Met Museum, Having Difficulty Finding Guards To Staff Galleries, Increases Pay
Until last month, guards starting at the Met had been paid $15.51 an hour, just above the $15 minimum wage for fast food workers...
San Francisco Ballet Looks To Europe For Its New Artistic Director
Tamara Rojo will be the first woman and only the fifth director to lead the troupe, the oldest professional ballet company in the United...
Why Thomas Dausgaard Abruptly Quit The Seattle Symphony?
Dausgaard, 58, had seemed a good fit for his position, which he had held just since fall 2019. But he was separated from the...
A History Of Tackiness
Tackiness, it would seem, has always been in the eye of the beholder—a disapproving audience, real or imagined, clicking their proverbial tongues. They usually...
Slippery Slope? Artists Are Boycotting This Year’s Sydney Festival Over Its Funders
If an arts organisation accepts money from a donor, there is always a price to pay. It’s a question of how high the price...
How A Major Gift Turned Into A Shiny New Gallery For Indigenous Art In...
Against the promise of his holdings of Aboriginal art, Gantner urged Shepparton to build a standalone gallery and for it to become a not-for-profit...
In South India, Weddings Are Becoming Great Big Dance-A-Ramas
In the state of Kerala, the actual ceremony may be brief and subdued, but the celebrations often include professional choreographers directing a mix of...
Australian Arts Facing Labor Shortages
There is growing evidence of worker shortages for live shows. It’s clear there is a gap left by workers who left the arts during 2020/2021 lockdowns, resulting in a reduced pool of staff to call on when...
A New Molière Play (?!) At The Comédie-Française For The Playwright’s 400th Anniversary
The world's oldest operating theatre company has pieced together what it says is the original version of Tartuffe, premiered in 1664 and promptly suppressed...
Of Norman Mailer And Cancel Culture
A culturally and politically monotone graduate class, on board with just about every woke nostrum going, not only dominates publishing houses’ workforce – it...
It’s Not Just Vinyl: CDs Made A Comeback Last Year, Too
"The recorded music industry may no longer be laser-focused on the compact disc, but the format's sales grew in 2021 for the first time...
Why I Quit Being A Classical Musician
"I’ve been working to know myself apart from my identity as a musician, which I always held in higher regard than my inherent worth...
Modernizing China’s Ancient Writing System Has Always Been A Political Project
Through the centuries, the complexity of classical Chinese characters functioned as a powerful class barrier, since mastering reading and writing took so much work....
Are NFTs Facilitating Theft Of Artists’ Work?
As the NFT art market takes off, systems to ensure a buyer is making a legitimate purchase of digital ownership have failed to keep...
What Does Germany’s New Culture Minister Have Planned? “Green Culture”
"Claudia Roth has taken office pledging to continue her predecessor's work in decolonising museums, to set up a central 'green culture' desk, to boost...
Now Boris Johnson Corruption Accusations Extend Even To Arts Festivals
Texts from the Prime Minister's phone indicate that the man paying for renovations to Boris's apartment at 10 Downing Street was pitching him on...
Prehistoric Rock Art In Texas “Irreparably Damaged” By Jackass Vandals
The petroglyphs, at least 4,500 years old, in Big Bend National Park were ruined by "Isaac, Ariel, Norma, (and) Adrian," who carved their names...
President Of America’s Largest Public Radio Station Departs After Two Difficult Years
Goli Sheikholeslami, who's leaving to become CEO of Politico, faced a firestorm over a program cancellation the week after she arrived at WNYC, where...
The Reason Audie Cornish Left NPR Was To Take A Job At CNN
"Cornish will host a weekly show for the network’s subscription streaming service, set to debut in the spring, and will contribute to its live...
Mezzo-Soprano Maria Ewing Dead At 71
Perhaps best known these days as the mother of Rebecca Hall and the ex-wife of Peter Hall, she had a stellar career in the...
The Magic Of A Rare Bach Recording
Of vinyl, Ralph Kirkpatrick, a perfect winter for merging records - and a desire for order. "The forms and functions of the WTC offer...
American Shakespeare Center Names A New Director
Brandon Carter, a resident actor with ASC since 2018, assumes the directorship in a new management structure that the company describes as “a coequal...
It’s Hollywood Awards Season. But It’s Awfully Quiet…
The AFI Awards were postponed. The Critics’ Choice Awards — scheduled to be televised Sunday night in hopes of filling the void left by...
Fascinating: Have We Got So Much Data That We’re Entering Into A Post-Hypothesis Era...
The complexity that this wealth of data has revealed to us cannot be captured by theory as traditionally understood. “We have leapfrogged over our...
This Year’s Golden Globes Event Was an Embarrassing Mess
Given the award show’s banishment from longtime home NBC and its failure to secure a new broadcaster, this year’s Globes were tweeted out from...
