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RISD Students And Faculty Stage Walkout In Support Of Striking Workers
"Over 600 students, faculty, and Providence locals joined a walkout at the Rhode Island School of Art and Design last week in support of...
Playwright James Ijames Steps Down From Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater
The author of the Pulitzer-winning Fat Ham was one of a trio of revolving artistic directors who succeeded Wilma cofounder Blanka Zizka in 2020....
Peter Gelb And Yannick Nézet-Séguin Talk About The Met’s Pivot To Contemporary Opera
Gelb: "It's not contemporary opera. It's the right contemporary opera." YNS: "Now, composers are more aware of how to appeal to audiences. It's not...
In Record-Setting Numbers, Writers Guild Members Vote To Authorize A Strike Against Hollywood Studios
"Nearly 98% of the 9,218 votes were cast to authorize the strike, with nearly 79% of guild members voting. … The writers' three-year contract...
“Mozart In The Jungle” Author Blair Tindall Is Dead At 63
"(She was a freelance) oboist for the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's who turned...
Fewer Than A Third Of Artistic Directors At Ballet Companies Worldwide Are Women, A...
"Of the 198 artistic directors DDP identified at classically-based companies in both the U.S. and around the world, 58 (29%) are women and 140...
Actors’ Equity Has A Deal For A New Broadway Tour Contract
"The deal comes after the union, which represents more than 51,000 stage managers and actors, had announced a strike threat against the Broadway League,...
Pierre Lacotte, Choreographer, Ballet Historian, And Nureyev Rescuer, Is Dead At 91
He spent his career at the Paris Opera Ballet, first as a dancer and then as historian, searching the company archives and reconstructing old...
PBS Follows NPR In Stopping All Further Posts On Twitter
"PBS said it has suspended posting to Twitter after Elon Musk's social network pinned a 'government-funded media' descriptor to its primary account. The public...
Spain Seizes Counterfeit Old Master Paintings That Were Being Marketed For $84 Million
"Spanish police are investigating four people for fraud after they allegedly tried to sell forged paintings for more than €76 million. … The four...
At The National Symphony In DC, The Music Director Is Personally Lending String Players...
"Since 2011, Gianandrea Noseda has quietly amassed an impressive collection of string instruments, and since 2019, he's been covertly feeding those instruments into the...
Former Art Institute Of Chicago Payroll Manager Pleads Guilty To Stealing $2 Million
"Michael Maurello ... falsified payments to employees and funneled museum payroll into his personal bank accounts from 2007 to 2020, the written plea agreement...
Texas County Backs Off Plan To Close Its Public Library Rather Than Restore The...
"Llano County Judge Ron Cunningham announced that the county's library system will stay open. … Commissioners considered whether or not they would shut down...
Philly Pops Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Philadelphia Orchestra-Kimmel Center
"The (federal) suit … claims that the orchestra, since merging with the Kimmel Center, has engaged in 'unlawful, anticompetitive and predatory conduct' to 'eliminate...
Uffizi Galleries Raise Ticket Price By 25%, And Italians Argue Over The Cost Of...
"The Uffizi Galleries (in Florence) have hiked their ticket prices because of pressures from rising energy prices, … sparking a debate about how much...
Biden Revives The President’s Committee On The Arts And Humanities — With Some Very...
The advisory board on cultural issues, which was disbanded by Donald Trump, has among its new members Shonda Rhimes, Jon Batiste, George Clooney, Kerry...
The Brad Pitt-And-The-Starchitects-Save-The-Lower-Ninth-Ward Fiasco Has Hit Another Low
The Make It Right Foundation was supposed to provide well-designed replacement homes for wiped-out Katrina victims in the impoverished New Orleans neighborhood. The houses...
The Professional Ballerina And PhD Physicist Who Dances With Robots
"Merritt Moore … is walking, talking, dancing proof that you can build a career in both science and art. She has a PhD in...
Nobody In Hollywood Would Finance A Film Titled “How To Blow Up A Pipeline”
"Shot in the deserts of Texas, the film takes (climate activist Andreas) Malm's call to action and builds it into a heist movie. …...
How Bookshop.org Helped Save Independent Bookstores From Being Completely Crushed By Amazon
"What started as a favor done on a business-trip whim has since become the great project of Andy Hunter's professional life. In its first...
Anne Perry, Murder Mystery Author Who Took Part In A Notorious Murder Herself, Is...
"Ms. Perry, a prolific writer who sold more than 26 million books worldwide, had already become well established as a novelist when her sinister...
The Taliban Are Actually Moving To Protect An Ancient Buddhist Site
"The Afghan heritage site Mes Aynak is currently at risk of being destroyed due to a delayed mining project. The site, just 25 miles...
Today In Schadenfreude: Florida Woman Runs Her Rolls-Royce Smack Into A $3 Million Damien...
The unnamed motorist, who claims not to remember the incident, drove into the Palm Beach backyard of billionaire art collectors Steven and Lisa Tananbaum,...
The Popular New Place For Catching News Podcasts? YouTube
Polling from the firm Morning Consult that US podcast consumers, in the aggregate, prefer YouTube to audio-only platforms. Staffers from Slate, ESPN, and NPR...
Dallas Theater Center, Struggling With Attendance And Finances, Announces Layoffs
"Dallas Theater Center will lay off an undisclosed number of staff, it announced Tuesday, a cost-cutting measure that comes as the organization has struggled...
