Tag: 03.04.21
Marie Antoinette’s Private Theatre Has Been Restored
The queen had the little playhouse built as part of her pretend village at Le Petit Trianon; she and her friends attended plays and...
Murdoch Admits It Out Loud: Fox News Is The ‘Opposition’ To Democrats And Biden
Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert's elder son, told a group of investors that Biden's presidency would be good for Fox News (which, of...
What’s Wrong With Just Stopping During The Pandemic?
"We are living through a collective trauma, a once-in-a-lifetime historical moment, and taking "time off" is not a symptom of laziness. In fact, I...
Dr. Seuss’s Estate Made Its Decisions Based On Its Creator’s Legacy
"We make changes to the books our children read all the time. In 1812, the Brothers Grimm changed the evil mothers in traditional fairy...
A Year Of Turmoil At The American Shakespeare Center
Over the last year, American Shakespeare Center—a $4.3 million theatre company in Staunton, Va., known for producing the Bard’s work in repertory with a...
Sydney’s Museum Of Contemporary Art Is The Most Visited In The World
And Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, its director of 22 years, is leaving. "When Macgregor took over in 1999, the MCA was just eight years old...
Six Philadelphia Museums Combined Resources During COVID. It Transformed How They Do Their Work
"After much discussion, we developed structures to jointly fundraise and equitably disperse proceeds between us relative to budget size. More importantly, we learned about...
COVID Accelerated Trends By Ten Years. What Does That Mean For Classical Music?
According to NYU Stern School of Business professor and New York Times best-selling author Scott Galloway, the pandemic has accelerated the progression of trends...
Still Trying To Sort Out The Critic’s Role In A Very Changed Reality
"Critics no longer have the power to make or break an artist’s career. Rather, art critics depend more and more on maintaining friendly relationships...
Artists Hope Biden Immigration Policies Will Make It Easier To Collaborate Internationally
Now that the bans are reversed, immigration lawyers who work with artists, including Ashley Tucker, director of programs at the Artistic Freedom Initiative in...
The Mind As Computer? It Doesn’t Work That Way
These kinds of metaphors reduce us to achievement-driven and advantage-seeking entities, condemned constantly to self-optimise, as if our highest purpose is to be effective...
The Man Whose Job Is To Convince Us To Go Back To Movie Theatres
Adam Aron’s job is to persuade movie studios and moviegoers to re-embrace the theatrical experience, once things open up again and more of the...
Dr. Seuss Sales Soar After Publishers Withdraw Six Books With Racist Caricatures
In the wake of the decision by Dr. Seuss Enterprises to stop printing and selling If I Ran the Zoo, And to Think That...
Illinois’s Reopening Rules Make No Sense For Chicago’s Arts Venues
Under the current Phase 4 of Gov. Pritzker's five-phase plan, indoor gatherings are limited to a maximum capacity of 50% or 50 people per...
BAM Gave Its President Nearly $1 Million To Buy New Apartment (And Then She...
When the Brooklyn Academy of Music hired Katy Clark as its new CEO, the board wanted her to live in Brooklyn, where real estate...
New York City Is Reopening Movie Theaters
"It was a surprise to many when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced without fanfare last week that movie theaters in the five boroughs could open...
COVID Is Back At La Scala Ballet
The opera house's regular testing regimen revealed that 35 dancers and three administrative staffers at the ballet company had the novel coronavirus. Performances, rehearsals,...
Germany To Start Reopening Museums
"Chancellor Angela Merkel and German state leaders have agreed to start easing restrictions. If coronavirus cases are below 100 per 100,000 people over seven...
Streaming Music Is Big Business — So Why Do Classical Musicians Get So Little...
The payout to a musician from a Spotify subscriber is about $.003 per stream — and only one-fifteenth of that tiny figure for a...