Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Is Getting A Real Theater — Designed By A MacArthur...
The new venue — sort of a deluxe, sturdy version of the tent the festival uses currently, with the Hudson River and highlands as...
Metropolitan Museum’s Attendance Numbers Are Getting Back To Normal — With One Exception
For the fiscal year just ended, US visitors totaled 5.5 million, slightly above the (pre-pandemic) figure for 2019. What's more, just over half of...
Barnes Foundation Lays Off 12 Staffers, Including Senior Execs
The Philadelphia museum has eliminated a dozen positions, about 6% of its staff, over six months, despite the fact that it has a budget...
Disneyland Avoids What Would Have Been Its First Workers’ Strike In 40 Years
"Disney has reached a tentative agreement with four unions representing thousands of workers at its California theme parks, including ride operators, candy makers and...
Alleged Victim At Center of New York Philharmonic Rape Scandal Reveals New Details
Cara Kizer, the horn player who was denied tenure after reporting an alleged rape by associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey, says now-former CEO Gary...
Dancers In Olympics Opening Ceremony Call Off Strike Threat
"After negotiations between the SFA-CGT union representing performers, Paris 2024 organizers and Panam 24 (the producers of the opening ceremony) ended in a stalemate...
John Eliot Gardiner Fired By The Board Of The Choir And Orchestra He Founded
While the conductor issued a subsequent statement maintaining that he had resigned, the announcement by the board said it had "made the decision that...
Lewis H. Lapham, Editor Who Resurrected Harper’s Magazine Twice, Is Dead At 89
Born into a very old and eminent family (though one no longer, by his day, very rich), he wrote about the American aristocracy with...
A Short History Of Olympics Opening Ceremonies
It took decades for Olympic opening ceremonies to reach this scale. At the first modern Olympics in 1896, in Athens, athletes simply entered the stadium...
San Francisco Symphony’s Ongoing Turmoil
Salonen’s anticipated departure casts a long shadow over the Symphony amidst a furor of concerns about leadership, transparency and board decisions. - San Francisco Chronicle...
What Truths Break Through: How Do You Know?
It is unclear how ordinary citizens can reliably evaluate the ideas circulating within the public sphere. Figuring out the truth about complex political issues is highly...
Streaming Companies Cut Back Production Spending
Disney, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery are all cutting back to reduce their streaming losses. Amazon has the resources to compete with Netflix, but is still figuring...
Claim: The UK’s Arts Funder Is A Mess
There’s something profoundly cynical in the way ACE used the last government’s ineptitude as cover for its own anti-classical agenda: its cack-handed assault on...
The UK Publishing World Is Overwhelmingly Run By Women. Why?
The publishing industry is suffering from a damaging gender imbalance. According to a recent UK publishers’ survey, 83 per cent of marketing, 92 per...
More Than Half A Million Britons Stopped Paying BBC License Fee Last Year
The annual tax, currently £169.50 ($219) and mandatory for any household with a television or using BBC's iPlayer online, is the national broadcaster's primary...
The 80s Literary Establishment Fades Into History
They were famous for round-robin letters to newspapers commenting on world affairs, for clogging up prize shortlists and, as their books declined in quality...
A Theatre Tries To Bridge The Divide At The Italy-Slovenia Border
The city of Gorizia/Nova Gorica was divided as the Iron Curtain arose after World War II, with an actual wall in place until 1994....
A Conductor Who Worked To Define Music History
According to the Boston Symphony, the orchestra gave 146 world premieres during his tenure, as well as another 86 U.S. premieres and many, many...
How A Dirt-Poor Trans Girl From Rural Argentina Became A Celebrated Author
"Growing up in the province of Córdoba, in the Argentine interior, (Camila Sosa Villada) inhabited a first-person, female voice in the stories that she...
Meet The Olympics Opening Ceremony’s Artistic Director
More than a billion people are expected to watch the July 26 opening ceremony. But Thomas Jolly, 42, is no stranger to outsized projects in...
The World Hub Of Afghan Music Is Now In Portugal
"'The Taliban tried to silence us,' said Ahmad Sarmast, the director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, in his new office in Braga,"...
At London’s “Slave Play”: Restricted Audiences Work For Those Who Attend
In London, the mood on the theater steps was upbeat and there seemed little concern that when this “Slave Play” transfer — including two...
Stephan Salisbury, Longtime Arts Writer For The Philadelphia Inquirer, Has Died At 77
"(He) fashioned a 43-year career at The Inquirer that featured hundreds of influential stories about Philadelphia’s art and culture and the people who shaped...
The Breakdancers Of Paris Are Skeptical About Their Discipline’s Inclusion In The Olympics
"(They) worry this is yet another attempt at gentrifying their art form and ways of life. (Breaker) Anne Nguyen … argues that the 'sportification'...
Sundance Film Festival Is Leaving Park City, Utah. Where Should It Go?
After 40 years, the festival seems to be acknowledging that it has outgrown its hometown. Last week organizers announced six finalist candidates for the...
