Not long ago I spoke to the artistic director of a well-regarded theater company somewhere in America that's feeling the pinch.
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The 42-year-old said he was sure the aim of the attack was to "remove me as the Bolshoi's artistic director for a long period, and to damage the reputation of the Bolshoi Ballet".
It is a bumper year for the arts, with the Royal Shakespeare Company's artistic director Michael Boyd made a knight for services to drama, and RSC executive director Vikki Heywood appointed CBE, as they both prepare to stand down in September.
Flint, a harpsichordist and the artistic director of Brandywine Baroque, got a call from a friend telling her that a 1635 instrument built by Ioannes Ruckers, a member of the legendary dynasty of Antwerp makers, was up for auction in Paris and that she should buy it.
"A young playwright has a better chance of getting his work performed here, " says Roger Jenkins, artistic director of Dramaplus Arts, a group dedicated to educating students about theater.
Irish Rep's artistic director Charlotte Moore presents a lively, tongue-in-cheek staging, with the cast near-constantly in motion.
Earlier Randall Kline, SFJazz's founder and executive artistic director, recalled talks a decade ago with the city's symphony and opera about a shared site.
Sheffield's oldest theatre is to get a new artistic director who has previously worked on Broadway and the West End.
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Pontio's artistic director Elen ap Robert said Pontio will provide a venue for a host of artistic performances.
Usually known for classic productions such as The Nutcracker and Swan Lake, The Dream of the Red Chamber is a collaborative effort, with choreography by Wang Xin Peng, artistic director of Germany's Ballet Dortmund, and a musical score written by Oscar-winning composer Michael Nyman and performed by the Hong Kong Sinfonietta.
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Twelve years later, when Monson was working in Los Angeles, she was invited to interview for the role of artistic director: "It was a very non-traditional job interview, " she said.
Miles Hoffman is a violist and the Artistic Director of the American Chamber Players.
Tsiskaridze, incidentally, was also a contender for the artistic director job that Filin got.
It is not certain how Koetsu managed to find a place within this society as one of its principal tastemakers as, in a sense, its artistic director.
Auditions take place in front of orchestra general manager Keith Lau and AYO founder and artistic director, Richard Pontzious, who has a reputation of being as impatient as you-know-who.
Russia's Bolshoi Theatre has appointed a former prima ballerina as a temporary replacement for its artistic director who is recovering from an acid attack.
The film festival is now being run by new artistic director, Chris Fujiwara, who will make a shortlist for the awards but will not pick the winners.
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Donmar Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke will direct The Machine, a new play about chess player Garry Kasparov's battle with the supercomputer Deep Blue, written by Matt Charman.
He also gave his blessing to the museum's naming of a businessman as its director, and some have charged that the museum's artistic integrity has suffered as a result.
"People get bored seeing the same thing all the time and big luxury brands are trying to push the envelope from an artistic standpoint, " said Zan Ludlum, a casting director who has seen modeling opportunities for women on Cohen's blog.
The manager of the Bolshoi Theatre has sparred in a Russian magazine with a star dancer following the acid attack on artistic director Sergei Filin.
Mr Filin, a talented former dancer himself, took over as artistic director in March 2011.
Artistic director Jonathan Church says part of the theatre's success is a direct result of support from the Arts Council and the local authorities a decade ago.
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But the most often-noted difference between the NCCO (founded in 1992) and other U.S. chamber orchestras is that it has had, since 2008, a world-famous violinist as its concertmaster and artistic director.
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Ballet is a world where competition is fierce, and where the artistic director wields considerable influence in making or breaking careers.
More recently he has been working on a screenplay inspired by Tull, with the Octagon's artistic director, David Thacker.
Artistic director Dominic Dromgoole said he wanted to find child actors from across "as a broad a social spectrum as possible".
Meanwhile, National Theatre artistic director Sir Nicholas Hytner, who won two awards - for best director and a special award for his leadership at the NT - said further cuts to theatre budgets made "no economic sense whatsoever".
"This was a very intricate piece of writing which is completely unusual for a neophyte or a beginning playwright, " says Jim Simpson, the founder and artistic director of The Flea Theater, where "The Vandal" is playing.
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