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"When suddenly we have to care about climate, health, and jobs and housing and care and communities, is there a framework around that can help us with all of that? Yes there is, and it is re…
"The deal [with the musicians' union] includes immediate pay cuts until early September, a wage freeze and a delayed pay increase and extends the current contract for a year, to 2024, accord…
The announcement of this year's awards had been scheduled for April 20, but, as administrator Dana Canedy said in a statement, "The Pulitzer board includes many high-level journalists who ar…
"In a bold attempt to salvage its shows, the festival … has decided to develop, rehearse, and record all seven of its planned productions and release them in audio form on Audible … [wit…
"London's theatres first shuttered their doors on March 16 in the wake of the escalating coronavirus pandemic. The mass closures, in an effort to curb the spread of the virus, mirrored those…
"The Philharmonic dismissed the players " its principal oboist, Liang Wang, and associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey " in September 2018. Both men denied wrongdoing, and the players' …
"A onetime Army mechanic and mail carrier who wrote songs rooted in the experiences of lower-middle-class life, Mr. Prine rose to prominence almost by accident. He was at a Chicago folk club…
"Nichols and May: Take Two," an American Masters documentary about Elaine May and Mike Nichols originally telecast on PBS in 1996:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-re…
"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something yo…
Artistic or creative pursuits, endeavors that are typically pursued for the intrinsic joy of sharing one's gifts, are also frequently commoditized and placed on the market. Are they part of …
"The huge growth of the art market at its top end is surely, as Michael Shnayerson suggests, a function of the spiralling number of billionaires and increasing disparities of wealth. He also…
The two leading platforms are Spotify with 35 percent and Apple Music, with 19 percent. Amazon Music is third with 15 percent of market share. Paid subscriptions represented 80 percent of to…
Musicians have lost the battle to monetize recordings. With the internet awash in cheap streaming and free videos, our income now comes from live performance alone. Even if livestreams end u…
Journalist Lorraine Boissoneault looks into the effort " using classroom lessons, software, and the memory of one of five native speakers left " to revive and teach the Menominee language of…
"[It's] the greatest art scam in Canadian history," says art dealer Don Robinson, who suffered a stroke because of the stress he endured in his campaign against a market awash with forgeries…
Recent thefts of van Gogh and van Dyck paintings indicate that the answer is no. "Alarm systems and uniformed guards are still in place, of course, and the sale of museum-famous stolen art h…
Representatives of those artists or their estates sued Universal in June, arguing that the company had been negligent in protecting their tapes and that the company had a duty to share with …
Says the Head of Performance Health at Queensland Ballet in Brisbane, "They've been using everything from bench tops, to tables to ironing boards as well as ballet barres, and practicing on …
Jennifer Koh got to work on Alone Together, an online performance series for which she hyper-compressed her usual process of discovering composers by asking 21 of them with some level of fin…
As it has always been, history will be written by the "victors" of the COVID-19 crisis. Every nation, and increasingly every individual, is experiencing the societal strain of this disease i…
Ben : "In many of these productions, time seemed to be torn off its hinges, and the solid floor of what we think of as 'normal life' to have cracked open. Who knew how apt a preface such wor…
COVID is a social disease, a pathological experiment on the nature of our social relations. It is experienced in our social life in four major ways, and our responses bear upon the nature of…
Karen Russell: "Today, we are witnessing the shotgun weddings of words into some strange unions, neologisms sped into existence by this virus ('quarantunes,' 'quarantini'), epidemiological v…
While overall crime in the city fell in March compared with a year earlier, commercial and residential burglaries rose 26% to 942, according to a New York City Police report. The sometimes e…
"Matthew Belloni resigned as editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter due to intense conflicts with Modi Wiczyk and Asif Satchu, the co-CEOs of the trade's owners, Valence Media, over th…
