"Celia Fushille … is stepping down next year at the conclusion of the company's 30th season to hand her job to nationally acclaimed choreographer Amy Seiwert. … The news comes more than three months after Smuin Ballet hired Seiwert, a former company member and choreographer-in-residence, as associate artistic director." - San Francisco Chronicle
Private equity firm KKR is selling RBaudio, which it bought for a reported $500 million in 2018, to Miami investment firm H.I.G. Capital at an apparent 100% profit. Industry watchers consider KKR to be a leading candidate to buy Simon & Schuster. - Publishers Weekly
"The ENO will move to a base outside the capital by March 2029 – three years after originally envisaged. Before then, it will develop an artistic programme in its new city, while transitioning to a new business model that allows it to deliver a substantial season every year in (London)." - The Guardian
Modern mental wellness tools, like mindfulness apps and cognitive behavioral therapy, vary in approach but share a self-help strategy centered on self-surveillance. But encouraging inward focus for calm and understanding can lead to hypervigilance or excessive self-analysis. Art, on the other hand... - Aeon
As we explore new applications for large language models and consider how well they can optimize our communication, AI challenges us to reflect on the qualities we truly value in our prose. How do we measure the caliber of writing, and how well does AI perform? - Noema
How do you decide that the content you’re producing is actually generating value? That goes back to the question that we have about how to get the residual because if you can’t figure out what the value is going be, then how do you decide how to distribute the value downstream?” - The Guardian
So why has our theatre field contracted so precipitously in the past few months, with casualties recorded at every kind of theatre while at the same time many theatres, and not just on Broadway, continue to post encouraging box-office numbers and seem to be carrying on more or less as before? - American Theatre
"For three months after the end of the war, Mr. Barancik, then a 21-year-old private first class, assisted in the operations of a unit known as the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives section … whose mission to safeguard the artistic patrimony of Europe amid the destruction and plunder." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"Recognizable by her shaved head and elfin features, O'Connor began her career singing on the streets of Dublin and soon rose to international fame … but was known as much for her private struggles and provocative actions as for her fierce and expressive music." - AP
“I have never seen the piece in person but judging from the photograph it would appear to be a copy after Raphael. True connoisseurship relates to the expert judgment of the trained eye and is so much more than mechanically matching brushstrokes and images.” - The Art Newspaper
"He was not seeking to escape to a purely spiritual realm. He was not seeking religion. What he sought was peace of mind. The Gita seemed to provide precisely the right philosophy for an intellectual keenly attuned to the affairs of men and the pleasures of the senses." - BBC
Dámaso Rodríguez was artistic director at Portland’s Artists Repertory Theatre for nine years before stepping down in 2021. He co-founded Los Angeles troupe Furious Theatre in 2002 and worked as associate artistic director at Pasadena Playhouse, where Furious Theatre had a longtime residency. - Seattle Times
"Dance artists are increasingly inspired by the generative potential of AI, whether as a choreographic tool, a topic to probe onstage, or an entryway into the broader intersection of dance and technology. And it isn't just dance artists who are using AI in their practice." - Dance Magazine
