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More Shenanigans And Secrecy Around COVID Arts Relief Money In Australia’s Largest State
New South Wales was the last of the country's states to establish a rescue package for artists and organizations devastated by the pandemic-related lockdowns...
Meet Someone Who Has Worked At ABT For 50 Years
" Jones was first hired by ABT co-founder Lucia Chase when the company needed a short woman for the corps. She spent eight...
Paris Mayor Approves €250 Million Plan To Green The Champs-Elysées
That doesn't just mean to make the boulevard more environmentally friendly. "Anne Hidalgo said the planned work, unveiled in 2019 by local community leaders...
Derelict East German Amusement Park Will Become (Another) Berlin Arts District
"Some €45 million has been raised for the project, which was first proposed in 2014 after the city, through the government-owned company Grün Berlin,...
Do Critics Shape The Theatre Of Their Time? Ben Brantley Says —
"Has it really happened that way, though? To go back to my paragon, Pauline Kael, she was perceived as shaping the course of Hollywood,...
Author Ved Mehta, 86
Known for a 12-volume autobiography and more than a dozen more books, many of which got their start as New Yorker articles (he was...
Streaming Revenue In US Should Go Well Over $100 Billion This Year
"Total spending on streaming services and software is projected to reach a record $112 billion in 2021, an 11 percent growth over 2020, according...
Smithsonian Gives Up On Long-Planned $2 Billion Redesign
"When the Smithsonian introduced a futuristic plan for the 17 acres around its iconic administration building, the National Historic Landmark known as the Castle,...
Patricia Loud, Matriarch Of America’s First Reality TV Family, Dead At 94
"Ms. Loud was a California mother of five. She drank, she plotted her divorce, she adored, and accepted, her openly gay son. She did...
St. Louis Symphony Musicians Accept 15% Pay Cut
"Musicians will retain 85% of their base pay and 80% of other compensation, including career track and overscale … in addition to health benefits...
Some Good News From A Bad Year: US Book Sales Well Up In 2020
"With all major categories posting increases, unit sales of print books rose 8.2% in 2020 over 2019 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan....
Opera Australia Sued Over COVID-Related Job Cuts, Alleged ‘Intimidation’
"Opera Australia has paid out tens of thousands of dollars in confidential settlements to musicians it sacked at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic....
The Architect of the Capitol Assesses the Damage: Our Nation’s Art & Architecture (if...
This was a week when blogging-as-usual struck me as irredeemably frivolous. Trying to promulgate commentary about art and the artworld seemed fatuous, at a...
Aaron Copland: “One Red to Another”
“If they were a strange sight to me, I was no less of a one to them. It was the first time that many...
Why Are A Bunch Of Teens Convinced That Helen Keller Wasn’t Deaf-Blind?
Blame TikTok and the pathologies of social media in the age of fake news. A couple of (so-called) satirical videos were posted last year...
‘Now I’m Sounding Like One Of My Characters’ — Suzan-Lori Parks On Playwriting
"It's like what 'Michelangelo' said, right? He's working with the marble and taking away everything that's not the sculpture. And let's put Michelangelo in...
‘Star Wars’ Fan Fiction Video Is All Over The Place — And Disney Is...
"Such films have existed almost as long as the franchise itself. Early examples were spoofs, like the 1978 short Hardware Wars and a 1997...
Medieval Silver Hoard Unearthed In Polish Village
Archaeologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences discovered a ceramic vessel containing well over 6,000 coins and rings as well as silver bullion near...
Venice’s Mayor Wants Museums To Stay Closed, And Half The Town is Furious
"The decision by Luigi Brugnaro, the mayor of Venice, to extend the closure of the city's 11 civic museums — including the Doge's Palace,...
France’s Cultural Venues Will Be Closed All Month
"Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed … museums, cinemas, theaters, concert halls and gyms 'will not in the weeks to come'." Venues had...
Consider The Word ‘Sedition’
"Sedition — Merriam-Webster defines it as 'incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority' — is a word that echoes across American history,...
Simon & Schuster Cancels Sen. Josh Hawley’s Book In Wake Of Capitol Riot
From the company's announcement: "We did not come to this decision lightly. As a publisher it will always be our mission to amplify a...
Montreal Symphony’s Next Music Director Is Rafael Payare
A graduate of Venezuela's El Sistema, the 40-year-old music director of the San Diego Symphony begins a five-year term at the Maison symphonique in...
Nina Ananiashvili Sent To Siberia (For Her New Job)
Once one of the biggest stars at both the Bolshoi and ABT, she returned to her native Georgia in 2004 (at President Saakashvili's personal...
After A Year Away, Boston Symphony’s Music Director Is Back
Andris Nelsons, who has been in Europe since before the pandemic started, returned to Symphony Hall to record three programs pairing Beethoven symphonies with...