Tag: 05.14.21
Should Arts Organizations Draw More From Their Endowments To Get Through The Pandemic? In...
Up there, as in the States, organizations themselves explain (again) that endowments are for providing income year after year and that drawing down capital...
What James Whiteside Has Been Doing With (Or To?) Dance Through The Lockdown
"As theaters went dark during the pandemic, the New York-based Whiteside" — best known as a prinmcipal at ABT — "began putting out a...
Uffizi Gallery Is Making Up Its Pandemic Cash Shortfall By Releasing NFTs Of Its...
"And it's starting off with a bang: an encrypted Michelangelo painting of the holy family, Doni Tondo (1505-06), just sold for €140,000 ($170,000). The...
Can The Golden Ratio Predict Hit Musicals?
You can imagine my astonishment when, early one morning, my calculations revealed that within Les Miserables, the principal characters of Fantine, Eponine, Gavrosche and...
Why Workers At The Walters Museum Are Organizing A Union
The goal is to form a wall-to-wall union representing workers in nearly every aspect of museum operations. “We’ve got conservators, we’ve got people working...
How The Golden Globes Brought On Its Own Demise
"The association has long been considered corrupt by critics and other members of the press, but that’s not what people are really mad about....
And The Dylan Thomas Prize Goes To
Raven Leilani for Luster, her debut novel (which was also awarded the admiration of former President Barack Obama, but that's a different kind of...
Pervis Staples, Who Moved His Family’s Staple Singers From Gospel To Soul, 85
Staples once compared the Staple Singers' "effect on ecstatic church audiences to 'a miracle or the hand of God.'" Pervis Staples "attended grammar school...
The Dictatorial Polish Conductor Who Changed The Sound Of American Orchestras
The tale of Artur Rodzinski is not a charming one, and yet, "arguably no man had more of a hand in turning American orchestras...
Artists Protest Plans To Raze Major Art Institutions In Delhi
A massive government redevelopment plan - funded and touted by Prime Minister Narenda Modi - will demand "the demolition and relocation of iconic Indian...
The History Of The Hollywood Foreign Press Association And Black Movie Critics
It's not great, as we all know. Here's the detailed story of Samantha Ofole-Prince, who was invited in 2013 to become a member, sponsored...
Masks And Other PPE Won’t Leave Movie Sets Anytime Soon
The one thing movie crew members - at least the vaccinated ones - can give up is face shields. One guild member says, "As...
Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad Is Different From Other Slavery Stories
Some of the show, though it does depict the violence of enslavement and other forms of anti-Black oppression, draws on an almost spiritual connection...
It’s Actually Good For Ellen – And Us – That Her Show Is Ending
Though she handled the end of the talk show far worse than anyone thought she could, even given the circumstances, she had to get...
How Spotify’s Podcast Dance Around Music Copyright Constraints
Basically, it owns both: Some shows use "a hybrid format, which Spotify calls 'shows with music' or 'music and talk, that allows creators to incorporate...
The Brontes Probably Died Young Because Of Their Water
It came from a graveyard. Or maybe some public privies. In any case, the water was very, very bad. - LitHub
Behind The Scenes At The Reopening Of The Hollywood Bowl
 "If reopening the Bowl is like riding a bike," the L.A. Phil president and CEO says, "the organization has swapped out a Tour de...
Longtime Curtis Institute Dean Robert Fitzpatrick, 75
Mr. Fitzpatrick served as dean at Curtis from 1986 to 2009 and was dean of students and executive assistant to the director from 1980...
At 50 Pianist Lars Vogt Was Diagnosed With Cancer. Here’s What He’s Learned
For sure, in classical music, we have internalized particularly strongly an ideal image of ourselves—which we think we need to communicate to others— as...
Paul Meecham Named Executive Director Of The Tucson Symphony
Paul Meecham comes to the job after leading the Utah Symphony & Opera for three years and a 10-year run as CEO of the...
Increasingly — Vaccination Has Its Privilege
Come summer, the nation may become increasingly bifurcated between those who are permitted to watch sports, take classes, get their hair cut and eat...
Nobel Committee Was Nervous About Giving Prize To Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fifty years on (as is the rule), documents on the deliberations for the 1970 prize have just been made public, and some committee members...