ArtsJournal1
Is The Five-Year Renovation Of The Pompdou Center In Trouble?
"A critical report from France’s court of auditors, who assess the use of public funds, revealed that the Centre Pompidou‘s economic model is unsustainable....
Arcimboldo’s “Four Seasons” Paintings, Newly Restored, Are Back On Display At The Louvre
The set of four paintings, each depicting seasonal plant matter assembled to resemble a human male figure, have undergone eight months of conservation work...
Boy Thrown From Tate Modern Balcony Five Years Ago Can Now Play By Himself
The victim, who was six when, on a visit with his parents from France to London in 2019, he fell 100 feet after being...
One Of CNN’s Top Executives Is Leaving To Head A State Public Broadcasting Network
Rachel Smolkin, CNN Digital's senior vice president of global news (and previously vice president and executive editor of CNN Politics, and before that managing...
Why Did Boston’s WGBH Lay off So Many Staffers When So Many Of Its...
The CEO blamed flat revenue and rising costs. Yet nine senior staffers earn more than $300,000 each, and the best-paid 16 earn a total...
U.S. Appeals Court Panel Orders Some Banned Books Be Returned To Texas Town’s Library
"The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel said in a 2-1 ruling that partially upheld a lower court's injunction that the...
California Legislature Restores Three-Quarters Of Arts Cuts In Gov. Newsom’s Proposed Budget
"Restored funds include $12.5 million to the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund and $5 million to the California Arts Council, which in turn provides...
Ravinia Festival Sues A Craft Brewery For Trademark Infringement
"The Ravinia Festival Association, whose grassy lawns come alive with a slew of summer concerts every year, filed an updated complaint in a trademark...
Seattle Rep Is Laying Off Most Of Its Artistic Staff
"Seattle Rep, the city’s preeminent regional theater company, is eliminating 17 staff positions over the course of the next several months, including the majority...
The Cascade Of Calamities At Georgia Ensemble Theatre
For over 20 years, co-founders Bob and Anita Farley successfully ran the company in an inner suburb of Atlanta, and they made plans to...
Scenes From The Fraud Trial Of Ozy Founder Carlos Watson
“Carlos was now in the mode of trying to manage the crisis,” co-founder Samir Rao (who has confessed and is cooperating with prosecutors) testified....
Can Saudi Arabia Really Remake Itself Into A Welcoming, Glamorous Travel Destination?
The Kingdom "is now marketing itself to two sets of travelers with increasingly divergent — and sometimes contradictory — expectations: luxury tourists at ease...
The Astoundingly Rapid Fall Of Conductor François-Xavier Roth
It took about two days for this lavishly-praised maestro to lose or cancel all his future engagements, and he'll likely be fired from his...
Here’s Benjamin Millepied’s First Big Event With His Paris Dance Project
"The Paris Dance Project, which Millepied formed last year with Solenne du Haÿs Mascré, is not a dance company, but an organization that creates...
Folks In Portland, Maine Can’t Agree On Whether Or How To Expand The Museum...
The museum's director, backed by the city council, thinks it'll take the amenities in a new $100 million building to attract visitors back to...
Remember When The Berkshire Museum Sold Its Norman Rockwells And Other Art? Here’s What...
The $53 million in proceeds from the 2018 sale is funding a major renovation and redesign of the building as the museum, located in...
SAG-AFTRA Files Unfair Labor Practices Complaint After Layoffs At Chicago Public Radio
"The charges at the National Labor Relations Board allege the nonprofit parent company of WBEZ and the Chicago-Sun-Times 'failed and refused to provide information...
Mitsuko Uchida Gets Testy With The New York Times (And Arguably Disses Her Colleagues)
Q: "Tell me what excites you about the Ojai Festival." A: "You think I go to Ojai because I get excited? No. I go...
Royal Swedish Opera Fined $300,000 For Workplace Death Of Stage Technician
The technician died in September of last year after falling more than 40 feet from a balcony while carrying out work. Authorities investigated the...
Baillie Gifford Just Gives Up On Sponsoring Literary Festivals
The Hay and Edinburgh festivals ended their relationships with Baillie Gifford because participating writers threatened to withdraw unless the firm divested from fossil fuels...
Zines: A Brief History
"The zine — that unruly riff on the glossy magazine, often handmade, always self-published — has long been associated with revolution. DIY dabblers and...
Paris Opera Ballet Is Creating A Junior Company
"Led by director of dance José Martinez, the inaugural ... cohort will include 18 dancers — 9 males and 9 females — ages 17...
This Brave Choreographer Has Created The Fourth Movement Of “Jewels” That Balanchine Never Got...
Mr. B's initial plan for Jewels included, along with the now-standard "Emeralds," "Rubies," and "Diamonds," a section titled "Sapphires." Balanchine said he never finished...
Here Comes AI That Will Let Viewers Create Their Own Episodes Of TV Shows...
"Fable Studio … (has) announced Showrunner, a platform the company says can write, voice and animate episodes of shows it carries. Under the initial...
How Spotify Got Itself Into Several Great Big Messes At Once
"(CEO Daniel) Ek probably isn’t too bothered by the lawsuits, or the burdens of running a (post-massive-layoffs) operation, or outrage ... over a more...