It Seems We Are Not The Only Primates Who Dance
Researchers in Germany and France have analyzed the stylized movements of some female gibbons, and they've found that, defining dance as "an intentional movement...
Unknown Piece By Mozart Discovered
The piece dates to the mid to late 1760s and consists of seven miniature movements for a string trio lasting about 12 minutes, the...
San Francisco Symphony Finds Few Fans For Its Present Course
"I continue to be struck by the fact that the current leadership of the San Francisco Symphony really has no defenders in any press:...
About 170 Layoffs At Atlantic Music As Streaming Levels Off
The streaming boom that lifted the music industry’s fortunes in the mid-2010s after years of decline has leveled off, — with the recorded-music industry posting just...
Lin-Manuel Miranda Gives Status Of Possible “The Warriors” Musical
This project started, as Hamilton did, as a concept album, which is being released next month. Miranda said that he won't proceed with creating...
Federal Court Rules That Big Bird Is Not Racist
Five Black and Hispanic families sued the Sesame Place theme park in suburban Philadelphia, alleging that their children were ignored by costumed performers there...
Soprano Lucine Amara, Met Opera Mainstay For Four Decades, Is Dead At 99
She sang 748 performances in 56 roles at the Met between 1950 and 1991. Many of those performances were last-minute: for many years she...
Newspaper Giant Axel Springer Is Separating From The Private Equity Firm That Owns It
The finance firm KKR bought the controlling interest in Axel Springer — which owns German news outlets Bild and Die Welt along with US...
San Francisco Symphony Cancels Season Opener As Chorus Goes On Strike
"More than 150 musicians and patrons joined the Symphony Chorus, which formed a picket … in front of Davies Symphony Hall an hour and...
Frick Collection Names New Director As It Prepares To Return Home
The incumbent, Ian Wardropper, announced last year that he would be retiring in 2025 as the museum returns to its now-renovated Manhattan mansion home....
New York Philharmonic Players Get 30% Raise In New Contract
"The deal with Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians calls for raises of about 15% in 2024-25, and 7.5% each in 2025-26...
Hans Haacke, The First Artist To Confront American Museums With Politics
Before Haacke, museums were considered … 'genteel and politically marginal.' Robber barons might have donated to them to enhance their social clout, but such...
The Slang Of The Victorian Era Was Surprising, Fresh
From the bizarre sense of humour apparent in their Christmas cards – depicting murderous frogs, mice riding lobsters, and even waltzing beetles – to the off-beat...
Exploring The Biology Of Radical Self-Delusion
We all suffer from delusions, and we all, like Oedipus, use tricks of self-deception to keep ourselves from acknowledging truths about our lives. Yet...
It’s A Brave Actor Who’ll Play Abraham Lincoln At Ford’s Theatre
Yet that's exactly what Scott Bakula will be doing when he assumes the title role in Herbert Mitgang’s 1979 solo play Mister Lincoln at...
Manhattan DA Returns $8.3 Million Of Looted Antiquities To Turkey
The objects in question were linked to several ongoing investigations, among them, a trafficking network that systemically looted the ancient city of Bubon in...
The Imperative For Museums To Evolve Into Something New
For museums questioning how to make a sustained and long-term impact, the key factor is access. How do we define the public we’re aiming...
How New York’s Jam-Packed Fall For Dance Festival Gets Programmed
Stanford Makishi, vice president and artistic director of dance at New York City Center: "We literally have companies written on Post-it notes on a...
Broadway’s Signature Theatre Names A New Artistic Director
At Ars Nova, Emily Shooltz fostered the work of dozens of early-career playwrights the organization commissioned and developed for production, and over 100 others...
UK Arts Organizations Are Rejecting Corporate Funding. A Risky Strategy?
Could these increasingly messy call-outs and protests, personal attacks on social media and public decouplings result in an already woefully underfunded arts sector destroying...
San Francisco Symphony Facing Its Biggest Crisis Ever
The symphony believes one way to attract audiences is to showcase what few cities have, a one-of-a-kind performing arts scene, which also includes the...
How Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker” Has Remained An Important Book For 50 Years
"Half a century after its publication, (this) epic biography of urban planner and city-destroyer Robert Moses needs no revival. From the moment it was...
Ace Auctioneer: 14 Factors That Make Art Valuable
"I have put together a list of 14 criteria that convey financial value to a work of art. While the first point is emotional, all...
Universal Music: Betting The Future On A Superfans Strategy
Streaming equalizes the monetization across all fans, despite the fact that superfans listen to music a few hours every day, and yet casual fans...
Universal Music Chief: Streaming Will Power Music Business For Years To Come
“Fact number one”, according to Grainge, is that “streaming has resulted in a quantum leap forward in music access and monetization and streaming will continue to...
