And Who Is John Neumeier’s Successor At Hamburg Ballet?
Demis Volpi, a 35-year-old Argentine-German choreographer who trained in Buenos Aires, Toronto, and Stuttgart, has been artistic director of the Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg...
Is “Quiet Quitting” A Problem In The Arts?
The global report determined that ‘only 21% of employees were engaged at work, and most didn’t find their work meaningful following the pandemic’. In...
Dancing Times To Sell Its Historic Trove Of Pictures
The collection consists of approximately 35,000 images, the majority dating from the early years of the 20th century through to the early years of the...
Why Critics And Audiences Often Disagree
So what’s the actual reason for the gap between audiences and critics? Simply put, it’s that audiences tend to be easier to please because...
Bard Announces New Maya Lin Performing Arts Building
The swirling effect is meant to gently integrate the building into the surrounding meadow while creating a structure that complements — but never competes...
Parent Complaints About “Pornographic Books” In Utah School Libraries Pour In After New Law
Utah parents have filed hundreds of requests to remove specific titles from K-12 libraries since a new law took effect in May banning “pornographic or...
Spotify Reports Big Subscriber Gains, Profits; Stock Price Falls
Spotify reported 456 million monthly active users, up 20% from a year earlier and above the company’s guidance. Paying subscribers, Spotify’s most lucrative type...
Alicia Alonso’s Successor At Cuba’s National Ballet Has A Very, Very Difficult Job
"Viengsay Valdés ... has the task of renewing the ballet's reputation when Cuba finds itself in a deep economic crisis. It will not only...
Osvaldo Golijov: After A Decade Fallow, He Returns With New Music
"It’s not like I didn’t attempt; I couldn’t finish a thought. I would begin something and then stop halfway because I’d think it was...
How Has TikTok Outrun YouTube And Facebook In Just A Few Short Years? It...
Or, to be more precise, it's very good at guessing what will interest you: "the most powerful tool TikTok has to grab users and...
Lessons From The James Corden Affair: Likeability Is Oh So Fragile
Likability has always been important in talk-show hosts, but balanced by other virtues like creativity, funniness, political or even journalistic insight, the ability to...
Berlin Philharmonic Conductor Kirill Petrenko Worried That The Pandemic Demonstrated That Orchestras Were Expendable
"We all were very destroyed because at a certain point we thought no one needs us anymore. Their life goes on. The concert halls...
The New Geffen Hall: More Intimate, Friendlier
The presentation demonstrated a greater use of theatrical lighting, improved amplified sound, and video technology in what had been a temple to un-enhanced instruments. David...
A Boy-Meets-Girl Play, Set At A Real-Life Pro-Nazi Summer Camp On Long Island
"For much of its running time, Camp Siegfried resembles a romantic drama, a coming-of-age story. That's a queasy proposition, considering the play's setting. In...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Workers’ Tense Return To Work After Strike
While some union members described cold and awkward interactions with management, others had more positive anecdotes in which middle managers were excited at their...
Boris Pasternak’s Grand-Niece Loses Her Copyright Suit Against A Historical Fiction Author
"Anna Pasternak claimed seven chapters in Lara Prescott's (novel), The Secrets We Kept, copied elements from her own book Lara, a 2016 biography of...
History’s First Named Author And What She Achieved
Enheduanna, the daughter of King Sargon, founder of the Akkadian Empire, played perhaps the leading role in consolidating the religion of conquered Sumer with...
Warner Bros. Discovery Is Spending $4 Billion To Shrink Itself
"The newly combined media company said that costs associated with cutting content" — such as the Batgirl film whose release was canceled entirely —...
Dept. Of Silver Linings: Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Identified After 2020 Beirut Explosion
"In one Lebanese mansion an anonymous painting — pierced by shards of glass from a blown-out window and impaled by wood from the window...
Mike Davis, L.A. Urbanist And Author Of “City Of Quartz”, Is Dead At 76
"(His) work exposed L.A.'s social fractures and disquieted its most ardent boosters, and (his) mark on the intellectual history of Southern California remains indelible....
Arkansas Museum Of Fine Arts Gets A Starchitect Makeover
"The countdown is on for the much-anticipated April 22, 2023, reopening of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock as it emerges...
One Day Before They Were Due, England’s State Arts Funder Postponed Its Plans For...
"Arts Council England has revealed it has hit the brakes on its imminent investment programme announcement. ... The 2023-26 programme has promised to be...
Feeling Trapped By The Nonbinary Gender Brand
We got stuck with this particular version of nonbinary identity—singularly focused on pronouns, clumsy corporate integration, and iconoclastic affect—because nonbinary identity has become a...
Meet Italy’s New Minister Of Culture: He Wants To Shake Things Up
Citing 19th Century patriotic poetry and Mussolini-era writers and philosophers, the freshly appointed culture minister of Italy’s new right-wing government has promised a new era...
How “Strictly Come Dancing” Is Changing How People See Dance
With this year being hailed as the most diverse series ever, Strictly is attempting to better reflect the diversity that exists across the British population...
