The new season of the podcast The Turning looks at the life of the choreographer; the heights, the difficulties, and the suffering that dancers experienced working with him, and how the still-powerful influence of his aesthetic led directly to many of the problems ballet is facing today. - MSN (The Washington Post)
The family, who wishes to remain unknown, had asked Malo de Lussac of auctioneers Daguerre Val de Loire to estimate the value of their house but instead discovered a masterpiece. - CNN
The director of the museum housing the work said that the board, parents and students of Tallahassee Classical School to come see the white marble statue's "purity," while the Italian city's mayor tweeted a personal invitation to the ousted school principal to visit Florence as his guest. - AP
Artists are fighting back, using a range of tactics from legal action to IT hacks, in order to protect their creative output and secure their employment in the face of this new phenomenon. - EuroNews
Starting in the 1970s, he overtook Alfred Deller as the world's leading male alto through his work with David Munrow's Early Music Consort of London, Christopher Hogwood's Academy of Ancient Music, and other ensembles, developing a large discography and blazing a trail for the current countertenor boom. - Gramophone
This was supposed to be the first full season since the pandemic for the orchestra in Saskatchewan's capital. Ticket sales, however, are down by almost 50% from before 2020 — which led to the decision to cancel next month's concerts. For now, May programming is still on. - Global News (Canada)
"The union ... will be launching the PAC in the first week of April, with the goal of contributing money to federal candidates who support Actors' Equity priorities" such as arts funding, expanded health insurance coverage, and the Performing Artists Tax Parity Act. - The Hollywood Reporter
The special prosecutor originally assigned to the case was legally obliged to withdraw, and now the judge has told Santa Fe's district attorney, whose office is badly understaffed, that she may not appoint another special prosecutor unless the DA's office steps away from the case entirely. - Variety
"The decision marks an end to 68 years of publication, starting with its founding in 1954 by Ronnie Dugger and including a six-year period under the helm of the legendary Molly Ivins from 1970 to 1976." - The Texas Tribune
The 87-year-old Estonian, for many years the world's most-performed living classical composer, and the 62-year-old Beninese singer-songwriter, a five-time Grammy winner, take this year's award alongside Island Records founder Chris Blackwell. - AP
Why now? "The legalization of abortion and same-sex marriage ... have marked the diminished power of the Roman Catholic Church alongside the greater empowerment of women. Brexit, while further complicating Ireland’s ever-fraught relationship with England, has perhaps sharpened the Irish sense of self." - The New York Times
For all the opportunities ChatGPT might bring, its greatest threat right now is to the teaching of writing. There are other ways to assess students’ knowledge: oral exams, multiple-choice tests, handwritten answers. So what is the university paper for? - The Walrus
Even without hard numbers, many of the designers, technicians and stage managers who are still around agree: there are more job contracts available in the Toronto theatre market than there are people to take them, which has piled on a pre-existing burnout problem. - Toronto Star
Millions of people love wrestling; millions more loathe it. Many people simply don’t know what to do with it. Although the symbiotic relationship between politics and wrestling goes back centuries, it is fair to say that Trump exploited WWE tools and tricks better than anyone who had come before him. - The Atlantic
"It’s over. The old days are gone. I get letters blaming me for $3,000 tickets for a benefit I am doing. That money does not go to me or the benefit. Artists have to worry about ripped off fans blaming them for Ticketmaster add-ons and scalpers." - The Guardian
