Art and Culture

“The plaintiffs — a group of professors, department heads and administrators — say the school did not give them 60 days’ written notice of its plans for mass layoffs, as required under federal law. … The lawsuit could be…
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After 22 years as the music director at the Royal Opera House in London, Antonio Pappano has a tried-and-true recipe for creating traction around the art form.“The choices you make and the energy which you share with audiences will keep…
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Months after Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees agreed to end a protracted legal fight, the two sides are set to approve an agreement that could result in the company…
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“The former staffers said they offered their resignation due to what they described as a ‘heartbreaking’ work culture plagued by increasingly low morale over the past year, but they said their four-week notice was…
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Louisville Public Media is laying off eight of its employees.The lost jobs are the result of a move to…
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Ruth Reinhardt 36-year-old German conductor Ruth Reinhardt has been appointed Music Director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic. She will be the sixth Music Director in RI Phil’s 80-year history.…
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For nonprofit arts organizations, the choice to use the art as a final product is the easiest way to swim downstream. Unfortunately, there are times when swimming with the current can be fatal. Like now. (Photo by Sergey Pesterev on…
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Senior figures in the arts have warned that Edinburgh faces a cultural crisis after it emerged that one of the city’s most famous venues, Summerhall, has been put up for sale.Summerhall, housed in the city’s former veterinary school, has…
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For every rave like Entertainment Weekly‘s (“jaw-droppingly gorgeous from start to finish”), there’s a critique like this from The New York Times (“too often a misguided attempt to resuscitate the show…
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A librarian in Louisiana – one of the first in the US to file a lawsuit for defamation against her detractors – is speaking out about the fight she’s been part of as censorship and books bans escalate around the country.Amanda Jones…
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