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Philadelphia Art Museum Considers Redoing Controversial Rebrand
Paul Dien, the chief marketing officer who oversaw that rebrand, has resigned. New director/CEO Daniel Weiss has set up a task force of staffers...
Metropolitan Opera Announces Layoffs, Pay And Programming Cuts
The company is laying off 22 of its 284 administrative staffers, reducing pay for 35 of its top executives (including general director Peter Gelb...
A Brief History Of The Word “Hello”
The greeting’s first known appearance in print happened 200 years ago this week in a Connecticut newspaper, but its roots go back at least...
The Virtuosic Female Musicians Who Attracted Rapt Listeners From All Over Europe
The women of 18th-century Venice’s ospedali (homes for the destitute, the sick, and orphans) are remembered largely because Vivaldi composed music for them. History...
This Actress Has Starred In The Same Legendarily Bad Off-Broadway Show For 39 Years
“On TripAdvisor, one user warns: ‘Don’t waste your money!’ Another pleads: ‘Kill me now!’ And yet, since 1987, Perfect Crime has been running eight times a...
You’d Think Russian Censors Would Have Shut This Play Down. But It’s A Huge...
“When an obscure play called The Kholops opened in St. Petersburg in 2024, many Russians raced to see it, fearful that the authorities would...
Despite Trump Administration Attacks, NEH Has Just Given $75 Million In Grants
“The National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) has announced a new round of grants — $75.1m to 84 projects, many of them celebrating the US’s...
Director Tina Packer, Founder Of Theater Troupe Shakespeare & Co., Is Dead At 87
“In 1978, Ms. Packer founded Shakespeare & Company with Kristin Linklater, a voice teacher; Dennis Krausnick, an actor, director and writer who later became Ms. Packer’s...
Author Julian Barnes Says He Has Written His Last Book
“I won’t stop writing, because I’ve been a journalist all my life, before I became a novelist. So I shall do journalism, reviews and...
Zubin Mehta Cancels All Of His Performances In Israel This Year
The conductor, who was music director of the Israel Philharmonic for 39 years, retiring in 2020, said his decision to withdraw from concerts there...
Starchitect Firm Snøhetta Accused Of Firing Employees For Unionizing
“In a complaint issued on Friday, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board accused Snøhetta of illegally dismissing eight employees because they...
Netflix Changes Its Warner Bros. Bid To All-Cash
“Netflix’s all-cash offer of $27.75 per share replaces its previous offer of $23.25 in cash and $4.50 in Netflix common stock per share. The...
Martha Graham Dance Company Is Latest To Cancel Kennedy Center Performances
The oldest dance company in the US had been scheduled to perform at the DC venue as part of its centennial tour. The brief...
Harry Blitzstein, The “Consummate L.A. Painter,” Is Dead At 87
“(He) often noted that the difficulties of getting gallery shows, and the disappointments that often followed, led him to open (the Blitzstein Museum of...
A Post-Fiasco Reset At Dallas Black Dance Theatre
That fiasco, during 2024-25, featured the firing of the dancers, loss of municipal funding, and a government-ordered overhaul of governance and employment practices. Now,...
How Boulder’s Only Studio For Young Competition Dancers Collapsed
Last month, Kinesis Dance, rebranded earlier that year as Frequency Dance, abruptly shut down. Preceding that closure was a long series of financial irregularities,...
Scottish Government Accused Of “Eroding” Nation’s Culture Due To Standstill Funding
“Arts industry leaders have accused the Scottish Government of ‘eroding’ the culture sector after leaving its national performing companies” — Royal Scottish National Orchestra,...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Orders Editorial Changes At Military Newspaper Stars And Stripes
“The Pentagon said Thursday that it is changing the independent military newspaper … so it concentrates on ‘reporting for our warfighters’ and no longer...
We Have Quite Enough Visitors, Thank You, Says Director Of Madrid’s Prado
“The Prado does not need a single visitor more. We are comfortable with 3.5 million,” (Miguel Falomir) said. ... “A museum can collapse due to...
How Salman Rushdie Survived The Knife Attack That Cost Him His Eye
“How does one spend 20 years training themselves not to be afraid, only to be reminded that they should have been scared all along?...
UK Theatre Company Forced To Cancel New York Festival Run Because Visas Were “Paused”
The touring troupe Quarantine was to perform its midday-to-midnight piece 12 Last Songs this weekend as part of the Under the Radar festival of...
Making Opera From The Most Bizarre Of New York’s Avant-Garde Playwrights
Composer Michael Gordon on the late Richard Foreman’s script for What to Wear: “It’s a piece with four Madeline Xs. They’re trying to find...
This Red-State Public Radio/TV Network Says It’s Getting Along Fine Despite Loss Of Federal...
South Carolina ETV/South Carolina Public Radio lost $3.2 million — 10% of total revenue — in annual funding when the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s...
Breakthrough In Case Of Stolen Louvre Jewels
“Investigators say they have traced the thieves to an underground parking garage where they temporarily stashed the imperial jewels. The surveillance footage of the...
Turning A Video Game Into Immersive Theater
That’s what Punchdrunk, the éminence grise of immersive companies, is doing at its southeast London headquarters. Lander 23 is an IRL multiplayer game in...
