Faculty Sue Philadelphia’s University Of The Arts Over Abrupt Shutdown
"The plaintiffs — a group of professors, department heads and administrators — say the school did not give them 60 days' written notice of...
Exit Interview: Antonio Pappano On His 22 Years As Music Director Of London’s Royal...
"I believe that an opera performance should be something unified — so that what’s going on in the orchestra pit and onstage make complete...
Temple University Is Considering Merger To Save Philadelphia’s University Of The Arts
“I’m working with their chair to see if we can put this genie back in the bottle,” said Temple board chair Mitchell L. Morgan....
Now That Ron DeSantis Has Stopped Picking Fights With Them, Disney Plans To Invest...
"During the next decade or two, Disney would be approved to build a fifth major theme park at Disney World and two more minor...
Douglas Chrismas, Once One Of L.A.’s Top Gallerists, Convicted Of Embezzlement
"On Friday, after less than an hour of deliberation, the jury … (found) him guilty of embezzling more than $260,000 from the bankruptcy estate...
The Free Library Of Philadelphia Has A Much-Loved Author Events Program. Its Entire Staff...
"The former staffers said they offered their resignation due to what they described as a 'heartbreaking' work culture plagued by increasingly low morale over...
Big Shift In Popularity Of Giant Music Festivals
Events like Lovers & Friends, with big R&B names from decades past, sell out immediately while Coachella sales plummet. - The Guardian
The Delicate Politics Of Firing Your Funder
Under pressure from activists, both Hay and the Edinburgh international book festival have sacked their main sponsor, the investment fund Baillie Gifford, blowing a...
Is Queen’s Song Catalog Really Worth $1 Billion?
If the group achieve the $1 billion price tag, it will be the biggest deal of its kind, surpassing the $500 million (£393 million)...
NY Times Sues Worldle Over Its Wordle-Sounding Name
The creator of Worldle is vowing to fight back on the grounds that there are many other games with similar titles. “There's a whole...
The Orchestra Messiah?
His Decca recordings of Sibelius and Stravinsky are unconvincing — ceviche in patches, if not totally raw. His live concerts are perhaps more exciting,...
Time To Ban Smartphones In Schools
Children do not use cellular technology; the technology uses our children—by monetizing their data and converting their attention into advertising revenue. - The Walrus
Even More Trouble For The Philly Pops: A Lawsuit By Its Former Jazz Director
"In the latest in a string of financial and legal battles, the Philly Pops is being sued in a federal racketeering lawsuit by its...
The Pitfalls Of Today’s Movie Criticism
The biggest flaw for film writers, I began to realize, was that often writers are told to draft superfluous articles about celebrities to satisfy...
Hugues Gall, Civil Servant Who Reformed The Paris Opera, Is Dead At 84
After 15 years running Geneva's opera house, he returned to Paris to restore the national opera after years of shrinking audiences, administrative turmoil, the...
Be Prepared: A Weird Summer For Movies
Last weekend’s failures may mark the beginning of an unusual summer packed with Pyrrhic victories and well-reviewed but overlooked projects. Still, a bad Memorial...
Audiobook Sales In The U.S. Reached $2 Billion In 2023
"The most avid audiobook listeners consumed an average of 6.8 titles in 2023, the survey found, marking an increase from 6.3 in 2022. Among...
Alternatives to Higher Education Are Proliferating
"Programs that address this discontent exhibit a remarkably consistent set of characteristics. They are interdisciplinary, integrating methods and perspectives—from, say, engineering and the social...
The Louisiana Librarian Who Sued The Wingnuts That Said She Was Giving Kids Porn
"Amanda Jones vividly remembers the time she received her first death threat. … Jones lost 50 pounds, took medical leave from work and watched...
A White Canadian Journalist Just Published A Book About Traveling The US In Blackface
That publishing decision is not being met with glee in either the U.S. or Canada. “‘It's hard to simultaneously draw the ire of black...
How Broadway’s Latest Revival Of “Cabaret” Became A Red-Hot Ticket Despite (Or Because Of)...
For every rave like Entertainment Weekly's ("jaw-droppingly gorgeous from start to finish"), there's a critique like this from The New York Times ("too often...
Exit Interview: Stoner Winslett On Her 44 Years As Artistic Director Of Virginia’s Richmond...
"In the decades since she founded Richmond Ballet in 1980, she has grown the organization from a local troupe of 12 dancers with an...
Edinburgh’s Arts Community Up In Arms As One Of Its Favorite Venues Is Put...
"Summerhall, … (a) complex of galleries, theatres and a cinema … housed in the city’s former veterinary school, has earned a reputation as one...
Faced With Declining Attendance, Some U.S. Museums Are Trying “Radical Hospitality”
That's the term SFMOMA director Christopher Bedford uses; Hirshhorn Museum director Melissa Chiu calls it "radical accessibility." Ted Loos reports on how those two...
Ruth Reinhardt Named Music Director Of Rhode Island Philharmonic
A former assistant conductor at the Dallas Symphony and Dudamel Fellow at the L.A. Philharmonic, the 36-year-old German takes up her position in the...
