In the past, many actors would list these expenses as miscellaneous itemized deductions on their taxes. But the 2017 tax reform law eliminated that provision, affecting thousands of performi…
Although we're still starved of the bottom end of the list and, disappointingly yet tellingly, any box-office data for its theatrical releases, we can start to see what is and isn't working …
In June, days before the book was expected to go on sale in the United States, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt postponed the publication and recalled copies from retailers, an unusual and costly m…
In a survey conducted by the union " which represents more than 31,000 musicians, 90% of whom are freelancers " 48% of respondents said they had experienced workplace harassment. More than f…
"Whether traditional black boxes or nontraditional spaces, often in residential neighborhoods, Chicago storefront theatre prides itself on more intimacy, as well as edgier material, than an …
"[A neuroscientist,] Dr. Provine embodied the spirit of the popular scientist, one who takes his or her pursuits out of the laboratory and into the public square, from university libraries t…
"We've known for a long time that the Art Institutes lied to students about losing accreditation. Now, we know that the Department of Education misled them, too," said Eric Rothschild, an at…
"The Orlando Ballet signed a contract with the [Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts] on Tuesday morning after protracted negotiations that saw accusations of unreasonable demands ami…
"The effect of this legacy for mixed metaphors and a lack of public funding of the arts is a numbing of artistic innovation and an enlivening of artistic repetition. Companies often opt for …
Phil Chan And Georgina Pazcoguin have become the go-to advisors on this subject since then-NY City Ballet chief Peter Martins asked them to address it in the company's Balanchine Nutcracker.…
Just last week, the French government amended the document indemnifying all loans of artwork for the exhibition to cover Salvator Mundi if it arrives anytime before the end of this year. Wha…
On top of a declining audience and debt, the orchestra had to weather a huge loss of endowment value during the Great Recession, a very bitter 2010-11 strike, and the city of Detroit's bankr…
One of the first things that Kamilah Forbes did when she became executive producer at the Apollo Theater in Harlem was contact Coates, an old friend from college, and ask to adapt his award-…
"The lawsuit [filed in Miami-Dade County] concerns a group of works that Miami dealer Inigo Philbrick and his gallery are allegedly withholding from Fine Art Partners (FAP), a Germany-based …
"Our suspension of disbelief " the very thing that we need for the art form to work " dissipates. The smoothness and clarity of the image doesn't make us feel like we're sitting in a room wi…
Seems having to share the award with Margaret Atwood wasn't so bad after all. "New sales figures from Nielsen BookScan show that, in the five days following its win last Monday, Girl, Woman,…
In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column, I write about Edith Halpert, whose career as a pioneering gallery owner who specialized in modern American art is memorialized in a new exh…
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call "The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Life.…
Gene Kelly and Sugar Ray Robinson dance a duet in the opening sequence of "Dancing: A Man's Game," an episode of Omnibus hosted by Alistair Cooke and originally telecast by NBC on Decembe…
"You are a senior executive of a big company and you know the first rule: authority and responsibility must be congruent and commensurate to each other. If you don't want authority and shoul…
It scarcely seems possible, but I've been listening to this album, which introduced me to the music of Mozart, for fifty years. " Terry Teachout
He was part of a generation of musicians who, aided by the burgeoning recording industry, helped revive Baroque music in concert halls after World War II. That group included Nikolaus Harnon…
Their first two videos, for Wolf Totem, and Yuve Yuve Yu (or How Strange, How Strange) have amassed more than 45m views on YouTube over the last year, while their debut album, The Gereg, ope…
"The Academy's response to any criticism no matter how facile or valid"including accusations of radical leftism, elitism, racism, sexism, and general mustiness"has been to make vague, grand …
"The recent outcry online over the low wages, high stress and professional instability that assistants face " given a voice through the hashtag #PayUpHollywood Â" has served to highlight …