When management fired the entire main company in August, the dancers said it was because they tried to unionize; management said that a social media video the dancers made violated longstanding rules covering DBDT members' behavior. The dancers respond that those rules are rigid and severely outdated. - KERA (Dallas)
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 there were 84,600. By 2021, that figure was down to 51,161, though an additional 3,721 jobs were added in the next two years. - Publishers Weekly
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 artistic directors, still roughly 60% male and 40% female. And more women were replaced by men last year than vice versa. - Dance Data Project
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 and sold off in the mid-1700s. Except for one cherub in the corner and a bit of Faith, the panels have now been recovered and restored. - Artnet
"At the core of the dispute is what the union identifies as an unacceptable wage gap between NSO musicians and their peers in orchestras of similar size and stature, including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic." - The Washington Post (MSN)
Wilde’s grandson said of the sculpture: “It seems to say ‘here is a monument to a man whom society decapitated’. How do we want to remember him? Amusing, entertaining, engaging or carved up and beheaded for breaking the law of the time? I know which I prefer.” - The Observer
“Others had similar ideas, but he was the one who did it. The tube map really is something that deserves to be called iconic: it is even an international icon really, because so many people have used it as the basis of their own network designs.” - The Guardian
Jaeden Izik-Dzurko took home the top prize, along with a cash award of roughly $54,000, following his final performance at St. George's Hall in Bradford, about 325 kilometres northwest of London, on Saturday. - CBC
Unicorns are, unsurprisingly, hard to find. In dance, that’s led to a sort of executive director musical chairs, with some successful executives rotating through multiple organizations. - Dance Magazine
Footage from CCTV cameras - posted on Ai Weiwei's Instagram account - showed a man vigorously pushing the sculpture over, breaking it and then holding a piece of it over his head. - Reuters
The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council’s new strategic plan seems like an exception. With a candor that verges on the self-excoriating, the group’s report announcing the five-year plan itemizes its past errors and seeks to chart a new course in how it serves the local arts community. - WESA
A DC Circuit panel struggled with both the idea of granting copyright protection for AI-produced works and a computer scientist’s framing of his case to do so during oral argument Thursday. - Bloomberg
It’s no surprise that the courts have sided with the publishers. For decades, copyright law has increasingly served the interests of large companies, narrowing the scope of use for individuals while extending rights-protection terms for owners. In today’s world, “intellectual property” takes precedence over access to content. - Jacobin
