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Broadway’s Signature Theatre Names A New Artistic Director

At Ars Nova, Emily Shooltz fostered the work of dozens of early-career playwrights the organization commissioned and developed for production, and over 100 others through the organization’s Play Group and roster of artist residency programs. - Playbill

UK Arts Organizations Are Rejecting Corporate Funding. A Risky Strategy?

Could these increasingly messy call-outs and protests, personal attacks on social media and public decouplings result in an already woefully underfunded arts sector destroying itself? - The Stage

San Francisco Symphony Facing Its Biggest Crisis Ever

The symphony believes one way to attract audiences is to showcase what few cities have, a one-of-a-kind performing arts scene, which also includes the ballet, the opera, the SF Jazz Center, and the Conservatory. - ABC7

How Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker” Has Remained An Important Book For 50 Years

"Half a century after its publication, (this) epic biography of urban planner and city-destroyer Robert Moses needs no revival. From the moment it was published, … (it) has never gone away. Its durability resembles that of Moses’s own prodigious creation, the redrawn arterial map of New York." - The New York Times Book Review

Ace Auctioneer: 14 Factors That Make Art Valuable

"I have put together a list of 14 criteria that convey financial value to a work of art. While the first point is emotional, all other points are actually rational." - Artnet

Universal Music: Betting The Future On A Superfans Strategy

Streaming equalizes the monetization across all fans, despite the fact that superfans listen to music a few hours every day, and yet casual fans only listen to a few hours every week." - Music Business Worldwide

Universal Music Chief: Streaming Will Power Music Business For Years To Come

“Fact number one”, according to Grainge, is that “streaming has resulted in a quantum leap forward in music access and monetization and streaming will continue to propel many years of industry growth.” - Music Business Worldwide

Black Artists And Artisans In South Carolina Return To A Crop That Once Made The State Rich: Indigo

As with the Lowcountry's other 18th-century cash crop, rice, slavers deliberately abducted Africans skilled in growing and working with indigo and transported them to Charleston to cultivate it on the area's plantations. Now some of their descendants are reviving the craft of growing and dyeing with the plant. - The New York Times

Classical Music Really Can Help With Depression, Finds Neuroimaging Study

"By using advanced brainwave measurements and neural imaging, the scientists identified that music engages a circuit connecting the auditory cortex and parts of the brain involved in reward and emotional processing, creating what the researchers call 'triple-time locking' of neural oscillations." - PsyPost

Comparing Tim Walz And J.D. Vance On Arts Issues

Vance has spent little effort in the Senate on the arts: his only notable action was introducing a Consequences for Climate Vandals Act, which would increase penalties for protesters damaging art at Smithsonian museums. Meanwhile, Walz is governor of Minnesota, number one in the US in arts funding per capita. - Hyperallergic

“The West Wing” At 25: The Politics Were Beside The Point, Says Aaron Sorkin

“I thought, ‘What if there were a show about our leaders where these people are as competent and committed as the doctors and nurses on a hospital show, the police officers on a cop show, the lawyers on a David Kelley show?’” - The New York Times

Six Academic Publishers Targeted In Antitrust Lawsuit

"A group of scientists and scholars … filed a class action lawsuit against Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Taylor and Francis, and Springer Nature last week. The complaint outlines 'a scheme' that they say resulted in 'perverse market failures that ... slow dramatically the pace of scientific progress.'" - Inside Higher Ed

LACMA Calls Off Plans For Satellite Museum In South L.A.

"The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has officially ended plans to establish a satellite campus at the South Los Angeles Wetlands Park in what was part of a 2017 project to 'de-center' the museum and expand reach to different parts of the city. The project suffered higher costs than anticipated." - ARTnews

Elias Khoury, Among The Greatest Of Arabic Novelists, Is Dead At 76

"As a novelist, (he) was often compared with the American writer James A. Michener, who … attempted to capture epic swaths of history in an intimate narrative. But if his vision was Michenerian, his prose was Faulknerian, driven by interweaving, stream-of-conscious narratives." - The New York Times

The Booking System For Comedy Clubs Is Broken

In comparison to the theater, live comedy has recovered from the pandemic in great commercial shape. But with success comes the danger of insularity, and while more new artists are entering the field than ever, the gulf in influence between celebrity comics and gifted young unknowns grows. - The New York Times

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