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John Eliot Gardiner, Fired By The Ensembles He Founded, Creates New Ones
In July, the board of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras broke ties with the conductor, 11 months after he punched a singer in the...
“Gentle Giant Of Chamber Music In America,” Anthony Checchia, Has Died At 94
He was the longtime general manager of the Marlboro Music Festival, Vermont's great summer school for music students, and founding artistic director of the...
A Docu-Play About Hamas’s October 7 Terror Attack
October 7, a verbatim play along the lines of The Laramie Project and Anna Deavere Smith's works, is drawn from interviews with more than...
How Ancient Greek Texts In Arabic Translation Started A Medieval Scientific Revolution
"It is well-known that classic works of Greek science and philosophy were translated into Arabic before they were translated into other European languages —...
Hong Kong’s Highly-Touted, Popular Arts District Is Selling Off Land To Remain Solvent
The West Kowloon Cultural District received a set amount of funding to open, expecting to sustain itself long-term by developing commercial and residential real...
This Highly-Praised New Ballet Was Cancelled After Accusations Of Cultural Appropriation. Were Those Claims...
England's Northern Ballet premiered Geisha just before the 2020 COVID lockdown. The troupe has several Japanese dancers who were excited about it, the creative...
Philly Fringe Begins 2024 Festival By Announcing Its New Director
Nell Bang-Jensen, artistic director of Theatre Horizon in (the Philadelphia suburb of) Norristown, will be (FringeArts') … new CEO, taking over from cofounder Nick...
María Benítez, 82, Was A Pioneer In Establishing Flamenco In The U.S.
Born in Minnesota, raised in New Mexico and trained in Madrid, she established María Benítez Teatro Flamenco in New York and Santa Fe in...
UK Won’t Charge Harvey Weinstein With Sex Crimes, So New York Will Charge Him...
"Spared from prosecution in Britain on Thursday, Harvey Weinstein now faces the prospect of a new indictment in New York, where prosecutors retrying the...
One Of Rome’s Ancient Monuments Has Been Struck And Damaged By Lightning
"The Arch of Constantine, a giant ancient Roman arch next to the Colosseum, was damaged (by a lightning strike) after a violent storm hit...
Las Vegas Will Be Getting A Proper Art Museum — With Help From LACMA
Las Vegas is the largest city in the US without a major art museum; casino magnate Elaine Wynn and LACMA director Michael Govan intend...
At Last Some Good Financial News For NPR
"NPR expects to close its current fiscal year with revenues about 2% over budget due in part to growth in development. … (The network's)...
Seattle Symphony Names A Music Director: Xian Zhang Of New Jersey Symphony
"Xian Zhang was hired Thursday as music director of the Seattle Symphony, becoming the first woman conductor to head a major West Coast orchestra...
US Playwright Ken Ludwig Gives £1 Million To Preserve Shakespeare Family Home
The author of the farce Lend Me a Tenor and the book for the Gershwin musical Crazy for You donated in order to fund...
Venezuelan TV News Agency Is Using AI-Created Avatars
Amid a harsh crackdown by the Maduro regime following an election he claims to have won but apparently lost badly, a news service called...
FBI Arrests Musician For Alleged $10 Million Scam With AI-Created Songs
"An indictment in Manhattan federal court said (Michael) Smith created thousands of accounts on streaming platforms so that he could stream (tens of thousands...
Fyre Festival II Is Coming, I Promise! Says The Producer Of The Original Fiasco
"Billy McFarland is a little over a year into planning Fyre Festival II, and he still doesn’t know where it’s going to be. Or...
The “Black List” Of Best Unproduced Screenplays Is Being Extended To Books
"The Black List … has morphed over two decades into a multifunctional web platform focused on screenplay development and discovery. … Now, with relations...
The Incredible Shrinking Writers’ Rooms Of Hollywood
"(Back) when networks would commission a season of 22 episodes of a sitcom or drama, these rooms would often boast a dozen or more...
Ron DeSantis’s Elimination Of Arts Funding Is Wrecking Arts Education In Florida
"Several of the more than 600 organizations that lost state funding (said) that their educational programming is the first thing they will have to...
Newport Art Museum Has Laid Off All Of Its Curators
With the layoff of all three curatorial staffers plus one patron-facing worker and the resignation of three more employees (one a senior manager), NAM...
Cooper Union Welcomes Back Its Seniors With A Surprise: Free Tuition!
"The incoming class of seniors at New York’s Cooper Union learned at today’s convocation ceremony that they would pay no tuition for their final...
British Prosecutors Drop Indecent Assault Case Against Harvey Weinstein
"The Crown Prosecution Service said on Thursday that it decided to discontinue proceedings against Weinstein because there is 'no longer a realistic prospect of...
Bellevue Arts Museum In Washington State Gives Up And Shuts Down
"Nearly seven months after launching an emergency fundraising campaign to stave off a 'dire' financial crisis, the Bellevue Arts Museum is closing its doors...
People Are Finally Returning To U.S. Movie Theaters. But Will They Keep Coming?
For winter and spring 2024, box office was down 30% from the previous year. So the fact that this summer was down only 10%...