Utah Choreographer Hit With Multiple Accusations of Sexual Harassment
When dancer Sybley Wozmak put up an Instagram post about her experience with a well-connected Salt Lake City choreographer, she got 250 responses in...
Nostalgia For Big-Box Bookstores? Really? Yes, Really.
"Chain box stores were big businesses, sure, but they were also a crucial third space for casual hangouts and serendipitous run-ins that metro suburbs,...
As The Pandemic Hit, Which Funders Came To The Rescue?
With so many venues losing earned income by closing their doors as COVID spread, individual donors and foundations increased their giving, but government emergency...
Nielsen, The Media Ratings Giant, Is Sold To Hedge Fund Group
"In a deal valued at $16 billion, Nielsen has agreed to sell itself to a consortium of private equity firms led by Evergreen Coast...
The World’s Most Visited Museums In 2021
Topping the list as usual is the Louvre, followed by the State Russian Museum (Mikhailovsky Palace) in St. Petersburg. (Where's the National Museum of...
Anne Parsons, Longtime Detroit Symphony CEO, Dead At 64
Over a 17-year tenure, she stabilized the orchestra's finances; led it through the Great Recession, a bitter 2011 strike, and COVID; saw the appointment...
Towards A New Definition Of Scholarship
“We believe the time has come to move beyond the tired old ‘teaching versus research’ debate and give the familiar and honorable term ‘scholarship’...
The Difficulty Of Telling History
There is no one past. There are countless pasts. Mine. Yours. The billions, or at least millions, of people who were alive at any...
Why This Moment Of Crises Is An Opportunity For Artists
Change is an act of creation, and that’s what artists do: Through a process of imagining, trying and building, artists create experiences that connect us...
A San Francisco Dance Powerhouse Turns 50
The dance school offers an array of classes that are now both virtual and, finally, in-person. The theater offers some 150 performances a year...
The Motion Picture Academy Says It’s Trying To Be More Diverse. How’s It Doing?
Even after that change, and after another year of invitees in 2021 that continued the trend, the Academy still stands at 81 percent white...
Not To Be Outdone By Abu Dhabi, Qatar Is Building Three More Major Museums
As Abu Dhabi continues work on its starchitect-studded Saadiyat Island cultural district, Qatar is following suit with Lusail (designed by Herzog and de Meuron),...
Indian State Gives Money To Takes Young Students To Museums
Bihar’s Ministry of Education has pledged to provide 20,000 rupee ($260) to every primary school in the state for museum visits, with the money...
Over 20 Years, Grant Gershon Has Transformed The L.A. Master Chorale
Before he took the helm, it was a group of largely amateur singers doing "the chestnuts of the golden age of choral music." Now...
The Internet As An Idea (That We’re Trapped In)
The crisis really heats up when the algorithm’s structuring power bends back upon us and constrains us into thinking of ourselves as if we...
A National Geographic Brief History Of Hula
How a sacred Hawaiian dance and music ritual was canceled, commercialized, and finally, revived. - National Geographic
How Much Of Their Work Should Choreographers Post Online?
It’s a complex calculus, asking artists to become experts in marketing, video editing and budgeting, in addition to dancemaking. But when it comes to...
Even With The Will Smith-Chris Rock Bitch-Slap, There Are Two Americas
Jemele Hill: "By that I mean: Black people and white people aren't necessarily talking about the incident in the same way. … I can't...
The Music Catalog Business Is Booming
Catalog valuations have shot up in recent years. In 2021, investors paid multiples equivalent to around 22 times the net publisher’s share of royalties—a...
RT America, The Russian State Broadcaster’s DC Bureau, Was Just Weird
"But its weirdness is much harder to explain if you can't look at any of its deeply weird clips," most of which have vanished...
Aaron Sorkin Is Writing A New Script For “Camelot”
André Bishop, chief of Lincoln Center Theater (where the show debuts next fall) and director Bartlett Sher asked Sorkin to consider the project. "It...
Post-Sacklers, Museums Are Adding “Morals Clauses” To Donor Agreements
"When a wealthy donor agrees to support an institution in return for naming rights, the lawyers increasingly draw up contracts with carefully worded 'morals...
Archaeologists Discover 9,000-Year-Old Shrine In Jordan
"Located in the Khashabiyeh Mountains …, the shrine features two large standing stones carved with anthropomorphic figures, as well as an altar and hearth....
Did Target Yank A Bunch Of LGBTQ Books From Its Website?
"On March 25, word started to spread on Twitter that a multitude of LGBTQ books — many of them by debut authors — were...
New York City’s New Mayor Suggests Cutting $72 Million From Arts Budget
In February "the mayor released a preliminary budget for fiscal year 2023 that proposes slashing one-third of the city's culture budget. So how does...
