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Firings At Dallas Black Dance Theatre: A Generational Culture Clash?
When management fired the entire main company in August, the dancers said it was because they tried to unionize; management said that a social...
About 40% Of Jobs In U.S. Book Publishing Have Disappeared Since 1997
Figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that employment in the industry peaked in 1997 at 91,100 jobs; as late as 2008...
At American Ballet Companies, Artistic Leadership Remains Largely Male
Dance Data Project's 2024 survey of the 150 largest ballet and classically-based companies in the U.S. shows little change in the gender balance among...
A Nine-Panel, 483-Year-Old Masterpiece Has Been Reassembled In Venice
But not quite fully reassembled. Giorgio Vasari's 1541 portrayal of the Five Virtues, painted for the ceiling of a Venetian palazzo, was broken up...
In Unanimous Vote, National Symphony Musicians Authorize Strike
"At the core of the dispute is what the union identifies as an unacceptable wage gap between NSO musicians and their peers in orchestras...
Writers Explain Why They Love “The Chicago Manual of Style”
"The Chicago Manual of Style isn’t merely a guide; it’s a testament to the art of textual precision. … CMOS doesn’t skim the surface...
“Saturday Night Live” Turns 50, And Lorne Michaels Decides He Won’t Retire After All
Four years ago, Michaels, the series's founding producer, said that by the end of the 50th season, "I think I really deserve to wander...
A Decade On, “The Babadook” Holds Up, And It’s Still A Gold Mine For...
"Fans were soon drawing (the) hokey monster against rainbow backdrops. They were bending his rhyming schemes to echo contemporary gay lingo (“BABAYAAAAAAAAASS!!!” one illustration...
It Seems We Are Not The Only Primates Who Dance
Researchers in Germany and France have analyzed the stylized movements of some female gibbons, and they've found that, defining dance as "an intentional movement...
Lin-Manuel Miranda Gives Status Of Possible “The Warriors” Musical
This project started, as Hamilton did, as a concept album, which is being released next month. Miranda said that he won't proceed with creating...
Federal Court Rules That Big Bird Is Not Racist
Five Black and Hispanic families sued the Sesame Place theme park in suburban Philadelphia, alleging that their children were ignored by costumed performers there...
Soprano Lucine Amara, Met Opera Mainstay For Four Decades, Is Dead At 99
She sang 748 performances in 56 roles at the Met between 1950 and 1991. Many of those performances were last-minute: for many years she...
Newspaper Giant Axel Springer Is Separating From The Private Equity Firm That Owns It
The finance firm KKR bought the controlling interest in Axel Springer — which owns German news outlets Bild and Die Welt along with US...
San Francisco Symphony Cancels Season Opener As Chorus Goes On Strike
"More than 150 musicians and patrons joined the Symphony Chorus, which formed a picket … in front of Davies Symphony Hall an hour and...
Frick Collection Names New Director As It Prepares To Return Home
The incumbent, Ian Wardropper, announced last year that he would be retiring in 2025 as the museum returns to its now-renovated Manhattan mansion home....
New York Philharmonic Players Get 30% Raise In New Contract
"The deal with Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians calls for raises of about 15% in 2024-25, and 7.5% each in 2025-26...
Hans Haacke, The First Artist To Confront American Museums With Politics
Before Haacke, museums were considered … 'genteel and politically marginal.' Robber barons might have donated to them to enhance their social clout, but such...
It’s A Brave Actor Who’ll Play Abraham Lincoln At Ford’s Theatre
Yet that's exactly what Scott Bakula will be doing when he assumes the title role in Herbert Mitgang’s 1979 solo play Mister Lincoln at...
How New York’s Jam-Packed Fall For Dance Festival Gets Programmed
Stanford Makishi, vice president and artistic director of dance at New York City Center: "We literally have companies written on Post-it notes on a...
How Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker” Has Remained An Important Book For 50 Years
"Half a century after its publication, (this) epic biography of urban planner and city-destroyer Robert Moses needs no revival. From the moment it was...
Black Artists And Artisans In South Carolina Return To A Crop That Once Made...
As with the Lowcountry's other 18th-century cash crop, rice, slavers deliberately abducted Africans skilled in growing and working with indigo and transported them to...
Classical Music Really Can Help With Depression, Finds Neuroimaging Study
"By using advanced brainwave measurements and neural imaging, the scientists identified that music engages a circuit connecting the auditory cortex and parts of the...
Comparing Tim Walz And J.D. Vance On Arts Issues
Vance has spent little effort in the Senate on the arts: his only notable action was introducing a Consequences for Climate Vandals Act, which...
“The West Wing” At 25: The Politics Were Beside The Point, Says Aaron Sorkin
“I thought, ‘What if there were a show about our leaders where these people are as competent and committed as the doctors and nurses...
Six Academic Publishers Targeted In Antitrust Lawsuit
"A group of scientists and scholars … filed a class action lawsuit against Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Taylor and...
