...
The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Move On To Vandalizing Sculpture
"On Friday in Paris, Milan, and Oslo, climate activists from local organizations under the umbrella group A22 Network doused sculptures with orange paint or...
Simon & Schuster Abandons The Merger With Penguin Random House
In the wake of a judge's decision to block the union of the two giants on anti-trust grounds, Paramount Global, the conglomerate which owns...
Brazil’s National Museum, Destroyed By Fire Four Years Ago, Is Overhauling Its Approach To...
The historic Rio de Janeiro building had, alongside its natural history materials, large holdings of Indigenous artifacts — collected in another era, usually plundered...
Condé Nast’s CEO Talks About How He Wants To Make The Venerable Magazine Publisher...
"Roger Lynch ... inherited a company of fiefdoms (which) competed with one another for advertisers and cover stars. ... Three-and-a-half years into the job,...
Audie Cornish Talks About Her Not-What-She-Had-Expected Transition From NPR To CNN
"The piloting process has been fun, but it's complex when you're navigating an incredibly interesting moment in our business. Even if CNN wasn't having...
Composer Ned Rorem, 99
"By the time he was 40, he had written more than 400 art songs, as well as three symphonies, several one-act operas and a...
Fort Worth Opera Has Another New General Director
"In a surprise announcement that comes one week before Afton Battle's last day as Fort Worth Opera general and artistic director, the company has...
New York State Starts A Pilot Program Of Guaranteed Basic Income For Arts Freelancers
"The Creatives Rebuild New York initiative has announced that it is spending $43.2 million to distribute monthly payments of $1,000 to 2,400 artists and...
Curtis Institute Of Music Is Launching Its Own Record Label
Curtis Studio, as the label will be called, will feature artists in residence as well as student ensembles. The inaugural album, to be released...
The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Are Just Making The Problem Worse, Says Art Historian/Climate Activist
"Do these attacks not reveal the fragility of what we hold dear? Do they not make us think about what we want to save...
English National Opera Will Close Next April If It’s Not Given Money To Stay...
"There is no relocation," Harry Brünjes told a group of MPs this week about Arts Council England's decision to defund the company unless it...
Jacob’s Pillow Will Rebuild The Burned-Down Doris Duke Theater
The dance festival's second stage was destroyed by a fire almost exactly two years ago. A lead grant of $10 million grant from the...
Award For Playwright Caryl Churchill Is Withdrawn Because Of Her Pro-Palestinian Views
Last April, a theatre in Stuttgart named Churchill the winner of its 2022 European Drama Award, worth €75,000. When the jury discovered that she's...
Why Andy Blankenbuehler, Choreographer Of “Hamilton”, Decided He Had To Create A Musical Of...
"There's a lot of storytelling ability in dance, but in musical theater, people champion words first. And so many times as a dancer, you...
How Will Arbery Writes Plays That Appeal To All Sides In A Deeply Divided...
"The key is Arbery's ear. He is one of the theater's greatest listeners, able to hear and reproduce the subtle and deeply specific ways...
As Xi’s Crackdown Gets Ever Tougher, Hong Kong’s Filmmakers Turn Overseas
For decades, the little territory's movie industry was vibrant and proud: its martial arts thrillers and historical epics gathered fans throughout the world. and...
Pakistan Unbans Its Entry For The Best International Film Oscar
"Pakistan has reversed course and lifted a ban on its Oscars entry, Joyland, but the film will receive some cuts by local censors. ......
The Gestation And Birth Of “The Lion King” — An Oral History
"In interviews over the last few weeks, many of those involved in bringing The Lion King to Broadway in 1997 spoke about the show's...
For London Arts Organizations Squawking About Losing Funding, Some Choice Words From A Government...
Lord Neil Mendoza: "It's just not right — it's absolutely not fair. We're so London-focused. ... There's this idea that once you've had funding...
