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Could Contemporary Dance In The US Be Ready To Start Unionizing?
About two dozen ballet companies are unionized, but only three contemporary dance companies are: Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, and Ballet Hispánico. There are certainly...
“A Partnership For The Ages”: In Praise Of MTT And The San Francisco Symphony
"The number of partnerships between an American orchestra and a music director that have been so productive for so long is vanishingly small. …...
Three Students, Using AI, Decipher Text From Ancient Papyrus Carbonized In Mount Vesuvius Eruption
The scroll is one of hundreds, all far too fragile to unroll, from Herculaneum that constitute the only intact library from the ancient world...
Soprano Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Star Of Hit 1981 Film “Diva”, Has Died At 75
"The film gave me an exposure that I could not have imagined, and I had to catch up with my own fame when the...
NPR “Founding Mother” Linda Wertheimer Retires
Along with Susan Stamberg, Nina Totenberg, and the late Cokie Roberts, Wertheimer, 80, was one of the women who joined the network in its...
Robert Spano Named Music Director Of Washington National Opera
Spano — currently music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Aspen Music Festival and School, principal conductor of the Rhode Island...
Due To Sudden Illness, Tyne Daly Withdraws From “Doubt” On Broadway
An announcement from the Roundabout Theatre Co. says, "Ms. Daly was unexpectedly hospitalized on Friday and unfortunately needs to withdraw from the production while...
Why Gertrude Stein Matters As A Writer, Not Just As Patroness And Lesbian Icon
"Tender Buttons is a collection which attempts to do with words the same thing that Stein’s friend Picasso did with shapes; to render their...
Whistler v. Ruskin, The Founding Litigation Of Modern Art
"To determine libel, the jury had to see his art. After the defense curated a viewing, the plaintiff, objecting to the dim courtroom venue,...
The Philadelphia Orchestra Tries Out A New Happy-Hour Concert Format
"Orchestra After 5" concerts begin with a cocktail hour in the Kimmel Center lobby, followed at 6:30 by a one-hour concert with an informal...
The Dance Scene In Los Angeles Is Finally Flourishing
There's always been an audience for dance there, but for many years fans were content with visits from touring companies. Now, Los Angeles Ballet...
Thieves Steal A Radio Station’s Entire 200-Foot Transmission Tower
Last week intruders stole every single piece of equipment, including the transmitter, from WJLX-AM in Jasper, Alabama, then somehow cut down, disassembled and took...
Edinburgh Fringe Sets Up A “Festival Village” To Help Ease The Desperate Shortage Of...
"A special rate of £269.50 a week is being offered for a private room within the shared student accommodation on the campus, which includes...
Museums Are Now Focus-Grouping Their Exhibitions
"Some of the world’s most renowned museums" — among them the British Museum, SF-MOMA, MFA Boston, and van Gogh Museum — "have been using...
Utah Legislation Would Make Teachers Criminally Liable If Banned Books Are Found In Their...
"HB417 would allow ... public school employees to be charged with a class A misdemeanor if they keep materials specifically deemed 'objectively sensitive' available...
With Carnival About To Start, Rio De Janeiro Declares A Public Health Emergency
The declaration was made because of a severe outbreak of dengue fever, a potentially lethal mosquito-borne disease which causes high fever, rashes, nausea, and...
Now That He’s Under Indictment, Italy’s Controversial Junior Culture Minister Resigns
"Vittorio Sgarbi has stepped down amid a rising tide of controversies. He is currently being investigated over allegations that he laundered stolen art. Last...
What The No-Longer-Mostly-Mozart-Festival-Orchestra Is Up To For Its First Season
"While the ensemble will remain the same in size and membership, it has a new name, a new music director and a program aimed...
Andrew Scott’s Secret For Onstage Sex Scenes That Aren’t Embarrassing
It's "one neat trick" that he learned while playing all the parts in an adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in London's West End last...
Seattle Dance Company Whim W’Him Buys And Builds Itself A New HQ
Given the costs of new flooring, lighting, and sound systems, director Olivier Wevers says, "'investing in a space you don’t own seems perilous.' When...
Anne Edwards, 96, Prolific Biographer And Novelist
"(She was) a prodigious and peripatetic author who published best-selling books about the actresses Vivien Leigh and Katharine Hepburn as well as 14 other...
A New Movie Version Of “The Master And Margarita” Is A Smash Hit In...
Says one source, “The propagandists are both envious and also hateful that a movie with an anti-censorship, anti-totalitarian, anti-war message is getting so much...
Visitor Falls To His Death Inside London’s Tate Modern Gallery
"(Ambulances) didn’t arrive quickly enough to revive the man, who was pronounced dead around 10:45 a.m. local time. Few other details about the fatal...
World Monuments Fund Hands Over Management Of Three Angkor Sites To Cambodian Government
"This new chapter for the Ta Som and Preah Khan Temples, alongside the Churning of the Ocean of Milk Gallery in Angkor Wat, coincides...
Stanford Undergrads With Mental Health Problems Are Being Prescribed A Dose of The Arts
"As a supplement to more traditional offerings such as one-on-one counseling, support groups or medication, students can now get a referral to attend a...