Statistically, the 2021 class is comprised of 46 percent women, 39 percent underrepresented ethnic/racial communities, and 53 international members from 49 countries outside of the United States. – IndieWire
Gap In Museum Pay Is Widening
Museum directors brought home an average annual salary of $320,600, compared to $317,500 in 2019. Meanwhile,visitor services associates, who were most impacted by job cuts, earned less in 2020: an average of $31,600 (full-time) compared to $32,600 in 2019. – Hyperallergic
San Diego Opera In Its Best Financial Shape Ever
The company’s endowment, which was $4.8 million when Executive Director David Bennett arrived in 2015, has nearly doubled to $8.8 million. – San Diego Union-Tribune
So Yale Theatre School Tuition Will Be Free. Is This A Good Thing?
The fascinating idea is that the free tuition even can expand exponentially to help yet more artists. It’s an interesting argument, rarely applied to philanthropy in education. – Chicago Tribune
Bollywood Isn’t Nimble Enough To Have Made COVID Films Already, But This Indian Film Industry Is
The Malayalam-language cinema, based in India’s best-educated state, Kerala, has managed to produce compelling dramas dealing with the pandemic — from a two-hander shot entirely inside a car to a loose adaptation of Macbeth set on a rubber plantation — despite lockdowns and cash crunches. – The Guardian
It’s The Chinese Communist Party’s 100th Birthday, And Socialist Realism Is Back
Not only are they reviving classics of the Cultural Revolution like The Red Detachment of Women, new works celebrating the Party’s achievements are being written for and performed by opera houses, ballet troupes, orchestras, choirs, and even Chinese hip-hop artists. – The New York Times
Composer Louis Andriessen Dead At 82
He combined Philip Glass-style minimalism with influences ranging from jazz to Baroque music to Stravinsky to hard rock, not to mention leftist politics. He also taught two generations of notable composers, including Missy Mazzoli, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, and David Lang. – NPR
Stolen Picasso, Mondrian Found In Ravine In Greece
In custody is not a gang of thieves who planned a Hollywood-style heist, but a 49-year-old construction worker, with the Twitter name ArtFreak, who was arrested on Monday. – The New York Times
Let’s Talk About Green Things In Movies (Fascinating)
What makes a good greensperson? The best of them know how and where to get things, no matter how rare or obscure or out of season. – The New York Times
Arts Business Ownership – Statistics on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
In the U.S. there are limited public data on the demographics of leadership and staff (as opposed to artists and participants) at arts organizations. Absent these statistics, one of our analysts turned to the Annual Business Survey (ABS), a collaboration between the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Science Foundation. – Sunil Iyengar
An NFT Of The Internet’s Source Code Sells For $5.4 Million
With bidding starting at $1,000, a total of 51 collectors competed for the NFT during a sale titled “This Changed Everything.” The winning bid was place around 10 minutes before the end of the auction. – ARTnews
The Maestro Who’s Bringing Period Instruments To Ravel, Mahler, And Stravinsky
François-Xavier Roth and his orchestra, Les Siècles, like to play concerts with Rameau in the first half and Ravel in the second, or Debussy with Boulez, all on instruments from the composer’s era (and, where possible, nation). Here’s a Q&A where he talks about how that works and why such a band was his dream. – The New York Times
Memory Champ: Trick Your Brain To Remember
This technique of linking images with places is called the memory palace, and it’s particularly useful for remembering the order of certain elements. – Wired
This Is The Reason Bill Cosby Got To Walk Out Of Prison
Why did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturn the 83-year-old star’s 2018 sexual assault conviction? Because of the Fifth Amendment and a bait-and-switch. Here’s a legal explainer. – The New York Times
Here’s What Will Be At The First Post-COVID Edinburgh Fringe
It’s 170 shows rather than the 3,000+ that were standard pre-pandemic, there’s still a big online component, many of the shows sill be outdoors, and the crowds will be a lot smaller, but the live, in-person Fringe is back. – BBC