“Like a page-turner for a pianist or a sheet music librarian, music editor is the kind of job that only the idiosyncratic structures of classical music can produce.” - The New York Times
The agreement will be closely scrutinized by New York’s other Off Broadway theaters because the union, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, has undertaken a major drive to organize those stage crews. - The New York Times
Unlike in the film and television industry, where workers who jump from set to set on major projects tend to flock to health plans co-governed by their unions, use of labor group-administered insurance among recording artists is spottier. - The Hollywood Reporter
Citizenship had supplied Fugard with his mission as a writer. But he understood the difference between art and politics and resisted anyone dictating his agenda as a playwright. - Los Angeles Times
“Three artists have been commissioned to create the first wave of installations for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new David Geffen Galleries, scheduled to open in April next year. The expansive site-specific works will help to define the look and feel of the Peter Zumthor-designed building.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
“Leaders for S.C. Public Radio and S.C. Educational Television said they are beginning the process of unwinding their membership from NPR to focus more resources on locally produced and focused content. ... While it does not mean an elimination of NPR-produced content, there will be much less of it.” - The Post and Courier (Charleston)
“The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for only about 2½ hours before deciding that the creators of Moana never had access to writer and animator Buck Woodall’s outlines and script for Bucky the Surfer Boy.” - AP
In response to a lawsuit filed last week by the ACLU, the National Endowment for the Arts dropped its requirement that applicants pledge on their applications not to use grant money to “promote gender ideology.” The NEA has not, however, revoked the new criteria making organizations which do so ineligible for grants. - Artnet
“The donation, from the philanthropists Lynne and Richard Pasculano, is the largest Lincoln Center has ever received for programming initiatives. Lincoln Center hopes the gift will help revive the city’s dance industry after the coronavirus pandemic.” - The New York Times
The justices ordered a Federal appeals court to reexamine its ruling in favor of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, currently in possession of Camille Pissarro’s “Rue St. Honoré, dans l’après-midi. Effet de pluie.” The family of Holocaust survivor Lilly Cassirer has fought to recover the painting for 20 years. - The Washington Post (MSN)
“(The) much-honored Atlantic Theater Company and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees have reached a tentative agreement that could see the Atlantic become the first-ever not-for-profit theater company producing solely Off-Broadway shows to have such a union agreement.” - Deadline
One day I was perfectly fine, and now, after just a few weeks away, confidence and sureness were gone. Simply put, I had lost my professional intuition. Although that explanation may seem imprecise, intuition is real, and, without it, experts lose their bearings. - Aeon
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. - The New Yorker
In 1965, Mr. Sellers and William Reineke, graduates of the Yale School of Architecture, had the radical idea that structures turned out better if they were built by the architects who had designed them. - The New York Times
“People are much more selective now. In general, they see fewer productions each year and are more picky about what they’re seeing. And that’s true across the country. It’s been a wake-up call for us (about) what people really want to see.” - CultureOC
