For their US debut, Seoul Metropolitan Dance Theater and stage director Kuho Jung have adapted the "il mu" dance from the royal Jongmyo Shrine, combining it and other ritual movement with contemporary dance to create the stage work One Dance. - The New York Times
Both the Armory Show, which is led by executive director Nicole Berry, and Expo Chicago, led by founder and president Tony Karman, will operate as separate divisions under Frieze with their existing teams but will share business services. - ARTnews
"The cultural nonprofit Mizhvukhamy is documenting these findings in Wall Evidence, an open archive created for future research (on) the Russian invasion." Some samples: "It was an order. Sorri." "I'll burn other people's villages with a smile." "Sorry for the mess, but it’s okay, Americans will help with cleanup." - Hyperallergic
Watts made his national concert debut when he was 16 years old with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. Shortly after, he was asked to substitute in place of Glenn Gould with the Philharmonic. That performance is credited with launching Watts’ career. - WFYI
"The Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer took revenge on his patron" — Jacob Heller, a wealthy Frankfurt merchant — "after a bitter row over pay by placing his own self-portrait in a 1500s altarpiece that he painted for him." - The Guardian
Says artistic director Oskar Eustis, "Our audience is down by about 30 percent, we have expenses up anywhere from 30 to 45 percent, and we have kept our donor base, but it's static. Put that all together, and you get budget shortfalls — big budget shortfalls." - The New York Times
"Disney is going to be 'expansive' in its thinking about the traditional TV business, leaving the door open to a possible sale of the networks. 'They may not be core to Disney,' Iger said. … Cable TV channel ESPN is in a different bucket, however. - CNBC
"The Charles River Jazz Festival started (in 2021) as a slapdash (post-pandemic) passion project with a $2,000 budget, four local acts and 500 attendees. … Now the all-day festival touts major sponsors, local vendors, food trucks, a lineup of Grammy- and Emmy-nominated artists and a board of directors." - WBUR (Boston)
"SAG-AFTRA members will not be able to attend premieres, do interviews for completed work, go to awards shows, attend film festivals or even promote projects on social media while the strike is in effect. They are also not allowed to attend conventions such as Comic-Con or 90s Con." - Variety
"The $97.6 million in bonds will be backed by property taxes, which surged in recent years as the city became a magnet for the wealthy. The sale is part of a broader effort by the barrier-island city to ditch its reputation as a spring-break destination." - Bloomberg CityLab
"The so-called Bus & Truck Touring Agreement pertains to IATSE crew members working on tours presented by (four corporations which) are not Broadway League producers. As part of the new agreement, IATSE said it had won the right for single occupancy housing while on the road." - The Hollywood Reporter
The global music industry surpassed 1 trillion streams at the fastest pace, ever, in a calendar year, Luminate's 2023 Midyear Report has found. The number was reached in three months, a full month faster than 2022. - Yahoo!
“So many of my friends who have nearly a million followers, who are doing billion-dollar franchises, don’t know how to make rent,” Glenn told me. That struggle has brought sag to the precipice of a potential strike. - The New Yorker
Sort of like ChatGPT, it pulls information from various websites, rewords it, and puts that text on top of your search results—pushing down any links you see. In the process, it stifles traffic to the rest of the internet, lessening the very incentive to post online. - MSN (The Atlantic)
While classical music has long been mired in cases of sexual abuse, the psychological and emotional abuse experienced by many young musicians is harder to pin down and often goes under the radar. - Evening Standard
