The musicians, who voted 97.4% in favor of the authorization, have been without a contract since July and have been negotiating with management since April. Their main complaint is being paid roughly 25% less than their peer orchestras in Canada while living in one of the world’s most expensive housing markets. - CBC
Base salary will increase by 12% from $92,811 to $101,350 over the next three years. The musicians’ union and orchestra management described the deal as the “most financially ambitious contract in more than a decade.” - The Baltimore Banner
This report analyzes the gender distribution of Artistic, Executive, and Associate/Assistant Directors, as well as Heads of Schools, Heads of Second Companies, Rehearsal Directors, and, for the first time, music directors and conductors among the 150 largest ballet and classically-based dance companies in the US. - Dance Data Project
“SOM's all-encompassing makeover of the 1.6 million-square-foot building involved returning to the original blueprints and faithfully restoring details that had been gradually altered over the years.” - Dezeen
The character sketch is a genre that is descriptive by nature, and that today reads as a little sociological, a little literary, and more than a little comic. While a part of our everyday discourse, this genre has a long history, stretching all the way back to ancient Greece. - Aeon
By taking the work into unconventional, donated spaces, they’re betting on a future where audiences don’t just consume theater but inhabit it. Time Out New York
Sado Island, just northwest of central Honshu, is home to 34 of the roughly 100 Noh theaters remaining in Japan. Elsewhere, Noh is considered an arcane genre practiced by specialized professionals; on Sado it’s an integral part of the local culture, learned by schoolchildren and performed by community members. - The New York Times
To manage the thousands of people who descend daily, operators have studied visitors’ behavior and engineered their parks to move people around without anyone realizing they’re being nudged. - The Atlantic (MSN)
Media organizations do not want cultural criticism the same way they do not want war reporting or fluffy opinion pieces as those specific things. They want those things as a way of getting what they actually want. - Notebook
You have always believed the arts are necessary ingredients of a healthy community, whether or not you used that language explicitly. We now know, through data and research, that it’s true. Yet, along with other care fields and organizations, we are being cast as unnecessary... - Arts Fuse
Located in Malvern, England, the Theatre of Small Convenience was once a public toilet; it measures 107 sf and seats 12. It was opened as a puppet theatre in 1997 but fell into disrepair after its founder retired in 2017; community members have saved it from demolition and remodeled it. - The Guardian
In another generation, intellectual historians like Dabhoiwala will look back to the present and ask themselves how it happened that, early in the 21st century, such a sizeable swath of the Anglophone intelligentsia turned against one of its own best, and most ennobling, traditions. - The Point
"If we want a museum that will collect and display the most daring and challenging artists of our time, then we will have to fight for that. If we want a museum that is a home for artists, scholars, curators and visitors from around the world, then we will have to speak out loudly for that.”
“A tradition dating back to 1954, the Dance Magazine Awards are given in appreciation of the artistry, integrity, and resilience that dance artists have demonstrated over the course of their careers. The 2025 awards have a special West Coast focus.” - Dance Magazine
Ultimately, China gets to keep the TikTok algorithm, simply licensing the algorithm to the US instead of handing over the heart of TikTok's success. As Ars previously reported, that means the US could end up with a glitchier version of TikTok. - Ars Technica
