How Things Fell Apart At Santa Fe Pro Musica
It all seemed promising two years ago, when pianist Anne-Marie McDermott was hired as artistic director to replace the orchestra/concert presenter's retiring co-founders. Now...
Florida’s New Budget Doubles Arts Funding
"The budget signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis allocates slightly more than $59 million for three major grant categories, up from the $26.7 million last...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art’s Next Director: Sasha Suda Of The National Gallery Of Canada
At 41, Alexandra Suda will be the youngest director in the PMA's history, and she comes to Philadelphia after three years at the helm...
France Suspends Indicted Former Louvre Director From His New Post
The Ministry of Culture has put Jean-Luc Martinez, who left Paris's flagship museum at the end of last year and was then appointed a...
Martha Myers, A Doyenne Of America’s Dance Educators, Dead At 97
"(She) influenced generations of dancers both as the founder of the noted dance department at Connecticut College and as the longtime dean of the...
Can Murano’s Struggling Glass Factories Be Saved By Design?
Reversing Murano’s fate would be a monumental task, especially at this pivotal moment when soaring gas prices, caused by the war in Ukraine, have...
A New Way To Pick New Books?
How to reproduce online the serendipity of walking into a bookstore and discovering new books and authors. A new app, Tertulia, launched this week, is...
Is There A Job Vacancy Crisis In The Arts?
The job vacancy rate has been particularly high since April of 2021, when the sector experienced a record monthly vacancy rate of 8.8%. That...
The Evolving Meaning Of Meta
To be meta was to flex your self-awareness for social currency, to demonstrate proficiency in the language of smirky dissociative irony that was the...
Still Grappling With The Point Of Book Reviews
If, in fact, book reviews are on the whole too positive, as some suggest, does this mean that the purpose of book reviewing is...
Australia’s National Gallery Faces $67 Million Hole
The National Gallery of Australia needs to urgently find more than $67 million to protect its $6.1 billion art collection with a backlog of...
This 23-Year-Old Might Just Become The World’s Greatest French Horn Player
Nathaniel Silberschlag, who became the Cleveland Orchestra's principal hornist at age 21, astounds even jaded professional orchestra musicians. His teacher, Met Opera principal hornist...
Ira Glass Worries That We’re Losing The War Against Disinformation
The US – like many other Western nations – has gone from a place “where it seemed like some sort of consensus was possible”, to a new...
San Diego’s New Ballet Company Mounts Its First Production
Golden State Ballet first took the stage late last year, reviving the now-defunct California Ballet's staging of Nutcracker, but this week the company presents...
Zoned For Dance: NYC Mayor Says Dancing Will Help City’s Recovery
Although the city had repealed its Cabaret Law, a 1926 regulation that made it illegal to host dancing, singing or musical entertainment without a license,...
The Strange Loops Of “A Strange Loop”: The Meta-Musical’s 20-Year Journey To Broadway And...
"Through its lengthy development process, A Strange Loop underwent countless loop-the-loops of revisions, workshops, and more revisions. Here, its key players detail the dizzying...
How Our Bodies Protect Our Brains
No longer do scientists consider the brain to be a special, sealed-off zone. “This whole idea of immune privilege is quite outdated now. -...
Agatha Christie, Historian Of Forensic Science
"Her desire for procedural accuracy and the developments in criminology and medicolegal sciences her writing tracks show clearly the progression of forensics into the...
Lviv Is An Architecturally Gracious European City. How Do You Add A Million Refugees
Amid war with Russia, the city’s challenge is to integrate tens of thousands of residents displaced from fighting in eastern Ukraine without sacrificing Lviv’s...
Can High Design Reverse The Decline Of Murano Glass?
The skilled artisans on the Venetian island have been struggling for many years against competition from mass-produced glass — and that was before the...
Why Chekhov Adaptations Seem To Be All Over The Place These Days
"With his compassionate humor, Chekhov neither indicts his characters nor lets them off the hook for their myopic concerns. His plays are a tonic...
AI May Finally Be Reaching The Point Where It Can Replace Artists And Writers
"Over the past few months, new advancements in A.I." — in particular, the platforms Sudowrite (text) and Dall-E (images) — "have made it clear...
Hollywood Is Observing Sanctions Against Russia. Russian Cinemas Are Showing Hollywood Hits Anyway.
"More than three months into the (Ukraine) war, reports are surfacing about illicit screenings of Hollywood movies at Russian cinemas, with initial reports naming...
Husband Of Prominent Ballet Arizona Dancer Indicted For Shooting Her
Colleen Hoopes was killed by two bullets from a gun fired by her husband, Christopher Hoopes, in their bedroom. He told police that he...
The Latest Selfie-Taking-Tourist-Damages-Art Mishap Has Gone Down (As It Were) In Madrid
"Alberto Sánchez's ballet set for La romería de los cornudos (The Pilgrimage of Cuckolds), 1933, was reportedly torn in one part by the tourist...
