Perryn Leech succeeded Alexander Neef as the company's CEO only three years ago and had two years remaining on his contract. The statement announcing his departure gave no reason other than that it was "by mutual agreement." - Toronto Star
Today, it is generally assumed that the arts and humanities are more feminine than the sciences. Comparing the two eras shows that our 21st-century assumptions are just as wrong-headed as those of the 19th century. - Nautilus
In Wright’s days, the venue would host weekly public movie screenings for 50 cents a ticket as well as concerts and other cultural events. However, the years were not as friendly to the theater as it had been to the Spring Green community. - Architectural Digest (MSN)
“We actually can be the place where discourse happens, where the dialogue about these issues surfaces,” she said. Museums are “safer places to do that” than other places in the world, where such discourse would be “extremely dangerous.” - The New York Times
A recent survey about the reading habits of Canadians conducted by BookNet Canada, which collects and analyzes data about the Canadian book industry, found that a majority of book readers and audiobook listeners in Canada acquired their books for free in 2023. - Publishers Weekly
"PC2170 would make dancers pay a fee to receive a certification and be able to practice professionally. Its purpose is to make dance a more legitimate profession and improve the working conditions of dancers, who have struggled with unfair wages and poor working conditions." Not everyone is convinced. - Remezcla
I’m not an advocate of doing in historically specific productions but look for this place of speculation that connects opera fundamentally with the world of science fiction. - San Francisco Classical Voice
"It (makes) sense that the movies are always horror, too, because that’s the genre with the most recognisable structures and beats. It’s far easier to understand the sudden arrival of a beloved character in a horror than in, say, a gentle coming-of-age drama." And next year are Popeye and Tarzan … - The Guardian
Google has agreed to pay $100 million CAD a year — or about $73 million in U.S. dollars — to broadcasters and other news outlets as part of the new Canadian Journalism Collective. The offer is made in exchange to be exempted from Canada’s Online News Act, which passed last year. - InsideRadio
"For many working in the arts across (New South Wales), the tone and priorities of the reformed model come as a surprise and sparks deep concern. Among those concerns is the reduction in funding categories under the tagline ‘Simpler’, which heightens the process's competitive nature and disadvantages smaller organisations." - ArtsHub (Australia)
California lawmakers have revived legislation to charge online platforms for the news articles they publish, a proposal that stalled last year amid divisions within the journalism industry and intense opposition from Google and other tech companies. - Yahoo!
A very popular performer at the Paris Opera Ballet, he left after getting caught in the middle of a notorious battle between Rudolf Nureyev and Maurice Béjart. Following a very successful freelance career, he ran the ballet troupes in, successively, Bordeaux, Avignon, Marseilles and Nice. - ResMusica (via Google Translate)
These situations aren’t that bad, and so you don’t do anything about them, whether it be to take action or kickstart psychological processes to cope. - Psyche
Sure, it doesn't have any particular melody or even a beat, but music it is. Various musicians liken it to Phil Spector's "wall of sound," ambient music, synth punk, drone music, a theremin … There's even a sax player who publicly jams with cicadas. - Chicago Tribune
The contracts for Benjamin von Blomberg and Nicolas Stemann, who had jointly run Zurich's Schauspielhaus since 2019, were not renewed following a right-wing media campaign claiming the "wokeness" of their productions drove audiences away. So last week they threw a final soirée called "House of Wokeness." - The Art Newspaper
