In a flurry of unexpected strategic decisions, holiday news dumps and pure opportunism, the social landscape suddenly looks up for grabs (at least for a certain type of platform), and its future remains unwritten. - The Hollywood Reporter
For years he managed the tricky business of remaining a committed Catholic at Elizabeth's Protestant court before settling in a rural haven. He wrote an extraordinary body of sacred music — large-scale and small-, in English and Latin — along with keyboard and chamber works, madrigals and solo songs. - The New York Times
Comments from Caroline Shaw, James MacMillan ("Classical music audiences tend to forget about the pre-Baroque, and it's a pity because William Byrd is one of music history's great figures"), Roxana Panufnik, and Nico Muhly (There's always a Byrd for something"). - The New York Times
Change in the leadership, direction, and procedures of the SF Grants for the Arts reduced or eliminated support for dozens of organization, big and small. - San Francisco Classical Voice
He was a virtuoso, able to match any jump by Nureyev or Baryshnikov (and he worked with both). But, at 5'2", he'd never dance romantic leads. That gave him time to do theatre and movies and TV, party with Elton John and Freddie Mercury, and become a household name. - The Guardian
France has long been associated with a specific version of the good life, from haute cuisine to haute couture. In the global imagination, the French excel not only at putting quality before quantity, but also in distributing the finer things more widely than their Anglophone counterparts. - Aeon
Part of the stack of paperwork required for an O-1 visa is evidence that the dancer or ensemble applying possesses "extraordinary ability." Reviews from recognized outlets (since CIS agents aren't usually dance experts) are just such evidence. Yet there are fewer and fewer reviews, even in major cities. - Dance Magazine
It may have been a necessary compromise for a time, but it was never truly proper in terms of justice, stability or general social acceptance. - The New York Times
"In the firms that cater to mid-market developments, art-school graduates spend their days pumping out huge volumes of the kind of innocuous work a person might gaze at across a hotel bar while winding down after a real-estate-brokers conference in Kansas City." - MSN (Curbed)
“Dancers are better able to connect that incoming sensory information, whether it’s visually through the eyes, or through touch, and then connect that to motor output.” - WVTF
"When I watch the shows each year, I feel like I'm at a church pageant for a religion I don't belong to. It's as if it's not supposed to be good theater; it's supposed to be moral instruction that even a child could understand." - MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
"For decades after The Joy Luck Club, the handful of movies with Asian-American casts mostly offered family-centric stories filled with generational hardship, sacrifice and culture clash. But now … audiences are finally getting to see all dimensions of the Asian-American experience — even the weird, bad and raunchy parts." - The New York Times
"The crisis is a perfect storm of bad economic and demographic trends, exacerbated by a change in cultural habits during the pandemic. … The confluence has theater business professionals issuing dire warnings. 'By this time next year, I think the industry will shrink by half,'" said one consultant. - MSN (The Washington Post)
"By the spring of 2023, the promise of the Cultural Plan" — equity — "had gotten shoved to the side, as the so-called 'Big 7' ... struggled just to keep the doors open." Now the pandemic seems to be past, but audiences have been slow to return, and the city is recalibrating. - KERA (Dallas)
"Nancy Yao, who had been criticized for her handling of sexual harassment allegations at a New York museum, has withdrawn from a prestige post as the Smithsonian's founding director of a new women's history museum … 'due to family issues that require her attention.'" - MSN (The Washington Post)
