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New York Philharmonic Players Get 30% Raise In New Contract
"The deal with Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians calls for raises of about 15% in 2024-25, and 7.5% each in 2025-26...
Hans Haacke, The First Artist To Confront American Museums With Politics
Before Haacke, museums were considered … 'genteel and politically marginal.' Robber barons might have donated to them to enhance their social clout, but such...
It’s A Brave Actor Who’ll Play Abraham Lincoln At Ford’s Theatre
Yet that's exactly what Scott Bakula will be doing when he assumes the title role in Herbert Mitgang’s 1979 solo play Mister Lincoln at...
How New York’s Jam-Packed Fall For Dance Festival Gets Programmed
Stanford Makishi, vice president and artistic director of dance at New York City Center: "We literally have companies written on Post-it notes on a...
How Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker” Has Remained An Important Book For 50 Years
"Half a century after its publication, (this) epic biography of urban planner and city-destroyer Robert Moses needs no revival. From the moment it was...
Black Artists And Artisans In South Carolina Return To A Crop That Once Made...
As with the Lowcountry's other 18th-century cash crop, rice, slavers deliberately abducted Africans skilled in growing and working with indigo and transported them to...
Classical Music Really Can Help With Depression, Finds Neuroimaging Study
"By using advanced brainwave measurements and neural imaging, the scientists identified that music engages a circuit connecting the auditory cortex and parts of the...
Comparing Tim Walz And J.D. Vance On Arts Issues
Vance has spent little effort in the Senate on the arts: his only notable action was introducing a Consequences for Climate Vandals Act, which...
“The West Wing” At 25: The Politics Were Beside The Point, Says Aaron Sorkin
“I thought, ‘What if there were a show about our leaders where these people are as competent and committed as the doctors and nurses...
Six Academic Publishers Targeted In Antitrust Lawsuit
"A group of scientists and scholars … filed a class action lawsuit against Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Taylor and...
LACMA Calls Off Plans For Satellite Museum In South L.A.
"The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has officially ended plans to establish a satellite campus at the South Los Angeles Wetlands Park in...
Elias Khoury, Among The Greatest Of Arabic Novelists, Is Dead At 76
"As a novelist, (he) was often compared with the American writer James A. Michener, who … attempted to capture epic swaths of history in...
The Great Bells Of Notre Dame Cathedral Return To Paris
"A convoy of trucks bearing eight restored bells — the heaviest of which weighs more than 4 tons — pulled into the huge worksite...
Richard Pettibone, Progenitor Of “Appropriation Art,” Has Died At 86
"Nearly 60 years since his gallery debut, Pettibone remains best known for his works copying modern art superstars like Andy Warhol and Frank Stella....
Choreographer Silas Farley Takes On The Largest Project Of His Career
Four Loves, a 30-minute ballet with a cast of more than 20, is inspired by C.S. Lewis's book The Four Loves, which examines storge...
“Arts For Us All”: A New Plan From Britain’s Oldest Socialist Organization
The report from the Fabian Society, founded in 1884 and one of the progenitors of today's Labour Party, calls for removing the "class ceiling"...
Two Suspects Charged With Theft Of Banksy From London Gallery
"London's Metropolitan Police said Friday that Larry Fraser, 47, and James Love, 53, are alleged to have taken (a limited-edition print of) Girl with...
Hundreds Of Violent Threats: Why Toronto Int’l Film Festival Canceled Documentary “Russians At War”
"In emails and phone calls, TIFF staff received hundreds of instances of verbal abuse," said festival CEO Cameron Bailey. "Our staff also received threats...
Hollywood Mega-Agency UTA Closes Its Visual Art Division
United Talent Agency was, starting in 2015, the first major entertainment agency to expand into representing visual artists. The decision to shutter UTA Fine...
New Jersey Performing Arts Center Is Building A Major Housing And Retail Complex
The $336 million project, called ArtSide, is one of the largest real estate projects in Newark in decades. It will include roughly 350 apartments,...
British Theatre Cancels Entire Run Of “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Over “Free Palestine” And Trans...
The production at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, which was to run from last week into early October, was a modern retelling of...
The World’s Oldest Sunday Newspaper Is For Sale
The Observer, first published in 1791, has been owned by the parent company of The Guardian since 1993, and the papers' content is integrated...
New York Philharmonic Begins Its Season In A Tricky Position
The administration is negotiating a new contract with the musicians, who haven't had a raise since 2019. The messy sexual misconduct case involving two...
R. Peter Munves, Master Mass Marketer Of Classcial Recordings, Is Dead At 97
At Columbia Records and RCA, Munves was responsible for such innovative hits as "Switched-On Bach" as well as composers' "Greatest Hits" compendia and, later,...
Never Mind, Kathy Bates Is Not Retiring After “Matlock” After All
"Bates said the retirement buzz was 'kind of a misunderstanding' after she referred to Matlock as her 'last dance' in an interview with The...