"We now have the answer: 'Dalí Alive 360°,' a new immersive experience showcasing the Spanish surrealist's works. It opens sometime this summer." - Tampa Bay Times
Christina Scheppelmann’s departure announcement comes amid leadership vacancies, or impending vacancies, at other high-profile Seattle arts organizations. - Seattle Times
"This spring, the professional regional theater in downtown Greensboro stopped selling tickets to shows while examining its options amid financial struggles. The group's volunteer board had hoped to find a path to save it as other regional theaters across the country shuttered in recent years." - Greensboro (NC) News and Record
"A comprehensive report published by Freelancers Make Theatre Work … reveals significant disparities in pay between male and female workers, amounting to a gap of 37.4%. … The sobering picture painted by the report continues, with average earnings for freelancers in the industry falling 17.5% below the U.K. national average salary." - Variety
"Many arts organizations," including such flagships as the San Francisco Symphony, "have seen their city funding reduced drastically or eliminated altogether. At the same time, up-and-coming theater companies and visual arts groups … are getting their first crack at a piece of the city's largesse." - MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
"Under the new rules, … a film will need to continue its run beyond the current requirement, a one-week theatrical release in one of six U.S. qualifying cities, ... to add an additional run of seven days, consecutive or nonconsecutive, in 10 of the top 50 U.S. markets." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"You know you’ve made a cultural impact when Henry Kissinger quotes your own joke back to you. That's what happened to Billy Crystal. … Also selected for the lifetime artistic achievement award are rapper/actor Queen Latifah, opera singer Renée Fleming, 1970s music icon Barry Gibb and prolific hitmaker Dionne Warwick." - AP
"With an outstanding $1 million debt and a 'long history of contractual default and related broken promises and commitments,' the Philly Pops is trying to 'force its way back into Verizon Hall,' the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc. alleged in a court filing Tuesday." - MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The ruling by the Court of Cassation "marks the fourth and final judicial instruction in this case. The legal battle started with (actress Sand) Van Roy's police complaints filed in May and July 2018. The case was dismissed by the Paris prosecutor ... in 2019, citing a lack of evidence." - Variety
"If the current spending pace continues through the end of the tour, the Eras Tour will have generated an estimated $5 billion in economic impact, more than the gross domestic product of 50 countries." - CBC
One day in 1990, I was flown first class from Dublin to Phoenix, Arizona, to read at the Irish Cultural Centre there. Five people turned up to listen to me. None of them had read my books, and it was clear that none of them had the slightest intention of doing so. - Esquire
Some 19th-century artists saw the advent of photography as a threat to painting. Instead of replacing painting, however, photography eventually liberated it from realism, giving rise to Impressionism and the Modern Art movement. - Science
That Riccardo Muti became music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at all is a miraculous anomaly due to a perfect storm of unexpected events. - New City
The idea, according to founding first violinist and Artistic Director David Harrington, was to commission 50 quartets from a variety of composers, and make those easily accessible, free of charge, to anyone who wanted to tackle them. - San Francisco Chronicle
At a time of unprecedented need, do organizations owe it to their communities to move more money out the door, even if it threatens its perpetuity? Or should trustees stay the course, ensuring that organizations can tackle challenges 10, 20 and 50 years from now? - Inside Philanthropy
