Leonard Slatkin Named Music Director Of Nashville Symphony
The 81-year-old conductor has served the orchestra as “Music Advisor” for the past year, following the departure of Giancarlo Guerrero. (He did the same...
A Choreographer Adapts Flamenco For Ice Dancing
Antonio Najarro, former director of the Ballet Nacional de España and choreographer of several medal-winning routines in ice dancing: “It seemed very difficult to...
Permission To Star(e)
Depending on where you stand, the human face has become either a digital playground or digital battleground. Your Instagram feed can now produce a...
Playwright Tracy Letts On Why He Wrote “Bug” (And Why Now’s A Good Time...
“I was studying this issue of conspiracy theories and what makes people susceptible to a conspiracy theory. There’s a real terror of (not conforming)...
Study: Using AI Doesn’t Reduce Work, It Intensifies It
In an eight-month study of how generative AI changed work habits at a U.S.-based technology company with about 200 employees, we found that employees...
France’s “Inalienable” Problem In Repatriating Museum Art
The principle is currently set out in two French legal codes, including the Heritage Code, which applies to public museum collections. Under the principle, nothing...
How Sundance’s Move To Boulder Could Reinvent The Festival
Sundance’s move to Boulder is coinciding with a fortuitous moment in the specialty film space, with an uptick in post-pandemic interest from younger moviegoers....
You’re About To Release A Novel, And Suddenly A News Event Comes Too Close...
That’s the dilemma that faced Simon & Schuster last fall, when right-wing media star Charlie Kirk was assassinated not long before the scheduled publication...
Paramount Sweetens Its Offer To Buy Warner
On Tuesday, the Skydance-owned company said it would pay Warner shareholders an added “ticking fee” if its deal doesn’t go through by the end...
Report: Trump “Obsessed” With Kennedy Center Makeover
Overhauling the Kennedy Center has become a fixation for Trump—and no detail is too small for the real-estate-developer-turned-president. - The Wall Street Journal
France’s Le Pen Planning Makeover Of French Arts Scene
Marine Le Pen’s party is concocting plans to replace a vital, vibrant arts scene with a retrograde movement that would glorify the country’s past....
Philippe Gaulier, Clown School Professor With A Galaxy Of Movie-Star Alumni, Is Dead At...
“The influential founder of France’s École Philippe Gaulier … taught the art of clowning for decades and his students included Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham...
A New Iron Curtain Between Russian And American Dance
A new iron curtain now separates American dance and Russian dance, bringing an abrupt end to a rich dialogue that spanned centuries. Swan Lake and The Nutcracker,...
LACMA’s New Galleries To Open April 19
That Sunday, a ribbon-cutting ceremony will kick off two weeks of priority member access to the galleries, with general admission beginning May 4. -...
How Washington National Opera Left The Kennedy Center
“It has nothing to do with the name change. It is strictly dollars and cents, and the Kennedy Center’s inability to understand the economics...
Ireland Makes Its Basic-Income-For-Artists Program Permanent
“The Basic Income for the Arts initiative will provide €325 ($386) a week to 2,000 eligible artists based in the Republic in three-year cycles....
Inside The Dismantling Of Voice Of America (As Recounted By One Of The Dismantled)
“An international media outlet employing hundreds of foreign journalists with the stated mission of promoting civil liberties abroad was bound to be incompatible with...
San Francisco Is Trying A Novel Approach To Securing Affordable Housing For Artists
“Trading financial gain for lasting impact, several older artists have donated the houses they bought decades ago to community land trusts, legal entities that...
BBC World Service Will Run Out Of Funding By April If Government Doesn’t Step...
Most of the World Service’s £400 million budget comes from the licence fee which funds the entire BBC, though the Foreign Office contributes a...
Oregon’s Portland Chamber Orchestra Abruptly Closes Down
The ensemble, founded in 1946, was believed to be the longest-running chamber orchestra in the US. While it has faced the same post-COVID financial...
Dallas Opera Chief Ian Derrer Appointed General Director Of Canadian Opera Company
Derrer — who came to The Dallas Opera in 2018 and then steered the company through COVID, raised $54.5 million and doubled the endowment,...
London’s “Brutalist Monstrosity” Southbank Centre Given Landmark Status
“The Southbank Centre in London, which includes the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Undercroft skatepark and was once voted ‘Britain's ugliest building’, has been...
How Has India Managed To Develop Over 100 Literary Festivals?
“The answer is that festivals in India are only partly about books. They are a ‘spectacle’ offering music, dance, handicraft sales and food. Even...
Can English National Opera’s New Leader Revive The Company’s Fortunes?
“I like this construction of London and Manchester,” he tells me, at the Coliseum. “And I like the spirit of pioneering, of becoming an opera...
American Tap Dance Meets Indian Kathak — And The Rhythms And Sparks Fly
“In Speak, American tap dancers collaborate with their counterparts in kathak, a classical Indian percussive dance form. While these genres have been crossed before,...
