Gap In Museum Pay Is Widening
Museum directors brought home an average annual salary of $320,600, compared to $317,500 in 2019. Meanwhile,visitor services associates, who were most impacted by job...
San Diego Opera In Its Best Financial Shape Ever
The company’s endowment, which was $4.8 million when Executive Director David Bennett arrived in 2015, has nearly doubled to $8.8 million. - San Diego...
Tik Tok – Now Three Times As Long?
Rather than 60-second video limit, TikTokkers will have three minutes. Will that make them more or less creative? - The Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Battles With Insurers Over COVID Claims
Fireman’s Fund gives the example of a nonessential crewmember having face-to-face contact with a movie director and then reporting infection, requiring a costly shutdown...
Does It Matter Where Arts Funding Comes From?
It seems artists are now welcome to protest about funding arrangements. But this is a no-win situation for the artists. - ArtsHub
Yeah, Well — We’re A Sucker For Those Dancing Robot Videos – This Time...
"While Spot’s smooth dance moves might bring a frisson of worry to any K-pop fans thinking that K-pop boy-bands might be the next industry...
The New Hotness In Exotic Dance? Lesbian Doms Performing For Straight Women
" are pioneering a new style: masculinized lesbian stripping that appeals both to the LGBTQ community and to a straight female crowd — the...
Discovered: Evidence Van Gogh Was A Founder Of A Brass Band (Still Playing Today)
In 1884 Vincent van Gogh helped set up a band in the village of Nuenen, where he was living with his family and developing...
What Makes Aristophanes Relevant Today? Call It ‘Patriotic Obscenity’
"When adversaries in politics go low, one has no choice but to go equally low, if not lower, in order to have the same...
New York Times Experiments With Insta/Twitter To Focus Stories
"You have the copy of the tweet, a couple of lines in the card, and then it’s just a lot more information and context,...
This Flight Attendant Wrote A Hair-Raising Novel By Jotting It On Cocktail Napkins
Author T.J. Newman: "I said , 'What would you do if your family was kidnapped and you were told that if you didn't crash...
So Yale Theatre School Tuition Will Be Free. Is This A Good Thing?
The fascinating idea is that the free tuition even can expand exponentially to help yet more artists. It’s an interesting argument, rarely applied to...
Bollywood Isn’t Nimble Enough To Have Made COVID Films Already, But This Indian Film...
The Malayalam-language cinema, based in India's best-educated state, Kerala, has managed to produce compelling dramas dealing with the pandemic — from a two-hander shot...
Martha Nussbaum And The Striving In Structures
For her entire career, Nussbaum, now seventy-four, has blazed a trail for women in philosophy, a field that historically has not welcomed female thinkers....
How Do You Prove Opera Singers Can Act? Put Them In ‘King Lear’
Director Keith Warner assembled a cast made up entirely of opera singers, headed by such major names as John Tomlinson, Thomas Allen, Kim Begley,...
How Charleston Is Finally Reckoning With Its History In The Slave Trade
From the Old Slave Mart on Chalmers Street to historic plantations and downtown mansions to the new International African American Museum to walking tours...
A Deep Dive Into The Ancient Egyptian Tombs At Saqqara
Once the necropolis for the Pharaohs' capital city of Memphis, Saqqara has lately been the most exciting and productive archaeological site in Egypt. Here's...
It’s The Chinese Communist Party’s 100th Birthday, And Socialist Realism Is Back
Not only are they reviving classics of the Cultural Revolution like The Red Detachment of Women, new works celebrating the Party's achievements are being...
Chicago Tribune Puts Theater Critic Chris Jones In Charge Of Editorial Page
The move follows the paper's loss of 40 journalists since Alden Global Capital bought the Tribune earlier this year. Jones says he'll continue to...
Composer Louis Andriessen Dead At 82
He combined Philip Glass-style minimalism with influences ranging from jazz to Baroque music to Stravinsky to hard rock, not to mention leftist politics. He...
Daniele Gatti To Succeed Zubin Mehta In Florence
Fired from Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2018, Gatti then had a stint as chief conductor at the Rome Opera. He now succeeds the...
Stolen Picasso, Mondrian Found In Ravine In Greece
In custody is not a gang of thieves who planned a Hollywood-style heist, but a 49-year-old construction worker, with the Twitter name ArtFreak, who...
Why Writers Need Agents
Writers need agents more than agents need writers. They have needed them since the late 19th century, when an increasingly literate public fed by...
Let’s Talk About Green Things In Movies (Fascinating)
What makes a good greensperson? The best of them know how and where to get things, no matter how rare or obscure or out...
How The Pandemic Has/Is Changing The Ways We Look At Art
What I did not expect was how these installations would speak to one another, and to me, about the pandemic. - Artnet
