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Dancer Who Sued Berlin State Ballet For Racial Discrimination Gets Settlement, New Contract
"Chloé Lopes Gomes filed a lawsuit in 2020 against the expiration of her temporary contract. She discriminated against because of the color of...
Choreographer Cathy Marston, Making New Story Ballets Cool Again
The 46-year-old Briton, who has continued to work remotely even as her big U.S. premieres planned for last year (Of Mice and Men at...
Size Matters: Of Novels And Novellas And Their Fluctuating Lengths
Novels started out long in the 18th and 19th centuries, got shorter in the early 20th century, and really started bulking up (especially genre...
Tempest Storm, Last Of The Great Old-Time Striptease Artists, Dead At 93
"Routinely named in the same ardent breath as the great 20th-century ecdysiasts Lili St. Cyr, Blaze Starr and Gypsy Rose Lee, Ms. Storm was...
What Ever Happened To All Those Quibi Shows? They’re Now ‘Roku Originals’
"The streaming device maker will rebrand the Quibi library, which it bought in January, as Roku Originals in the run-up to debuting them on...
The New Whitest-Ever White Paint Could Potentially Replace Air Conditioning
The paint, developed at Purdue University's mechanical engineering department, reflects 98.1 percent of the sun's rays, while the strongest heat-resistant white paints currently on...
Bad Feelings At Second City In Chicago: Old Food Service Staff Is Fired And...
The 90-odd people who worked, some for decades, as waiters, bartenders, dishwashers and the like were told last fall that their furloughs were officially...
Researchers Figure Out Why Some Picassos Have Deteriorated More Quickly Than Others
"The study centred on four paintings inspired by the Ballets Russes, the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev's itinerant dance troupe, which Picasso produced in no...
Classical Music Podcasts Are Coming Into Their Own
"Classical music has been surprisingly slow to embrace podcasting, a medium ideally suited to illuminate its sounds and stories. But something changed in the...
Canada’s Federal Budget Has More Than $800 Million In New Cultural Funding
"The budget earmarks $300-million over two years to Canadian Heritage to create a recovery fund to combat that drop in employment and support the...
Detroit Symphony’s Long-Serving CEO, Anne Parsons, To Retire Next Year
"Parsons faced a financially embattled DSO when she took the reins in 2004, followed by grueling labor strife several years later. She ultimately helped...
Charlotte Plans To Overhaul Arts Funding, With 50% More Money — But Some Artists...
"Last week, City Manager Marcus Jones recommended that the city take over arts funding from the Arts & Science Council, which has managed the...
Inside James Turrell’s Masterwork-In-Progress In Arizona’s Painted Desert
For 45 years, the light sculptor has been designing and building a complex inside Roden Crater, a volcanic cinder cone about 50 miles northeast...
At Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater, New Leader Means To Really Live Up To Its...
Says Ken-Matt Martin, who was named artistic director last month after having been Robert Falls's number-two at the Goodman, "If I figured out how...
A Critic Considers Where Music And Writing About It Meet, And Where They Miss
Thomas Larson, former music critic for the Santa Fe New Mexican (1980-82), now a staff writer at the San Diego Reader: "Figuring out that...
Ballet In America Is Having A COVID-Induced Baby Boom
"A career in ballet lasts only as long as a dancer's body does. If they're lucky, dancers can perform into their 30s — or...
The Tech That Lets Opera Singers Rehearse With Accompanists Remotely
Says San Francisco Opera general director Matthew Shilvock of the platform, called Aloha, "It allows a singer and a pianist to essentially be in...
Harriet Tubman’s Lost Family Home Discovered In Maryland
The site, on land recently added to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore, includes ten acres that Tubman's father, Ben Ross,...
Chicago Says It Will Spend $60 Million On Arts Throughout City
The initiative, called Arts 77 (referring to Chicago's 77 neighborhoods), takes in multiple programs spread over several departments of the municipal government. Along with...
Richard Wright, Who’s Been Dead For 60 Years, Has A New Novel Coming Out
"In July 1941, Richard Wright, then America's leading Black author, began writing the novel he felt was his masterpiece. Written 'at white heat,' …...
Chiefs Of ‘The Gold Standard Of Art Film Studios’ Retire After 21 Years
Steve Gilula and Nancy Utley have been at the helm of Searchlight Pictures since the turn of the millennium, and one could argue that...
With The Castros Gone, Will The Arts In Cuba Be Any Freer?
Since Raúl Castro's government had recently had another period of censoring art and arresting artists, there's some hope — off the island, at least...
Entire Board Of New Zealand’s National Organization For Museums Resigns
"The entire board of Museums Aotearoa has abruptly quit after concerns about its governance and management. The organisation’s remaining executive director, Phillipa Tocker, is...
The Walkie-Talkie, Big Underpants, And The Bathtub: What Modernist Architecture’s Abhorrence of Imitation Has...
For centuries, great architecture involved innovation and invention within the context of established, tried-and-true styles, materials and techniques — and the result was buildings...
The Pursuit of Equity
The intent is to overcome the very real danger that the nonprofit arts industry’s “equity statements” could easily become like the “thoughts and prayers”...
