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Is There About To Be A Labor Dispute At The Alvin Ailey Company?
The contract between Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and its dancers' union expires this week, and there's no new agreement in sight. The union...
A Little Dust-Up Over Opera And Classism In Britain’s Parliament
Boris's deputy, Dominic Raab, took a potshot at Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner (a longtime union rep proud of her working-class roots) for going...
San Francisco Expands Its Guaranteed Income Pilot For Artists
"Thanks to funding from Jack Dorsey's #StartSmall foundation and a donation from billionaire McKenzie Scott, which supplemented the city's initial investment with $3.5 million,...
“It’s A Mysterious Thing, The Dynamic Between A Puppet Onstage And The Audience, Even...
Take, for instance, the puppet playing Milky White the cow in the upcoming Broadway revival of Sondheim's Into the Woods. - The New York...
Hagia Sophia’s 1,500-Year-Old Marble Floors Cracked By Heavy Machinery
"A number of marble tiles on the floor of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, which was turned back into a mosque in 2020 after...
Remember When Hollywood Threatened To Pull Out Of Georgia Over An Abortion Ban? It...
"Now that the law is on the verge of going into effect, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, the studios have gone quiet. ......
Germany Signs Formal Agreement To Return 1,100 Benin Bronzes To Nigeria
"The collection of metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin ... that have found their way into...
There’s A New, Well-Endowed Funder On The Arts Scene
"Funded by a $440 million bequest from Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, the Ruth Foundation for the Arts immediately enters the highest echelons of arts...
The US Has Lost 360 Newspapers Since 2019
"That is on top of the 2,500 closures since 2004 documented in earlier reports. The result is even more 'news deserts' in poorer and...
Can New York City Public Schools Have Both Smaller Class Sizes And Music And...
Probably not, says Education Through Music executive director Janice Weinman, and especially not this year. The state legislature just passed a law requiring the...
The Poetry Of Marilyn Monroe
She wrote poetry regularly, though she never published any of it. Sure, she was no Marianne Moore, but there's real thought and feeling in...
Who Was St. Sebastian, And How Did He Become A Major Element In Gay...
He was a Roman soldier martyred in the 3rd century CE, traditionally depicted tied to a tree, wearing only a loincloth, his bare torso...
The Bells Of Notre-Dame And The Sounds You Never Knew They’ve Been Making
Large cast-metal bells like the ten at the Paris cathedral (they survived the 2019 fire) emit sounds all the time: when they're not actively...
Queering Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
Yes, Serge Diaghilev was what we might call today queer, but he certainly couldn't be open about it — and neither could the pathbreaking...
Foley Artists And The Secrets Of Movie Sounds
"The bulk of the sound in film is typically added in postproduction. ... Foley effects are custom to a film, and are synchronized to...
The Oberammergau Passion Play, An Almost 400-Year-Old Tradition, Is Not Just Back, It’s Better
"Thanks to steady work since 1990 to maximize the play's ecumenicism via ever bolder changes in characterizations and design" — in particular, altering anti-Semitic...
The One American City Where Contemporary Classical Music Has Become The Norm
Mark Swed: "New York, London, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam happen to be historically vibrant centers of new music. ... But new music hasn't in...
Orlando Museum Of Art’s Board Fires Director In Wake Of Basquiat Fiasco
"Aaron De Groft ... was removed from his post Tuesday night, just days after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the museum and seized...
Met Museum President Daniel Weiss Will Step Down Next June
"During his tenure, Weiss steered the Met through a major restructuring of its finances, a shakeup of its leadership, and economic and moral crises...
Staffers At France’s Entire National Broadcasting System Go On Strike To Protest Elimination Of...
"Thousands of staffers and freelancers working for France's public broadcasting groups, spanning France Télévisions, France 24, Arte and Radio France, went on strike on...
Warm-Up Vocal Exercises From Three Very Different Classical Singing Disciplines
Singers of Western opera (Anthony Roth Costanzo), Cantonese opera (Pui Yan Li), and Carnatic (South Indian classical) music (Ganavya Doraiswamy) demonstrate what they do...
A Love Story Created By Artificial Intelligence (And What It Does And Doen’t Mean...
Stephen Marche: "The love story below is my attempt to develop an idealized love story out of all the love stories that I have...
Saudi Arabia’s New Cultural Destination Will Have Five Major Works Of Earth Art, Including...
"Five permanent artworks are planned for Wadi AlFann" — a "valley of the arts," part of the $15 billion AlUla complex which will be...
Ken Knowlton, A Father Of Computer Graphics And Animation, Dead At 91
"(He) helped pioneer the science and art of computer graphics and made many of the first computer-generated pictures, portraits and movies." - The New...
So Just Who Was E.T.A. Hoffmann?
"Known today primarily for his literary works, it is often forgotten that ETA Hoffmann, a multi-faceted artist and universal genius, also practised as a...
