An Excellent Question: “When Will Publishing Stop Starving Its Young?”
Molly McGhee, an assistant editor at the Macmillan sci-fi imprint Tor Books, just saw her first acquisition hit the NYT Bestseller List at #3...
Russian-Owned Philips Auction House Faces Rocky Future
Despite it donating £5.8m to the Ukrainian Red Cross Society from a recent auction in London, and its CEO condemning the Russian invasion, those...
A Young Belarusian Conductor Reports From The Polish-Ukrainian Border
Vitali Alekseenok's had been expecting to spend March and April working in Ukraine, including at the Kharkiv Music Festival, which he directs. Instead, he...
St. Louis Symphony Plans Makeover And Reconception Of Its Home
The new project, which includes both renovations to the existing structure and a 65,000-square-foot expansion, is focused on accessibility and furthering community connections. - St. Louis...
Meet The Consultant Who Rescues Hollywood Execs From Cancel Culture — Meaning From Their...
"At some point during the pandemic, Hollywood's creative underclass realized it had power — on Slack, on Twitter, and in blind quotes to a...
Did Capitalism Strand Classical Music?
Capitalism first created the space in which such music could flourish, and then took it away, leaving behind a frozen, formalized tradition. - Jacobin
After 11 Years, Rubens’ Massive (And Very Heavy) “Baptism Of Christ” Is Brought Out...
The 13½-by-22-foot, 1,225-pound painting is back in place at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, which is about to reopen after a...
From Vaccine Rules To Visas To Shipping Delays, The Dance World Is Having A...
Sarah Kaufman: "To better understand the pressures facing these artists and how they'll affect audiences, I spoke with presenters, consultants and company leaders about...
Youth America Grand Prix Finds Ballet Schools To Take In Ukrainian Contestants
Academies at top companies all over western and central Europe have given refuge to more than 60 young dance students since the war started,...
Museums In Shanghai And Shenzen Close Again As China Faces Another Wave Of COVID
At least seven major institutions in Shanghai's West Bund and Pudong districts shut their doors on March 10, just before local schools were closed....
Strike At Chicago’s PBS Station
"Broadcast technicians and other employees at WTTW-Channel 11 went on strike Wednesday at the ... public television station shortly before the start of the...
France Creates €1 Million Emergency Fund For Refugee Ukrainian Arts Workers
"The emergency reception program will finance Ukrainian artists and cultural professionals and their families for a period of three months (with) residencies within the...
Russian Air Force Bombs Theater Where More Than 1,000 Ukrainians Were Sheltering
Very luckily, it appears that most of the civilians inside the Mariupol Drama Theater were able to get down to the building's bomb shelter...
Ballerina Quits Bolshoi Ballet Over War
It was announced on Wednesday that Olga Smirnova, who was born and raised in St Petersburg, has now joined the Dutch National Ballet, where...
The Siren Call Of Cosmopolitan Universal Language
Latin, classical Arabic and Sanskrit were no one’s mother tongue. They are cosmopolitan tongues, mega-languages that evolved to facilitate communication between local dialects, then expanded...
New York’s New Wage Transparency Law Will Affect The Arts
“The US art world is notorious for being vague about salaries. A job might pay $40,000; it might pay $80,000. Right now, you can’t...
This Scientist Has Worked Out A Model Of Human History That Suggests Bad Times...
Peter Turchin has been warning for a decade that a few key social and political trends portend an “age of discord,” civil unrest and...
EU Approves Amazon Acquisition Of MGM
The European Commission, which reviewed the merger, said it would not significantly reduce competition. - Axios
Study: Pandemic Recovery Across The Arts Is Uneven
While reductions in sales and revenues in 2020 were universally catastrophic, the pace of recovery between and within nations in 2021 was very varied,...
Paul Taylor Dance Company Chooses Classical Ballet Star As Resident Choreographer
"Until the fall, Lauren Lovette was an esteemed principal at New York City Ballet, but now she has crossed over into modern dance and...
Museums Are Re-Examining Their Security Arrangement Following MoMA Stabbings
"Given the rarity of violence within museums, most are protected by security guards who are typically unarmed and capable of detecting and responding to...
Beloved Musical Theatre Coach Dies After Being Shoved
Barbara Maier Gustern, a celebrated Broadway singing coach who worked with the likes of Debbie Harry, Justin Vivian Bond and Taylor Mac, has died...
William Forsyth: What Makes Great Dance
You have to ask: why are people in the theatre? With dance, especially classical ballet, it still often does have to do with some...
Remembering Dance Legend Yuriko, 102
Known simply as Yuriko, she could project innocence, serenity or a mystical quality onstage. Yuriko also starred on Broadway in The King and I...
The Design For Melbourne’s Huge New Contemporary Art Museum Is Revealed
The nearly 200-foot-tall NGV Contemporary — which, at 323,000 square feet (140,000 of display space), will be Australia's largest art museum when it opens...
