Said Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger, "I don't see how it's practical for us to continue to shoot there [if the law takes effect] … I think many people who work for us will not want to work t…
"On Wednesday, the BMA revealed plans to send an updated version of [a] 1937 questionnaire to about 300 local schools, nonprofits, and other organizations. The results will inform future exh…
"Burnout now appears in the [WHO handbook] ICD-11's section on problems related to employment or unemployment. According to the handbook, doctors can diagnose someone with burnout if they me…
For the retiring dancer, who's about to become executive director of Festival Ballet Providence, it was a definite choice: she got a degree and interned in Boston Ballet's administrative off…
The 57-year-old Gatti, fired from Amsterdam's Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra last year for sexual misconduct, has been named chief conductor of the Bologna-based chamber orchestra founded by …
"Switzerland's highest court has rejected Italy's request for the return of an oil painting attributed by some to Leonardo Da Vinci, ruling no Swiss laws were broken when the work was brough…
Video game culture in general in India is relatively new. So when PUBG (official name PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds) skyrocketed in popularity in the months after its release, a nervous back…
The two-time Pulitzer winner (for Ruined and Sweat) adapted her 2004 play Intimate Apparel into a chamber opera with a score by Ricky Ian Gordon (The Grapes of Wrath). The piece, part of the…
Stressing the enormous financial benefits that the city's festivals bring to Scotland, a member of the Scottish Parliament is arguing that the increasingly frequent, seemingly arbitrary deni…
Just last week, L.A. MoCA announced that it will eliminate admission charges; earlier this year, MoCA Cleveland did the same thing, while Toronto's AGO made itself free for visitors under 25…
Norman Ogue Mustill (1931-2013), longtime friend and collaborator, was a little-known master collagist. " Jan Herman
Rachel Chavkin, director of Hadestown: "This gets now into very old Greek theater, but the idea of catharsis and working through something together and the tragedy as a crucible that the aud…
Emphasis on the one. "For Webster, new nationhood provided unique opportunities for language reform " opportunities that would fade quickly, he warns, if not grabbed before America's languag…
"Ballet might have been considered camp from the start in its original French context," allows Madison Mainwaring. (But then, so could most things at Louis XIV's Versailles.) "If there is a …
Brian Yorkey: "As the Los Angeles Times recently reported, a new study using Centers for Disease Control data claims to show a correlation between 13 Reasons Why and an increase in teen suic…
The original statue, modeled on the Statue of Liberty, was crushed by a tank when the People's Liberation Army wiped out the multi-day protest in Beijing on June 4, 1989. But every so often …
Until it went bankrupt in 2015 after its founder was prosecuted for money laundering and fraud, the French company Aristophil held the world's largest private collection of historic manuscri…
"Under his direction, Random House expanded into the world's largest general-interest publisher, increasing revenue from $40 million in 1966, when he was named president, to more than $800 m…
"The country boasts the highest number of UNESCO world heritage sites in the world, but according to EU statistics is second-last in Europe for public funding of culture. As a consequence, p…
The 71-year-old conductor, formerly music director of the Seattle Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, will take over in Palm Beach this …
"An array of Chinese artists and writers, performers and filmmakers " all up to no good by the standards of Beijing's morality police " [are] hungrily taking in the many crazy, dissolute sub…
"On Monday evening, the French Senate approved the government's Notre-Dame restoration bill " but added a clause that it must be restored to the state it was before the blaze, striking a blo…
Though he won a Pulitzer in 1995 reporting for The Wall Street Journal on the conditions of facing low-wage workers, he was best known for his books combining personal travel and history, of…
This decade has been pretty rough for the company, which lost its home to mold, cycled through executive directors at an alarming rate, and nearly closed for good in 2015. Now Orlando Ballet…
She had plenty of experience in that theatre as an actor, but taking over the artistic directorship after the contentious departure of Emma Rice was quite a challenge: "The big learning curv…