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V&A Museum Union Warns Job Cuts Would Cost “1,000 Years Of Expertise”
The museum, which plans to reopen only five days a week at first, is looking to save £10 million a year after its visitor...
Using Public Domain Songs As Fodder For Something New
With support from a wide cast of collaborators, Angry and Katherine McMahon are taking songs from the public domain — a class of creative...
Regulators Eye Warner/Discovery Merger With Skepticism
“That deal was sold to the Department of Justice and to the public on the basis of an efficiencies claim, which apparently has not...
The Year Of Singing Dangerously
The wildfire-like spread of the coronavirus over a couple of hours of choral singing inside a Washington church was enough to send shockwaves throughout...
Jeopardy Contestant’s Innocent Hand Gesture Sends Conspiracists Wild
Kelly Donohue’s three fingers, Snopes pointed out, symbolize the number “three.” After his first victory, he waved one finger. After his second victory, he...
UK Culture Minister: I Won’t Allow Our History To Be Cancelled
"Confident nations face up to their history. They don’t airbrush it. Instead, they protect their heritage and use it to educate the public about...
Diversity Means Teaching How To Think Rather Than What To Think
"Teaching kids what to think instead of how to think is dangerous. Advocacy-based teaching deprives them of the skills to reach their own...
A Design Challenge To Densify Los Angeles
"The challenge is a conversation starter and design exercise. It’s also a needed counter to commercial real estate developers, whose ideas of density tend...
Despite Best Efforts, We’re Still Terrible At Predicting The Future
"When you aggregate hundreds of predictions, the result is a special, concentrated kind of wrong. Everyone was trying their best, and everyone missed. And...
Can The Golden Ratio Predict Hit Musicals?
You can imagine my astonishment when, early one morning, my calculations revealed that within Les Miserables, the principal characters of Fantine, Eponine, Gavrosche and...
The Guardian Newspaper Was Founded The Year Napoleon Died. It’s Been A Singular Enterprise...
Its history is peppered with financial crises and near-death experiences. Perhaps it was placed on earth to make “righteousness readable” (in the centenary words...
At The Ballpark, In The Concert Hall, A Crowd Feeds Off Itself. But At...
“You don’t feel part of a crowd,” said Michael Howell, a season ticket holder for 40 years. “It’s more like a movie theatre where...
Why Workers At The Walters Museum Are Organizing A Union
The goal is to form a wall-to-wall union representing workers in nearly every aspect of museum operations. “We’ve got conservators, we’ve got people working...
It’s A Golden Age For Chinese Archaeology. Why Isn’t The West Paying Attention?
Chinese archaeology has a very different history from Egyptian archaeology. It has largely been done by local, Chinese archaeologists, for one thing; it was...
How The Golden Globes Brought On Its Own Demise
"The association has long been considered corrupt by critics and other members of the press, but that’s not what people are really mad about....
How The Met Opera’s Telemarketing Strategy Backfires On Itself
"Dialing for dollars may be a skill that some sellers of products and services profitably employ. But when it comes to deepening a level...
The Mystery Man Who Now Controls The World’s Largest Classical Music Management Company
After wresting control of IMG Artists in an internal power struggle, Russian-born tycoon Alexander Shustorovich has kept the agency alive through the pandemic to...
A Dancer Who Connects A History Of Dance Through Her Body
"To watch her dance, especially to jazz music, is to watch historical distance collapse. Steps and attitudes separated by eras flow through her improvising...
Time To Do Away With The Idea Of The Artist As Transgressor?
"Abusers are often shielded not only by this “myth of authenticity,” but by another myth, which pervades all the performing arts, and indeed all...
Longtime Curtis Institute Dean Robert Fitzpatrick, 75
Mr. Fitzpatrick served as dean at Curtis from 1986 to 2009 and was dean of students and executive assistant to the director from 1980...
At 50 Pianist Lars Vogt Was Diagnosed With Cancer. Here’s What He’s Learned
For sure, in classical music, we have internalized particularly strongly an ideal image of ourselves—which we think we need to communicate to others— as...
Paul Meecham Named Executive Director Of The Tucson Symphony
Paul Meecham comes to the job after leading the Utah Symphony & Opera for three years and a 10-year run as CEO of the...
Increasingly — Vaccination Has Its Privilege
Come summer, the nation may become increasingly bifurcated between those who are permitted to watch sports, take classes, get their hair cut and eat...
Research: Livestreaming Has Become A Vital Connection
“Our research has highlighted how important it is for audience members to be able to communicate with, and feel connected to, each other and...
What Our Comparisons Of Humans To Animals Say About Us
Calling a person an animal is usually a comment on their unrestrained appetites, especially for food (‘like a hungry animal’), for sex (‘they went...