“In what seems to be a growing trend, regional companies are coming together to share stages and expand their audiences. These team-ups often go beyond split bills, with companies swapping choreographers and performing at least one joint work. While the logistics of co-presentations can be complicated — with more dancers to schedule, budgets to balance and creative visions to blend — the benefits can range from bigger box-office returns to lasting relationships for the artists.” – Dance Magazine
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Blurred Lines: How Music Copyright Works Today (An Explainer)
Most music copyright infringement cases are settled out of court with shared writing credit — and royalties — as it’s extremely rare for these types of cases to make it to a jury. When it gets to that point, determining fault can be tricky. – Washington Post
Washington Ballet Executive Director Is Stepping Down
Said the 62-year-old Michael Mael, “I’m at the age where I need some balance. The ballet needs someone who is all in. Somebody who is at every single performance and every single donor event and social event. And that’s not where I am in my life.” – The Washington Post
How Fox News Became The Propaganda Arm Of The Trump White House
Strange as it may seem today, there was a point at which the network was very skeptical of Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency. Now Fox News personalities appear with Trump at political events and give him policy advice, both on and off the air. Jane Mayer does a deep dive into how the change happened, who tried to keep it at bay (Roger Ailes!), and who chose not to stop it. – The New Yorker
Congressman Writes Jeff Bezos, And Five Anti-Vaxxer Docs Get Pulled From Amazon Prime Video
“The anti-vax documentaries had been available in the U.S. as part of Prime Video but as of Friday afternoon were not available to stream. … The move came just hours after U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) publicly announced that he’d sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos expressing concern that Amazon is ‘surfacing and recommending products and content that discourage parents from vaccinating their children.'” – Variety
Museum Of Contemporary Art Cleveland Makes Itself More Inclusive Very Simply: Free Admission
The move is part of the museum’s 50th anniversary “Open House” inclusivity initiative, which also includes “the creation of a diversity-focused curatorial fellowship (the first recipient is LaTanya Autry, who has held curatorial positions at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Mississippi Museum of Art), an engagement-guide apprenticeship program, enhanced onsite programming for families and teens, and the addition of an education specialist.” – ARTnews
Andrea Martin Breaks Four Ribs, Pulls Out Of Taylor Mac’s New Broadway Show
The Tony-winning actress was set to co-star alongside Nathan Lane in Mac’s Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus. (The lead roles are servants who have to haul away the dead bodies and clean up after Titus’s war.) The role has been recast, and the first preview performance has been postponed from March 5 to March 9. – The Hollywood Reporter
It’s Official: There Will Be Two Nobel Prizes In Literature Given This Year
The Swedish Academy has confirmed that a second prize will be awarded this fall to make up for the postponement caused by last year’s messy scandal. (This had been announced at the time, but some doubt had subsequently arisen.) – The Guardian
Man Leaves His Original Picasso Ceramic On Train
“The elderly man was traveling from Kassel to Düsseldorf on February 15 when he switched trains at the city of Hamm and forgot to bring his precious cargo with him.” The ten-inch-tall jug, part of Picasso’s Hibou (Owl) series, is worth more than €10,000. – Deutsche Welle
La Scala Under Fire For Putting Saudi Culture Minister On Board Of Directors
“Alexander Pereira, the Austrian chief executive and artistic director credited with bringing in more sponsors and creating a healthier balance sheet since his appointment in 2014, said the new board member” — Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan Al Saud — “would bring in an additional €15m (£12.8m) over the next five years.” Saudi Arabia is, of course, in bad odor among many in the Western arts world, despite the Kingdom’s efforts to use culture to improve its image. – The Guardian