"Investigators opened a case this week against Yevgenia (Zhenya) Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, alleging that Petriychuk's Finist, the Brave Falcon, which premiered in 2020 under Berkovich's direction, had broken the law. … (The play) won two Golden Mask national theatre awards last year." - Reuters
"Based on Gogol's short story 'The Terrible Revenge,' the opera (by composer Yevhen Stankovych) was directed by Andreas Weirich. ... 'We did some of the rehearsals in the bomb shelter,' he said. 'At times there were four air raid sirens a day – it became a new normal.'" - The Guardian
"The original Barnes Foundation building in Lower Merion, which the foundation left in 2012 to move to the (Benjamin Franklin) Parkway in Philadelphia, is now exhibiting art again. St. Joseph's University has completed extensive renovations to the building which (has opened) as the Frances M. Maguire Art Museum." - WHYY (Philadelphia)
"Jesse Green, chief theater critic, was joined by the dance critic Brian Seibert and the contributor Elisabeth Vincentelli in a discussion about some of the choreographic shifts they've noticed in musical theater. Here are edited excerpts from the conversation." - The New York Times
"The Foreign Office was dismissive of the British Museum's efforts to retain the Parthenon Marbles in 1983. The question of where the marbles should reside came to the forefront when Greek culture minister Melina Mercouri famously visited London that year." - ARTnews
Paik once said, “It’s an artist’s job to think about the future.” This compelling film underscores why Paik should be considered the progenitor of video art, his work prophesying an “electronic superhighway…where everybody will have his own TV channel” a decade before the internet even existed. - ArtsFuse
To be sure, Paramount is hardly alone in its bloodletting. Warner Bros. Discovery, for instance, completed a series of layoffs as well as a corporate reorganization last year, while Disney is in the midst of cutting 7,000 positions across the company. - The Hollywood Reporter
With text, image, audio, and video all becoming easier for anyone to produce through new generative AI tools, I believe people are going to need to reexamine and recalibrate how authenticity is judged in the first place. - UnDark
During the past three years, we’ve caught glimpses of healthier ways to conduct business, produce more inclusive events and better support artists. Right now the dance community is teetering at a crucial edge. In an urgency to return to business as usual, there is a danger that we’ll do just that. - Dance Magazine
For as long as there has been music, there has been the practice of “contrafact,” the use of another song’s chord progression to create a new song. Every 12-bar blues song ever written sits on the chord progression I – I – I – I – IV – IV – I – I – V – IV – I...
"While an estimated 15,000 new arts teachers are needed statewide, (fewer) than 5,000 are currently credentialed in music, dance, theater, visual arts and media arts. ... Schools will also have to find time for arts classes in a day packed with academics and locate facilities (for) the courses." - Capitol Weekly (Sacramento)
A 2017 MacArthur fellow, Sorey is a musical universalist who has little use for categories and labels. He feels they are reductive and irrelevant in a post-genre world and often attaches a wary prefix to them: “so-called jazz,” “so-called classical,” “so-called hip-hop.” Nor does he care for the word “improvisation.” - Columbia Magazine
"Where modern theatre takes bold, controversial steps in some directions, on the matter of the monarchy, dissenting voices rarely make their way to a mainstream stage. Instead, recent dramatisations of royal life are almost universally positive and rarely, if ever, directly political." - Whynow (UK)
Kindle is to literature what Instagram or TikTok are to visual images, or Spotify to music. They have their uses, but it would be absurd for the British Library, the National Gallery or the Proms to rely on them to preserve our heritage, let alone declare themselves redundant. - The Critic
"(His) outrageous, sometimes shocking and occasionally — by today's standards — cancel-worthy cartoons are considered some of the funniest single-panel gags to ever appear in National Lampoon, The New Yorker and other magazines." - MSN (The Washington Post)
